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Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

7:10 AM, Sunday September 5th 2021

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Finally, it finished!

It's seems easy when I started this lesson. Then, I get discouraged at Texture Analyses. When I draw complicated texture (tripe) it goes wrong a bit. But I managed to finish it.

The hardest is Dissection. After some textures, I gave up and put my pen down for several weeks. It's hard to pump myself up!

I almost give up again in Intersection, but I managed get through...

Tell me what should I do next honestly, I'll appreciate it. Thanks!

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9:18 AM, Sunday September 5th 2021

Hi, I'll correct your homework of lesson 2. Let's begin

Arrows

While you tried to play on how the arrows move around space (and tried making some complex turns), this seems to have caused you some troubles controlling the smoothness of your line. In the first two images (https://imgur.com/a/cbocoaL), you'll see where these wobbly lines appear. You might need to practice these complex turns on your lines in your warm ups!

Talking about the line weight, check the third image(https://imgur.com/a/cbocoaL). There's a sudden change on the weight. Here's a guide that shows how it should be: https://imgur.com/OHvr7Mb

Organic forms

  • In your organic forms with contour ellipses, I see that there are two circles that marks the beginning of the sausage form. While this isn't bad, maybe staying with just one for this exercise is fine (take this with a grain of salt, of course). Now, an issue that I think is important is the width of your ellipses. Look at this image from the lesson (https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/6822fd02.jpg). You can see how making all the ellipses the same width makes the organic form look a flat.

  • Your organic forms with contour lines have the same issue with the dramatic turn. Check this image (https://imgur.com/a/8EYUNt4). You can see that if we give our lines more dramatic "movement", they look more 3 dimensional.

Texture analysis

For this one, the issues are marked in this post: https://imgur.com/a/4TSX88Q. I liked what you did in the 2nd analysis. You made a good job making that transition.

Dissections

So, the main problem I see with your dissections is that is too explicit. There are too many details, everything is marked in the paper, and that leaves little to the viewer imagination. I made that mistake too, and carried on to lesson 3, where I made too many details with my plants (check for example the asclepiad of this page: https://imgur.com/XkS36Js; there are so many details marked with the plant color that is hard to understand). We have to be implicit when we can, and use only the necessary details to make our drawing understandable. Remember this part of the lesson: https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/2/density

Form intersections

Most intersections look fine, but I noticed some weird ones (look at this post https://imgur.com/a/YA9DOGv)

This imgur post made by optimus has a really good guide about how the different forms intersect with each other: https://m.imgur.com/a/6Inx5Bz

Organic intersections

Check this post where I point out the mistakes https://imgur.com/a/FDu8OZX

There you go.

Next Steps:

Before continuing to the next lesson, I want you to repeat the organic forms exercises (organic forms with contour ellipses/lines), so you can understand better that part of depth and volume. This will be very helpful during your construction exercises.

When you are finished, come back and I'll check the revisions

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
3:30 AM, Monday September 13th 2021

Hi, thanks for reviewing my homework. Here my revision...

https://imgur.com/a/PIDgkwj

Glad you remind me about the line weight line. I often forgot some details after read the instructions. You know, non-fluent english speaker problem.

It's hard to observe the complex textures. Even more, in dissections. It's hard to apply texture to round surface + use implicit transition.

I have no idea how to do the intersection. You know, I put random line to do intersection, then I just observe how that line make the intersection. I asked to the Discord's community, they gave me suggestion to imagine the object was a plane. But it's still hard!

Anyway, I noted your critique and I'll use them in next warm up. Thanks!

7:22 AM, Tuesday September 14th 2021

Ok, so what I'm seeing now in your organic forms with ellipse is that your ellipses aren't following your minor axis, making some of them very stiff (and there are some where the line flow is too stiff, there's barely any movement). Also, the organic forms are looking deformed (https://imgur.com/a/5PYFGSw). Remember, we want to achieve something like this: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/0128c0e3.jpg

Comparing your organic forms with contour ellipses with the ones with contour lines, I can see that the last ones have a more organic feeling. Try to achieve this with your organic forms with contour ellipses next time.

Next Steps:

I'll mark the lesson as complete. However, I strongly recommend you to be aware of the mistakes pointed out. This is because if you don't correct this, you'll have troubles trying to do lessons 4 and 5, where organic forms are present.

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