Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
4:50 PM, Sunday April 18th 2021
Hi, here's my submission for Lesson 2. I made this lesson after taking a rather long hiatus (1 year) but i've already remade the previous lessons (including the 250 boxes) so i don't think it'll show particularly.
Here are the main problems that i had while doing this lesson:
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Struggled with the arrows to maintain a light lineweight due to the medium, and it shows since sometimes i don't hit the page in order
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to keep it lightly and i accidently pull the pen a few fraction of mms away from the surface
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Problems with countour curves, due to force of habit, have been used to do ellipses and now i struggle to not complete the motion
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1st time drawing Textures in my entire life, so i've made plenty of mistakes. This and texture analysis were the assigment that made me stop drawing for a year (along with no time spent on fun drawings)
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Some textures in dissection look like 2 different texture even thought they're the same because i started with 1 approach, realized it looked bad, and switched to another. Before doing that i used to repeat 1 texture 2-3-4-5-ecc.. times in another piece of paper before putting it down in the original page that i was gonna deliver for the homework submission (i don't do that anymore)
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Applying details to the slices, the ellipses that represent circles in perspective, and making it look proportional is hard for me right now, any advice specifically on that?
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The tire was outside my current abilities. Any advice particularly on that, since we're supposed to do them for the wheels challenge?
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Also i don't understand this phrase on one of the example picture of the dissections exercise:
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Somewhere Uncomfortable said: "You must decide what to keep and what to throw out in order to visually communicate your texture, keep your drawing pleasing to the viewer's eye". How do you apply this? See the kiwi in the picture he drew where this phrase is written, he uses lines to indicate the white lines to radiate out from the center and separate each column of the kiwi seeds
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He uses lines and yet i don't understand, since what he's trying to communicate are lines that are attached to the surface of the kiwi and are of color light green, on a darker green surface, and not cast shadow as i would expect.
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Does that mean that we use lines and dots also to indicate a change in value/color if the contrast is high enough?
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I don't feel particulary confident with my Organic Intersections.
Last but not least, can you please add the 250 boxes role for my account on discord? I forgot to ask that on the request-role server, and didn't want to ask twice. The evidence i've made that challenge and lesson 1 is on the reddit account linked to this account.