Hi Boxrouser, i will take on your offer then. :)
I wish to know what you wrote on those two Dissection pages.
I'm aware that i chiefly used outline instead of cast shadow. Plus I find it very difficult to interpret the texture accurately when bright colors are involved.
It's perfectly normal to be subpar at texture now, in a way, it's a brand new way of seeing the world that, as Uncomfortable said, requires that we go against habit and pay attention to details that would have been discarded otherwise. What matters is that you try doing things the "right" way even if you know they won't come out pretty. When we strive for beauty in these exercises, we undermine learning by just picking the same old techiques that are guaranteed to look better (for now) rather than the novel methods we are (currently) uncomfortable with.
So yeah, an ugly exercise where you took pains to understand a new concept is better than a pretty one that is just more of the same.
On the first one I wrote:
Left red text: "It's fine to leave some detail to the viewer's imagination (although I certainly exaggerated \[referring to how I hid some of your texture to show my point\])"
Right Text: "Your texture are good (green). But they often leave little room for the eye to rest (red)"Second one:
Red text: "I basically took your texture and shortened the shadow at the tips so only the bigger (deeper) creases are shown.
Orange text: Compare with yours, which is cleaner? (referring to the alterations I performed on the botom right texture).
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