Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
9:45 PM, Thursday September 24th 2020
Here's my Lesson 2.
I think I really need to work on my confidence. I always warm up with lines and ellipses and do a mostly decent job, but whenever I drew them in, for example, the form intersection pages, I was so nervous about "ruining" the page that many times they ended up looking really bad. Same goes for overimposing lines to add weight. It took a lot of mental effort to fight against the desire to redo the 3rd page of form intersections (which is terrible, ha).
In the texture analysis, I struggled with the crumpled paper because I chose a photo of a crumpled sheet of paper that was overall flat (hope this makes sense). There were larger areas of form shadows, but the cast/occlusion shadows were very very thin. So for the gradient part, I used a crumpled ball of paper as my reference, as it had deeper crevices.
In the Form intersections exercise, there are a few intersections drawn in light blue fineliner. That was mostly to make it clearer for myself that those intersections were happening behind the visible areas of the forms.
Thank you in advance for the critique!