![]() Similarly, looking at wheel 19, you also have some places where you tried to separate these different planes of a given tread form by filling in the sides with solid black. One common mistake students make is something we can see in your 9th wheel - you constructed each tread "chunk" separately, defining its various faces and separating them with edges. We imply these textures through shadow shapes alone, and refrain from using line as much as possible. The marks we draw are not defined by these gaps, but rather by the shadows each form casts into the gaps and onto the forms around them. ![]() ![]() Every solid piece of rubber, and the spaces that separate them. The key to pinning down these tire treads is the same as handling any texture - it is to focus not on the patterns of lines that you can see in your reference, but to identify the actual individual forms that are present. By the time a student reaches this stage, they're many lessons removed from Lesson 2's texture section, and so most of them tend to forget some of the nuances of capturing textures. Moving onto the tires, what I like most about this challenge is the fact that it serves as a reminder. There are a few things I'll call out when discussing the tire treads, but all in all your work here has come along well, and I'm especially pleased to see that you didn't always just limit yourself to constructing a simple cylinder - by using a series of ellipses along the length of the wheel, you captured the more subtle bulging through the midsection of the wheel, while retaining the form's solidity. Very nicely done! Starting with your construction, you've done a pretty solid job of building out your wheels, both in terms of the cylindrical structure as well as with the assorted style of rims.
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