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Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

3:22 PM, Saturday November 20th 2021

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Hi everyone ????

This is my first time submitting my drawabox lesson here, and any form of critique would be helpful for me immensely. (sorry for the bad handwriting beforehand :( )

I was especially having trouble with both of the texture assignments, and I felt like it could be much better than it is.

I was also having trouble with the intersections on the second to last assignment, though I might've gotten the hang of it later on.

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5:58 PM, Saturday November 20th 2021
edited at 6:00 PM, Nov 20th 2021

Hi Paddle !

First, well done with your homeworks, overall it's great ! Your arrows's lines are fluid, your organics forms are consistent (just a little deviation of your ellipses sometimes but it's totally normal to not do it perfectly each time.) Your intersections are great, i got nothing to say about that, it seem that you got it at the end.

What i could say is :

-to pay attention to the chicken scratchs, you got tendencies to do it especially in your dissections & textures analysis. (That's regrettable because your dissections was very convincing this apart)

-to not simplify too much your texture in the process of creation of your gradient. (Look the forms of your rocks given by their cast shadows in your analysis, then the form of your rocks in your gradient)

Next Steps:

If you want to, you should retry one page of dissections confidently. Then after that, do one page of gradient with more explicit textures instead of rumpled paper and ice cream, like bark and a wall of bricks per exemple

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
edited at 6:00 PM, Nov 20th 2021
3:20 AM, Sunday November 21st 2021

Thanks a lot, balzeck!

I did felt that the textures I did were unconvincing because of the scratching, so thanks for clarifying that.

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