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6:10 PM, Tuesday April 26th 2022

Okay, nice work on the textures. Although I didn't ask for a redo anyways what I am really concerned about is the contour lines. Right now it seems that you are focusing more on how many you want to draw rather than the job each one is meant to accomplish, we have a lot of contours that don't really add a lot of useful information. For each mark you add I want you to go through each step of the ghosting method as described here, in the ghosted lines homework section.

I'll let you move on for now, as we will revisit the contour curves in lesson 4

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8:14 PM, Tuesday April 26th 2022
edited at 8:15 PM, Apr 26th 2022

I understand what you are saying.

Just one thing, I actually use the ghosting method on every line I make.

But, is there something specifically wrong with contour lines?

(Aside from maybe having put too many, of course)

I guess I still don't really understand that part

edited at 8:15 PM, Apr 26th 2022
12:14 AM, Wednesday April 27th 2022
edited at 12:15 AM, Apr 27th 2022

What I meant is that you should not forget the planning phase, most students will only focus on the preparation and execution.

I don't know if I mentioned this in the critique, contour lines are a useful tool to describe how a form sits in 3D space, but they can easily work against us by flattening our drawings and undermining the illusion of solidity that we are looking for. Each one of the exercises in this lesson is only meant to get you to start thinking about how each object that we draw exists in a 3D world, you will start to get better at them with more mileage, and you will become conscious of those things that contradict this illusion and which right now you may not be completely aware of. After writing a bunch of critiques I can tell you that the contour lines is one of the more complicated exercises.

Don't worry, right now we are just planting the seeds, as you move through the lessons your spatial reasoning will improve and you will see things more clearly.

edited at 12:15 AM, Apr 27th 2022
11:07 AM, Wednesday April 27th 2022

I understand what you are saying.

Maybe I did neglect the planning part a little bit.

I will also try to be more aware of the 3D space while I work!

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