Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
1:12 AM, Saturday July 30th 2022
Finally finish lesson 2!!! I can't wait to be critiqued!
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8:26 AM, Sunday September 25th 2022
Honestly I don't have much to say.
your arrows look good. Contour lines look good. Your texture organic forms you implicitely drew them. Just draw the cast shadows. Like you did with your texture analysis.
You skimmed out on a lot of your form intersections. Think about how the forms would intersect and where they would intersect and if you drew along the intersection what it would look like.
Next Steps:
1 page of Dissections. Draw the cast shadows not the outline.
2 pages of form intersections. Go through the lesson material again. The video the written article all of it. And really try to push yourself to do harder intersections. It might not look good but you'll learn a lot from it. Trust me .
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