For me this lesson was specially hard, i was not used to work with a fineliner, exercises like organic arrows were at first really hard (as in the album) but when i try them again after other exercises they turn way better. Making textures was not that hard but making them vanish and become subtle was tricky for me, and form intersection was hard in every way, but in the end i think every exercise was really useful
First of all congragulations on finishing lesson 2. I'm glad that you ind the exercises helpful. Keep up the good work!
On organic arrows, I don't think you're as bad as you think. Maybe perspective could be more dramatic but they seem to do the trick. Only big problem here is the line quality - your lines look a bit chicken scrath-y. And I see this issue on the homeworks after the arrows. My suggestion is that don't try to control lines as you're drawing, do some rounds of ghosting and then draw with confidence from your shoulder. And you'll be good to go.
On organic forms with ellipses, you mostly got them correctly. Only thing to improve on is ellipse allignment, as I think they look arbitrarily placed here and there. Other than that, ellipses look crisp and mostly snug. On organic forms with lines however, line quality issue comes again and as you can see, even though you're contour lines are placed correctly, they don't look like surface of an object. They just look like lines. Just remember to be confident with your lines and this issue will be solved.
Your texture analysis looks pretty good. You've got density mostly right, despite on some textures transition looks a bit abrupt. But you'll get over that as you move on. On dissections, I think there are a lot more to improve on. You should work on wrapping textures around round forms, as it seems like you put texture on a flat surface in your work. Textures on such objects will go along the contour lines of the form. So they will go around, not in a straight line. Also putting some density around the edges will help you get that illusion.
Your form intersection work looks pretty good. Your line quality looks a lot better in both intersection homeworks than the first to homeworks. And you tried to wrap the cast shadow around the form underneath, which is very good. But maybe you could wrap them around a bit better to improve the illusion.
Overall, I think you did a pretty good job. There are things to improve, I'm sure you'll fix those issues in the lessons to come. Good luck with 250 box challenge!!
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Be confident with your lines, and wrap textures around forms. Other than that, keep up the good work!!
Thx, i'll keep in mind about line quality, specially with a fineliner im finding a little hard to make fast smooth lines, so i tend to work slower, i'll try my best to fix it, last lesson they already recommend me 250 box challenge, so i already did it, should i move to lesson 3, retry lesson 2 or some challenge?
You can move onto lesson 3, but get a warm up routine that can help you improve. Your lines better at times, so I think you are capable and can move on. I don't think a whole redo is necessary.
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