Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
6:36 PM, Saturday November 8th 2025
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Hello! I am Susiani and I am going to review your lesson two homework. (English is not my first language, excuse my bad grammar)
Arrows:
Your lines on the arrows seem to be confident, and ghosted. They do howewer appear kind of chiken scratchy/uneven. I suspect that the pen your using is low on ink. I recommend getting a new one for the purposes of this course. You are not repeating lines even when they're wrong, and mistakes is and should be ignored. Your arrows get bigger and bigger as they go towards the viewer. Both in size and in the spacing between each fold. The hatching seem to be rushed. Make sure to take your time and connect the shape. The rest of the lineweight is fine, but remember that lineweight should only be added to the part that overlaps, and it is not needed to add lineweight to the full line.
Organic form: Your ellipses and lines are quite uneven and have some wiggle to them. Make sure that you are drawing from your sholder an that you are applying the ghosting method. Your ellipses are however drawn through 2-3 times. Your is inconsistently following the simple form they need to be. Remember that they should be 2 identical balls connected by a tube of consistent width: 1. https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/simplesausage. You can start ghosting them, just keep in mind that some students get worse results when they ghost them, so it might happen for you as well. You can also start with a few dots the general sausage shape, so when you ghost you have a few guidelines that can help you not to lose track of the ghosting. I see some shift in your deegres but they do mostly look quite static. Ty making the shift more dramatic. 1. https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/6822fd02.jpg. This shouldn't happen even if the sausage is straight,even thought I think you got that, here's an example of it with a top and a front view:1. https://imgur.com/rXLBxSg. A few of your ellipses are not touching the boundaries, or getting out of them. 1. https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/60054aa2.jpg1. This can be caused by rushing or not ghosting enough, that to might help.
Texture analysis: You seem like you are drawing cast shadow shapes and not lines. However in the middle one there is something that looks a little like random dost. if that was not a part of the original tecture then that is not recommended. 1. In the texture analysis exercise only cast shadow shapes should be drawn, there should not be any kind of form shading: Here is explained the difference between form shadows and cast shadows: https://imgur.com/L21Mqxh. 1. And when the shadows are attempted, it's better to approach them like this, because they force you to think in shapes instead of lines:. https://i.imgur.com/M9JJfr4.png. You should not be doing dotting or any kind of hatching to achieve transition in this exricise. You re doing a seamless transition on the gradients, he black bar on the left and the white bar on the right are really hard to spot because the transition is smooth enough. All your marks seem to be done purposefully.
Dissections: You are wraping your textures around your forms. You are breaking the silhouette. Great!
Form intercections: You are in general applying the source material from the box challage, but your convergences have gotten so vauge that they are invisable. Try making them a litle more converging to make sure you understand that. Your forms on the picture resemble that they share the same scene. Your forms have consistent foreshortening. The intersections, is secondary, and you don't have to worry much about them. I am therefore not going to critique those.
Organic intersections: Uncomfortable's demo clears up a lot of the issues on this one: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgcmB26CHLY&feature=youtu.be. You are almost drawing all of your forms simple, but there is a few exeptions. On this exercise the forms should be kept simple, just like in the previous organic forms exercises. Your follow the form of object they're being casted on. Not much mistakes on the lines, except for mabye the form itself. You are not drawing through forms. You should always draw through forms, just like in the form intersections exercise.Your forms do look quite stable, but you could benefit from thinking about them like they're water baloons. Try to think about how they would fall on top of the other forms, drawing their final positions.
But in general, the whole drawing looks solid as a whole.
Next Steps:
Move onto lesson 3, but keep working on these in your warmups and keep in mind what I hvae mentiond while doing so. Congrats!
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