Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
8:15 AM, Wednesday January 4th 2023
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6:40 PM, Monday January 9th 2023
Hello PETROS_PATAHAKAN, I'll be looking at your submission today:
Starting off in the arrows section your lines are looking a bit wobbly, make sure you ghost enough before making the mark and draw through your shoulder. You're doing a good job maintaining a consistent width as your arrows widen while moving closer to the viewer. It's good to see that you're trying to implement line weight, just remember that you want to keep your applications subtle and not use a clean-up pass as mentioned here.
Moving into the organic forms with contours exercise some of your forms are getting a bit too complex. We want to create our forms with both ends being the same size and to avoid any pinching, bloating, or stretching along the form's length. Some of your line work here shows a lack of confidence, remember that our first priority is that we want all of our linework/ellipses/contours to be drawn confidently and mileage will improve our accuracy. You have a few ellipses that go beyond 2-3 passes, stick to just 2-3 otherwise it will look messy.
In the texture exercises you're doing a great focusing on the cast shadows and telling the information of said texture moving from dark to light. Not much to say here except good-job.
For form intersections it is overall lookinig pretty solid, a few wobbles and couple clean-up passes but nothing that mileage won't fix.
And finally the organic intersections exercise you show that you need a bit more time becoming comfortable with thinking of how these forms interact in 3D space and how they'd wrap around one another. Some sausage forms are also just getting a bit too complex like in your organic forms with contours exercises. Your shadows are hugging the form creating them rather than being cast on to another surface believably.
Final thoughts this was a solid submission, while you may have some things to work on I have no doubt you will improve with more mileage. I'll be marking your submission as complete and move you on to the next lesson.
Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups!
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4:25 PM, Friday January 20th 2023
Hello, ATURIA24, thank you for the critique. I really appreciate it. I'm going to pay more attention to line confidence and organic dissections exercise
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