Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
7:44 PM, Wednesday November 26th 2025
Spent way too long on the textures, but finally managed to pull through. \o/
Hello! I am Susiani and I am going to review your lesson two homework.
Arrows: Your lines on the arrows are mostly confident, but some show some wiggle. Remember to always ghost through your lines. Your lines are not being repeated even if they're wrong, and if there is a mistake you ignore it, which is good. Your arrows get bigger and bigger as they go towards the viewer in size, but not quite the spacing between each fold. Heres what I mean:https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/011d064f.jpg Focus on that the next time.
The lineweight on your arrows, is only done with 1 line, and not overdone.
Your lineweight is done with confident, ghosted lines. Tracing over the previous line slowly is a mistake, but that does not seem to be a problem in your line weight.
Your lineweight is only be added to the part that overlaps as well. That is great, since it is not needed to add lineweight to the full line
Organic form: Your lines are drawn confidently, but not all your ellipses. They seem to have some wiggle to them. Make sure to apply ghosting method, drawing from shoulder. The ellipses are however drawn through 2-3 times. You should aim for 2, but it is fine for now.
Your simple shapes are not regulary following the simple form they need to be; they should be 2 identical balls connected by a tube of consistent width: 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. Another thing that can help is to plot 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. Your degrees of the ellipses and contours don't change, they stay quite static. Try having more shift in degrees. https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/6822fd02.jpg. Heres another example on how even if it where straight it would still have quite a noticabe deegre shift: 1. https://imgur.com/rXLBxSg
You are hooking your contors greatly.
Your minor axis line could have been drawn more confidently and ellipses more aligned: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/4d7871e1.jpg1.
Your ellipses are in general touching the boundaries, and not getting out of them.
Texture analysis: You are only drawing drawing cast shadow shapes and not lines. Great!You are not doing dotting or any kind of hatching to achieve transition. Your in general doing a seamless transition on the gradients. All marks on this exercise seem have been done purposefully, and by looking at the reference, no scribbling or doing non planned marks.
Dissections: You are wrapping the textures around the form and breaking the silhouette.
Form intercections: You are following everything that is explained on the box challenge. All the forms on the picture seem to resemble that they share the same scene. The forms have consistent foreshortening. You are keeping your forms equilateral and focus only shallow foreshortening. About the intersections, as it's secondary, you don't have to worry much about them. They will come later, this is only a introduction.
Organic intersections: You are not drawing simple forms. On this exercise the forms should be kept simple, just like in the previous organic forms exercises. 2 identical balls connected by a tube of consistent width. Your shadows follow the form of object they're being casted on. Remember to hook your contors. Your not drawing through forms. You should always draw through forms, just like in the form intersections exercise. Not all your forms are stable. Look at this example: https://i.imgur.com/KJQhpn8.png. The forms should not be floating or non supported sausages, that look like they're about to fall. All of them should be supported. A good thing to do is to think of them as if they're water baloons, and try to think about how they would fall on top of the other forms, drawing their final positions.
Next Steps:
Go to lesson 3. Work on the exricises in your futere warm ups and focus on what I pointed out on each. Congratulations!
Thank you so much for the detailed (and fast!) analysis. I agree with most of your points.
The sausages are not even in width, mostly because I didn't manage to do that while also drawing them smoothly and not because I didn't want them to be... I'll try your suggestion with ghosting them with dots, thanks for the idea.
Looking forward to lesson 3 :)
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