Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
4:46 PM, Wednesday September 29th 2021
Started School so i am going a little slower
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8:05 PM, Saturday October 9th 2021
Hey! I'll be reviewing your homework today.
First of all, congrats on finishing all the exercises!
Arrows
Your arrows are pretty good! The lines are confident and smooth and there's no repetition, the arrows have a sense of movement, but most of them are not compressing much to give the perspective effect we are looking for, so try to make the spacing between the lines bigger/smaller as the move towards/farther away form the viewer, like this
https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/011d064f.jpg
**Organic forms***
You did a great job on this one, your shapes are simple as they should be, the ellipses are drawn through, they change their degrees according to the direction of the shape, they are aligned with the axis lines and are inside the shape, also your contours are hooked, so well done!
Texture analysis
I'm not sure if you forgot to do this one or just didn't do, if it's the later i think you should give it a try, because it's an important exercise.
Dissections
You did a great job on changing the silhouette of the sausage according to the texture and also wrapping the texture around so we can have that depth sense, but I'd be more careful with trying to draw the cast shadows instead of the lines you see, this example might help a bit.
https://i.imgur.com/M9JJfr4.png
But overall you did a good job!
Form intersections
I think you did a good job here as well, the lines are confident and well planned, the ellipses are drawn through, but i see you repeated some lines on the first page, which is something to avoid.
Organic Intersections
In this one you did well on drawing the simple forms, drawing through them and the shading is pretty good in most part, but some of your sausages are kind of floating around, i think this is more a matter of practice but it helps to think of the shapes as water balloons that fall on the top of each other, so they kind of wrap around each other.
As i said, your shadows are good overall, but remember that they kind of wrap around the shape underneath them, like this
These are minor observations, but i hope they are useful.
Again congrats on finishing the homework, hopefully this review was useful somehow and i think you're ready for Lesson 3!
Next Steps:
On to Lesson 3!
9:36 AM, Monday October 11th 2021
Thank you for reviewing my homework.
I did do the Texture analysis exercise, but it was not uploaded fore some reason. So here it is https://imgur.com/a/3Paq36e
Your observations are useful for me as I do some of these exercises in warmup.
7:45 PM, Friday October 22nd 2021
Sorry about the delay, i've been kinda busy.
Your texture analysis exercise is good, but you could try to make the drawings darker as they get closer to the black bar so we can't really tell where the black bar is.
Good luck with your studies!
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