Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

10:17 AM, Tuesday December 31st 2024

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11:30 AM, Saturday January 4th 2025

Hello Yadav106, Congratulations on finishing lesson 2. I'll be giving you feedback, pointing out mistakes you've made as well as thing you did good.

Organic arrows

  • The arrows are drawn with one continuous stroke nicely. It is at times a bit wobbly however. This should improve with practice. Just remember to always use the ghosting method until you are confident the line will come out properly.

  • This also goes for the added line thickness and shading. Use the ghosting method for every single line. Also the shading lines should go parallel to the line connecting the two strokes of the ribbon like you did in the top left arrow of the first page, not along the flow of the ribbon like you did in the bottom right arrow of the first page.

  • The arrows compress nicely. They get gradually smaller towards the back.

Organic intersections

  • The lines look good. The sausage shapes are drawn in one continuous stroke and the ellipses are drawn through multiple times.

  • Some of the sausage shapes taper off to the back. In this exercise we want them to have a consistent width over the whole length. You could try ghosting these shapes if you haven's already. And if that doesn't work try to plot with a few dots the general sausage shape, so when they ghost they have a few guidelines.

  • Most of the ellipses have a very similar degree of rotation like this. Try to vary this a bit more.

Texture analysis

  • There is a nice gradient from dark to light. In the scales gradient the black bar on the left is very sudden. Otherwise this looks good.

Dissections

  • The dissections look very good. The textures follow the shape of the sausage nicely and you make good use of the silhouette to show your texture.

Form intersections

  • Your linework on the base shapes looks good.

  • The added lineweight and hatching have the same problem as they did in the arrows exercise. The lineweight exists from multiple smaller lines. Just like all other lines place these as one confident stroke.

  • You have placed the hatching on multiple faces of the same shape and in multiple directions. Hatching works best if you add it to only one face per object and in the same direction. Imagine a light source shining on your objects and add hatching only on the opposite side of that.

  • I don't see major mistakes in the intersections. You look like you have a good understanding in how shapes interact in 3D space.

Organic intersections

  • Some of the ends of the sausage shapes seem to be floating. A good thing to do is to think of them as if they're water balloons, and try to think about how they would fall on top of the other forms, drawing their final positions.

  • There is the same issue with the added lineweight as I mentioned before.

  • The shadows look good though. They follow the form of the object they're being casted on nicely.

Overall very nice work. You are ready to continue with lesson 3.

Next Steps:

  • Continue with lesson 3
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2:09 PM, Saturday January 4th 2025

Thanks for the critique Fable!!!

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