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6:54 AM, Sunday July 16th 2023
edited at 6:57 AM, Jul 16th 2023

Hello pizzaplease i'll be critiquing your work today.

first and foremonst congrats on finishing L2!

it was not an easy task that's for sure

without further a do:

Arrows:

great job. these look well done, the spacing between the lines increase as they get closer to the viewer, you are brave enough to overlap the arrows, lines are done confidently. however the overlaps seem somewhat off, it is only required that you draw over the lines that overlap, not the entirity of the arrow, however you did do so by ghosting them and with confidence, well done on that! they are little off but that is nothing you can't iron out in the future through warm ups. overall well done!

sausages. (organic forms):

you were only asked to do 2 pages, one of each, however the submission contains 4 pages total, two of each. 

2 filled pages of the Organic Forms with Contour Lines exercise (1 page of contour ellipses, 1 page of contour curves)

i understand that it might just have been misread  or misinterpreted, but just a reminder, please do not grind these exercises and only do as much as is asked. there are plenty of opportunities to iron out and improve in the future. 

with that out of the way, good job on your sausages, the elipses are drawn through, they touch the sides, a little off, but that is to be expected, your curves hook around the form and you kept to simple forms, well done! however i do see lack of variation with your elipses, there is some variation, but not enough to gain the effect that they are turning in space, as in shown [here](https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/6822fd02.jpg) , you also seem to have done some takebacks with your curves, please refrain from this. as i have previously mentioned again this is to be expected and is something that can be improved with time. i also see that some of the sausages have both ends facing away from the viewer, in cases like this you it is not required that you draw a circle by the end, and there are also sausages with misplaced circles more notably in your second curves pages,[here is a guide as to how to use the circles](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/368871002584907776/867744968432549928/QTEqgJa_1.png?width=618&height=601). but overall you did good on this exercise well done!

texture analysis:

i will start off with another reminder to avoid grinding, if you want to draw more textures you can always partake in the [25 textures challange](https://drawabox.com/lesson/25textures), for this critique i will only be critiquing the page with crumpled paper on it. good job on these! clear transition between light and dark, very dark denses and light sparces! i can see that understand the underlying shapes of the texture and also focus on the cast shadows more so than the outlines. i will comment however that the chrysanthemum "texture" is not exactly a texture, and more of a form, something that will be explored in the next lesson, but nonetheless you do show understanding even on that texture. overall they are very well done, i can see that you took your time and it obviously paid off! great work

disections:

again great job on these! these look great! textures wrap around the form, they break the silhuette, focused more on cast shadows and done so implicitly, no dotting or hatching to achieve a gradient effect, very well done! apologies for i don't think i can read your handwriting and see the comments you made. i do not see anything wrong with these except for the corn texture, highlight and shines are not to be drawn in textures, this is a very minor mistake. overall awesome job! very well done! i can tell you took your time on this.

intersections:

good job! shapes are drawn confidently and equalaterally for the most part. the first page does contain some boxes that are outside of the page, i see that this mistake is not repeated in the next pages so it is an exception, i see that there are a lot of unecessary double takes with the lines, i do however see that the lines are fading and there might be an issue related to the pen that is being used, other than that they are drawn confidently and correctly. i will comment that some of the prism shapes here are a little off, some shading can help, i do also see that there are some mistaked with your intersections, however they are minor and secondary so it's a trivial matter. overall good job.

sausage intersections:

unfortunately these are not very well done, you did well overall the shapes are very solid and they are very visibly supporting each other the curves of your elipses hook and give the form good solidity, your lines are confident and well done, you stuck to simple shapes as well. but there are some major mistakes present, for one your shadows are cast unaturally as is demod [here](https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/516f8d4f.jpg) the shadows of your form are to wrap around the form under it, avoid adding shadows that are unnatural or untied to the form below it. however the second mistake will render a this exercise for a revision as the forms are not drawn through, as just as the previous exercise all the sausage forms here are to be drawn through all the way to the back, the sausages in this submission seem to cut off as they overlap with the sausage under it, which is to not be the case. overall i can see that you have very good understanding on this however this will render a revision.

conclusion:

these are very well done! you clearly took your time to do all these well, your textures are done very well, you also seem to understand the organic intersections despite the mistake. the only few mistakes i can see if with the tendancy to draw over a lines, please refrain from this, only overlap lines that are required to be so, even despite that you still do so with confidence and clearly with ghosting, well done!

Next Steps:

  • 1 page of organic intersection

please be sure to draw through the forms and and cast the shadows on the forms below it as is shown here

i would like to remind you that the overall submission is very well done. please keep it up!

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
edited at 6:57 AM, Jul 16th 2023
5:42 PM, Tuesday July 18th 2023

Hello, thank you for the critique. I have completed another page of organic intersections, hopefully this one better fits the criteria.

https://imgur.com/a/SuX8zL3

7:20 AM, Thursday July 20th 2023

yep a lot better than the previous ones. however the countours are to be drawn even on the forms that lie behind the other forms, but that is just to keep in mind for future reference, at the moment this does serve the purposes of the lesson, to get a feel forms lumping on top of one another, so congrats you may proceed to the next lesson!

Next Steps:

  • move on to L3
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2:27 PM, Thursday July 20th 2023

Thank you very much, I'll make sure to remember to draw all the contours in the future.

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