SqueakySun in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2018-10-23 10:35
Firstly - just want to thank you for the time you took in pointing out where I could improve and for all of your tips and helpful hints, they were incredibly helpful. I went over your notes one by one and practiced.
Arrows - at first I was unsure but then I realized I could swap the overlap part so it looked more like it was moving through space! and I exaggerated the scale. I understand these a lot better now! Yay!
Contour Ellipses - Now that I look again I can see the difference it made by not ghosting. I'm going to try and focus more on the ghosting method and planning before I draw the line.
Contour Lines - I understand what you mean now. I didn't even realise at the time, I did two more pages as you requested and to be honest I really didn't quite grasp this concept at all until page 2, you can see a few them I got right! Which I was happy about. It's nice having those 'Aha!' moments. Still need more practice but I am much clearer on this now.
Dissections - When you mentioned "Right now, you're largely enclosing each little element - each scale, each pebble, etc" you are 100% right! I find this one very challenging but fun too! It is really overwhelming looking at the texture and trying to re-create it for me but I'm slowly starting to understand but I have a long way to go. It looks like I can practice more with the texture challenge later on.
Form Intersections - I'm happy you said that they were okay but I really struggled with this the most, I still don't understand this (except for one intersection with a square where I knew I had done it right) I'll make sure not to use a thicker pen for the outlines. That makes perfect sense!
Thanks again :D Really enjoying the feedback and my Draw a Box journey!
SqueakySun in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2018-10-20 22:34
Hi Uncomfortable,
Here is my Lesson 2 all done!
Eager to hear your feedback!
Thanks :-)
Kirsten
SqueakySun in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2018-10-25 22:38
Great - thanks very much Uncomfortable :-)
Should I do the 250 cylinder challenge first or should I move straight on to Lesson 3 Drawing Plants?