Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

9:40 AM, Sunday June 20th 2021

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Thanks in advance for spending time on my work for critique. I gave my best in it. I used fountain pen only in texture analysis and dissections as my fineliners was out of ink and I didn't got chance to buy fineliner due to the lockdown in my region at that time.

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7:15 AM, Tuesday June 29th 2021

Hey Nagasaravanan! Great job on finishing Lesson 2!

One thing I noticed with your arrows assignment is a lot of them seem to stay on the same flat plane as the page. There isn't really a good way to practice this outside of just incorporating them into your warm ups. Your second page of arrows already shows a lot of improvement with showing dimensionality.

With your organic sausage forms I noticed your contours and ellipses well drawn but they are of consistent width throughout the sausage. The widths of the sausages should get wider or narrower depending on the perspective of the sausage in relation to the viewer.

Good job with your textures assignment. My only critique with them is the textures they sometimes don't wrap around the organic forms. This can be seen with the hall cracks and corn textures. A good example of the textures wrapping around the organic forms is the croc skin texture you did. It looks really good.

Good job with the intersecting forms assignment. This was was a brain melter for me and I dont see anything you can improve here outside of just practice. With the organic intersections, I think some of those cast shadows would wrap lower down the forms of the sausages. Otherwise, you did a really good job with line confidence and shading.

I think you are ready for the next lesson!

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Great job! Move on to Lesson 3!

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5:51 AM, Thursday July 1st 2021

Thank you for spending time on my work for critique. I will try my best to rectify the mistakes I made in the further lessons.

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