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Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

1:18 AM, Monday March 2nd 2026

Lesson 2 - Google Drive

Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1c6y_peOUARr7yV_qxFXS-5cCIrdYsN2p?usp=drive_link

[Note: This homework was already submitted on one of duplicate accounts on accident and was already critiqued by Donhitme. If you guys still one to critique this one, feel free to do so. I just want to repost this on my main one for completion's sake. Plus, the dupe account is already being removed so don't bother with that one.]

I'm done with Lesson 2 RAAAAH!

But seriously, textures really gave me a hard time (fun fact, it took me two months to finish those ;-;).

A question though: in the texture exercises, how do you create your textures? When I was doing my dissections, there were times when the reference exactly matched how I wanted to draw a particular form (angled correctly, light placed where I wanted it to be, etc.); I simply needed to adjust how my cast shadows is projected onto the sausages. Sometimes, I would try to imagine how that form rotates in space, and place them where I needed them to be. Is this considered as creating textures?

And another thing: does drawing the form shadows forbidden in doing these exercises? Do I need to just focus on the cast shadows? 'Cuz I may have drawn both of them at the same time, just a heads up. Drawing only the cast shadows looked "wrong" to me because I can't see the implied forms.

That's all. Hope you can help me out here. Thank you! :)

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