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11:54 PM, Sunday May 3rd 2020

ARROWS

Your arrows look good. You got pretty confident lines, the only suggestion would be for you to try some more "extreme" perspective distortions with your arrows coming from far away and getting closer. But overall it looks great.

ORGANIC FORMS

The sausages look mostly good, but you got wobbly ellipses. Remember that for these exercises is more important to get confident lines and ellipses than wobbly ones. Even if the wobbly ellipses are very accurate, stay with the ellipses with confident smooth and even flow. Also a faw sausages are a bit bulky looking, so remember to keep the sausages with simple shapes, like it was explained [here].(https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/0128c0e3.jpg)

TEXTURES

The textures looks OK. Remember for the texture exercises you should draw mostly cast shadows and not contours. You should look a lot to the references before making any mark copying it to the paper.

FORM INSTERSECTIONS

Good job on those, you got the lines where the forms intersect pretty well. The observation goes for your wobbly ellipses and spherical shapes, so try to ghost more you ellipses before drawing on paper and again remember to keep them confident.

ORGANIC INTERSECTIONS

Again you did a good job on those. They look believable as 3d forms interacting together. Remember that you can increase the line weight to clarify overlaps too.

Next Steps:

I want to see

  • 2 pages of organic forms with contour ellipses

Remember on keeping your ellipses confident and the "sausage" shape (a tube with spheres at the edges). Good luck.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
8:39 AM, Monday May 4th 2020

Hello!

Thank you for your critique on my outputs!

Here's my submission for the reiterations of Lesson 2: https://imgur.com/a/JrZhqB6

I ghosted the ellipses before putting marks on the page and I'm curious to know if I did well.

2:50 PM, Monday May 4th 2020

Good job! Your ellipses looks a lot more confident now. Remember that confidence is more important than accuracy, you can lose a bit of accuracy to get more confident ellipses.

Also I saw an improvement on your oraganic forms, but you have a few bulging sausages, look for keeping the sausages simple, (a tube with spheres at the edges). But overall the organic forms are good and you got the right shape for most of them.

Next Steps:

Congratulations for finishing lesson 2!

Good luck for lesson 3 now!

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4:03 AM, Tuesday May 5th 2020

I'll take note of these! Thank you!

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