Hello, I’ll be doing your critique today!
Organic Arrows
Extremely nice sense of perspective and depth; in some of the arrows you’ve drawn the hatched lines on the outside, we’re trying to indicate a shadow that helps add to the depth like so:
https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/f875589f.jpg
Organic forms with contour lines
The ellipses are drawn well and they curve along with the sausage well. But they don’t rotate like I’d expect them to. This might help:
https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/dc19ce85.jpg
Remember that the angle of the ellipse changes depending on the view:
https://i.imgur.com/rXLBxSg.png
The contours have less of an issue with the angles but can be improved still.
Texture
Good analysis, I the last analysis the darkness is starting from left, yet the texture is darkening on the right, but it's fine.
Dissections
Good textures, they wrap around the form well and break the silhouette well.
Form Intersections
It seems like you understand the concept, but some of them (mainly the third page) don’t have the intersections drawn on them.
Organic Intersections
Great sausages, they feel almost real on the first page! Nice shadows on the first page, they seem a little too thin on the second page though.
I hope this helped!
Next Steps:
Redo the 2 pages of Organic Forms with Contour lines (keep the angles in mind and ghost the lines until you are ready)
Complete the missing intersections on the Form Intersections exercise
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
On the flipside, they tend to be on the cheaper side of things, so if you're just getting started (beginners tend to have poor pressure control), you're probably going to destroy a few pens - going cheaper in that case is not a bad idea.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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