Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

12:50 PM, Wednesday April 17th 2024

Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction - Homework - Album on Imgur

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Roses are red

Violets are blue

Textures were a time sink

And the intersections were too

Thank you for having a look at my work.

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5:57 PM, Wednesday April 17th 2024

Hello!

You've done a wonderful job here, that said I noticed a few places where you could improve.

For your organic arrows, I noticed that on your first page, you seemed to struggle a bit with applying perspective, but you showed growth on the second page, I believe you have a good grasp on this but I suggest practicing these in your warm-ups to help perfect your grasp of this concept. I also noticed some hesitation in your line when forming the arrowhead, so also focus on maintaining a confident line even when making smaller strokes.

When it comes to your organic forms I see two issues which if not dealt with can cause problems in later lessons. The first is that you seemed to struggle to keep your forms sausage-shaped, keep in mind the forms should be essentially two balls with a tube connecting them, and so as they bend they should maintain a similar width and not be too pointed at the end as this changes it form a sausage to an elongated ellipse.

https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/simplesausage

You also did not play much with the perspective of the Forms, on the second page in the bottom right seems to be your main example of using the contour curves or the ellipses to do so.

https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/ellipses

On the contour curves, you also seemed to struggle to round off the curve as it went away from you, as they seemed to hook in like the back of the form was flat. inverting a common mistake of making them too shallow on the back instead of the common issue of them being shallow at the front

https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/shallow

Getting a handle on these factors is essential in Lesson 4 and very helpful in Lesson 3, so I would like for you to have a better grasp of these before moving on.

You handled the texture homework Wonderfully! The only suggestion I have is to remember to try and not cut into your base shape too much, we want to build up onto what we have already solved, and you only did so rarely (Strawberry on page 1 & Peanut Shell on page 2) but I felt it was still worth mentioning. On the note of the strawberries, you seemed a bit hesitant to put down extra ink and left it feeling a bit vague, in all other textures it was clear what you were drawing even without a label because you made great use of your ink to add a good amount of darkness, but in this case it felt a bit wanting. I don't have your reference but I imagine it was quite well-lit and lacking shadow so please remember that even small forms such as the seed will cast a shadow sometimes such as the extreme angles of this form the shadows will even be comparatively large.

Your form intersections were very well done, my only advice is to practice your ellipsis to try and tighten them up so that they have fewer stay lines as those can mess you up in later lessons. However, this will come in time so please keep practicing them in your warm-ups to help you get there quicker.

For your organic intersections, I noticed some issues with the shadows

https://imgur.com/a/iBLUjIZ

Blue arrows are areas that should have shadows but currently do not. 

The green arrow is a place where the shadow could have been extended but was not needed.

Purple arrows are places I felt like you struggled to curve the shadow around the form, as the shadows seemed to almost cut into whatever they were cast upon making them look flat.

Overall did a stellar job! I am going to suggest some revisions to make sure you have a better grasp on some of this, but I can already see that you're grasping this very well and revision would be a great way for you to hone what you already have. Great job, I hope you have a great day!

Next Steps:

I suggest before moving on do the fallowign while paying attention to the issues I noted above.

  • 1 Page of

    • half organic forms with contour ellipses

    • and half organic forms with contour curves

  • 1 page of Organic Intersections

Good luck!!

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
7:21 PM, Sunday April 21st 2024

Hi LuminusRed, first of all I'd like to thank you for your detailed critique!

I wouldn't have spotted these mistakes by myself and appreciate that you clarified them like the organic intersections exercise.

This link will take you to the revisions:

https://imgur.com/a/oYgYwtK

Kind regards

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