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5:53 AM, Saturday November 27th 2021
Hi Daniboyy,
First off. Great job on making the effort to work through lesson 2 of this course. It took me a long time to get back to it after I hit the intersections exercise and was overwhelmed by it. Look like you are missing a page of dissections, and also I'm not seeing the intersections in your album.
If you are like me and were overwhelmed by that part. I'd say just muscle through it and sleep on it and trying it again, rinse and repeat as necessary until it at least sort of starts to make sense. I had to try out a lot of lines and messed up a lot before I started to feel like I was seeing it and my intersections were making sense.
As far as the arrows go. They don't look too bad, but they are looking a little flat in that they don't seem to be receding into the background/popping into the foreground much. Try to imagine the space as you draw. If you need some technical assistance in how to do it, start with some smaller tighter curves before expanding into looser larger curves and draw your second line so that it runs closer to your initial line on the tighter small end and further away gradually as you get to the larger looser end. Does that make sense?
Your sausages of both varieties look fine to me. I had trouble and still do with keeping the curve on the ends properly rounded, it looks like you are actually a lot better on that.
Your texture study and dissections need work. I would really recommend that you go back to the videos and text on texture and watch it again and try redoing the texture study following the principals he lays out. I'm not really seeing the transition from dark to light and there is some outlining going on that doesn't look very real. It might help to set up some dramatic light using a desk lamp on something with texture and looking at how it transitions, or maybe you can find some images like that online.
Next Steps:
Try another page of arrows with my above suggestions.
Redo the Texture Study after rewatching the video and then do another page of dissections once you are fairly confident that you are getting the hang of texture from the texture study.
Either post the missing intersections here if you've already done them and just forgot to include, or go ahead and give those a try and post what you end up with. No need to be embarrassed, the intersections are really really hard to get the hang of.
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