Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
5:15 PM, Monday August 31st 2020
Hello this is my assignment for the second lesson.
I hope i did ok.
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3:00 PM, Friday September 11th 2020
Rewriting this again because the critique got lost ;(
Arrows
A few things:
-Your arrows don't have enough folds, try to go for at least 3 or 4 like in this example, otherwise showing depth gets harder.
Some of your arrows get too complex with the twists and all that, try to keep them more simple, like in the arrows in the examples.
-Hatching lines and lineweight lines are too wobbly. Just like with every line, draw them with ghosting and focusing confidence over accuracy. For lineweight lines add them just once with a single superimposed line.
-Keep in mind as well that the arrow should compress as it gets farther away from the viewer as in this example
Organic forms
Lines, contour lines and ellipses are pretty confident and good, but a few things:
-You aren't adhering to the simple forms you should be aiming for:
-Ellipses don't change their degree. Keep in mind that they should change even if the sausage is completely straight, as shown here..
Textures
Mainly you're on the right track, but you've got some shapes that aren't completely filled with black and have sharp edges, as well as some in which you rely a lot on lines. This hints me that you might be rushing the exercise, so don't forget to take as much time as you need. If you feel you're starting to rush take a break.
Make sure you fill the shadow shapes with complete black and there aren't white dots left, and to solve the relying on lines for thing approach drawing all shadow shapes like this
For the gradients, you're having the transition from black too sudden, try to make it more seamless in future tries.
On dissections you're mainly in the right track as well, just be careful with the relying on lines to outline forms part. As always, only draw shadows, not forms.
Form intersections
A few things:
-Don't use more than one pen on a drawing. If you start with a fineliner then finish with that fineliner, don't add other colors or anything.
-Stick to the forms mentioned on the exercise's instructions, box, cylinders, spheres, cones and pyramids. Don't draw anything else (as your curved cone things or your squashed spheres).
-Always draw through your forms, there are a few places where you don't draw through your cylinders for example.
-Stick to drawing equilateral forms as explained in this section.
-Here as well, when adding lineweight do it with a single line.
Organic intersections
Feels pretty solid in general, good job!
A few things here too:
-You have a tendency to stick the shadows to the forms that are casting it in some places, careful with that.
-You aren't drawing through your forms in some places, so don't forget to always do it.
-And lastly, make sure you stick to simple forms here as well too. It's better here than on the organic forms exercises, but you still have some forms that end up being a bit complex.
Before moving on I want to see a page of arrows, 1 page of organic forms with contour ellipses, 1 page of organic forms with contour curves, and 1 page of form intersections. Make sure you pay attention to the feedback I gave you, and reread the video demos and text explanations on the website if you feel you need it. Good luck and keep it up!
Next Steps:
1 page of arrows
1 page of organic forms with contour curves
1 page of organic forms with contour ellipses
1 page of form intersections
3:56 PM, Friday September 11th 2020
Lmao i feel you on the closing a written review.
Thanks for the review, will continue doing the extra assigned pages :D.
4:55 PM, Saturday September 19th 2020
http://imgur.com/gallery/g7bFNnc
Finished the assigned work. Hope it's well done :)
4:48 PM, Monday September 21st 2020
Arrows are looking better now, though they have the problem that the space between the arrows isn't compressing. The space between the arrows needs to grow exponentially, so make sure you aim for it in next tries.
For the sausages, they are looking better too, but you still have trouble adhering to the simple form we're aiming for. In general you tend to make one bigger than the other, here are 2 corrections so you see what I'm talking about .
Lastly for the form intersections, you're still not doing equilateral forms. When I say equilateral forms, I'm talking about forms that are the same size on each direction. In boxes for example, that would mean they have to be cubes, and they can't be long boxes like some of the ones you did.
You're are also doing pretty extreme convergences on the forms, like it's said on the section I mentioned on the critique.
In this exercise you should do have the vanishing points pretty far away so the convergence is shallow (in yours some of them are in the page).
Good job overall, you've followed most of what I said so I'm marking this as complete. Good luck on lesson 3 and keep it up!
Next Steps:
Lesson 3
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