Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
1:28 PM, Saturday August 14th 2021
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2:11 PM, Monday August 16th 2021
Hello,
good job completing the lesson! most exercises are done well, here's critique:
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for Arrows I see a lot of chicken scratching (confidence >> accuracy in drawabox ), also there's not much of them you could have done more - I suggest doing some confident arrows
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organic ellipses/curves - I see some lacking line confidence in some of them once again, also your sausage hardly rotate in 3d space - most ellipses/curves have same degree which while possible hardly happens in real life (look up some slinky photos), I suggest to try contours exercise with varying ellipses degrees
Good luck in your art journey!
Next Steps:
focus more on exercises I mentioned in your warmups and move on to Lesson 3
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