Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
8:07 AM, Wednesday February 15th 2023
Whoever prefers Drive, here's a link: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1lY7kLz3GmXsSp7j27a_DKZYLYYP-kyvd
Whoever prefers Drive, here's a link: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1lY7kLz3GmXsSp7j27a_DKZYLYYP-kyvd
Organic arrows: Good job on making them flow through 3d space and compressing on the farther end! And also, extra points for making the tip of the arrow turn, too! i do notice wobbley lineweight though, so remember: line weight is always applied confidently!
Organic forms: Very solid, great work! you did a great job in gradually making the ellipses and contour curves in the center less visible than the one that are more near to the end of the sausages
Texture analysis: Perhaps the second texture's gradient had a slight sudden transition in the middle towards sparse, but that's okay in my book. Props for not scribbling!
Dissections: Great job!! You break the silhouette when needed and also rounded your forms
Form intersections: Good job on maintaing your shapes shallow and equilateral! A small tip for your future warmups where you do this exercise again: Install a 3d software on your pc and try to replicate the intersections you make so that you can make sure they are done correctly (but only do so after commiting to marking the intersection)
Organic intersections: One issue that i found here is that in the second page, the big sausage wouldn'nt have one side standing up like that. Maybe if you'd add another sausage right next to it to make that happen sure, but like this it feels too unnatural. by nature, it'd be laying flat on the floor (you can picture in your mind how it'd look it).
Overall a fantastic submission with minor errors you'll hopefully work on, if you'd like to work on your textures you can begin the 25 texture challenge as a side-quest from your next lesson. But anyway, you're now ready for the leafy lesson...
Next Steps:
... Lesson 3!
Thank you so much for taking time to critique my lesson 2, I have been waiting for a long time. It was worth it!
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