Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
5:21 PM, Friday July 29th 2022
Here's all of my work for Lesson 2! Any feedback or critique is greatly appreciated, thanks! (:
Hello, I'll be critiquing your lesson 2 work
Organic Arrows
-Starting off with organic arrows, your linework looks very confident and you did well with capturing the flow of the arrows. You also did nicely with compressing the arrows as they moved further away in perspective, but I would like to mention one thing with the lineweight. You added lineweight to particularly long marks which caused you to lose a bit of control with the line. It would be better to try and limit lineweight only to parts that are overlapping. Otherwise, these look very well.
Organic forms with Contours
-Your organic forms are turning out well here, but I would like to mention a few things. First off, the forms look a bit uneven and they should be rather rounded at each end and a consistent width throughout.
Another thing that I noticed is the degree shifts in the ellipses and contour lines. You did well with wrapping and keeping the shapes inside of the circle, however they should change in degree a little bit more. Sometimes adding a little bit less of contour lines/ellipses and making sure you think about how the marks will convey your forms will help improvement.
Textures
-Moving on to texture analysis, your work is looking great and you did well with making bold marks to convey the textures. Another great thing here is the transitions from bold to sparse.
-Same thing with the dissections, your work is turning out nicely and you have dynamic results with the textures. Your sausage forms do seem to have more improvement and solidity as well.
Form intersections
-Your form intersections are turning out great and I also see that you have limited the lineweight only to certain overlapping areas. You are also doing well with the intersections, but don't worry if you don't fully grasp the concept just yet. Anything here will be mentioned in later lessons.
Organic intersections
-Finishing up with the organic inetrsections, your forms are looking more rounded and they seem to be wrapping around believably along with your good usage of cast shadows. One last thing I would mention here is to make your shapes a bit more equally sized.
Alrighty, I believe I covered everything here and I will go ahead and mark your lesson as complete :)
Next Steps:
Lesson 3
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