Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

7:03 PM, Friday July 2nd 2021

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It took a lot of time to finish this lesson because procrastination and I was feeling a bit depressed. In my opinion everything I am posting right now is horrible, but I am sending to critique anyway as recommended.

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5:10 PM, Monday July 5th 2021

Hello,

here's critique:

  • Arrows - some of them are too flat or with wrongly shaded sides, but most look fine - in future you can try to add line weight first then its easier to see arrow in 3d space and know which sides to shade

  • Contour ellipsed - OK

  • Contour curves - OK - though try not to redo failed lines and work with what you got

  • Texture analysis - OK

  • Dissections - most of them are explict (drawing everytinhg) try making some implict ones too (draw gradiation of dark to light), some of them do not break the form where they could (remember good silloutte is very important)

  • Intersections - OK for now (main goal at lesson 2 is to draw similarly sized forms as if they belong to the same space, most intersections themselves are bad, but it's not expecting to do them well at this stage, so no worries)

  • Organic intersections - I see you got the concept, though you seem to have forgotten shadows for most of these?

Overall I think you did well and can move on to the next lesson

Good luck in your art journey!

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5:49 PM, Monday July 5th 2021

Thank you for the critique :)

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