Adley

Giver of Life

The Unshakeable (Spring 2024)

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    9:52 PM, Wednesday May 1st 2024

    Hey.

    I saw your homework and thought it was magnificent. You already have some experience with drawing and definitely understand the concepts.

    I will mark your lesson as complete.

    Make sure to apply the 50% rule if you don't already and redo some of the exercises from this lesson with a warm-up before drawing.

    Next Steps:

    250 box challenge.

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    9:42 PM, Wednesday May 1st 2024

    You did the exercises very well, but I have a few points to highlight in your homework.

    Your ellipses exceeded the 3-line limit (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/drawingthrough).

    You forgot to do (or send) some exercises. I'll show you which exercises are missing.

    Next Steps:

    1 page of Table of ellipses.

    1 page of rough perspective.

    1 page of rotated boxes.

    1 page of organic perspective

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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    8:57 PM, Wednesday May 1st 2024

    Hello, I will be giving you my feedback regarding your homework. (make sure to apply the 50% rule if you don't already)

    Lines

    At first, your lines are a little arched, but this decreases over time (but there is still a little arched: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ghostedlines/arc).

    Ellipses

    Your ellipses are OK. I noticed that in the funnel exercise, they were a little misaligned with the center line.

    Boxes

    You did a good job in all the exercises in this section, but you forgot to complete the rough perspective (you didn't do the line extension: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/20/step9)

    In this exercise, one of the boxes is rotated. This is a mistake as this exercise must be done at just one vanishing point and following the restrictions (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/20/guessing). As this was a one-off, it will only be a point of attention.

    Finish the exercise and submit it here when you're done.

    Next Steps:

    Finish the rough perspective exercise, extending the lines.

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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    8:20 PM, Wednesday May 1st 2024

    My honest feedback to your homework:

    Lines:

    They look slightly arched to me. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ghostedlines/arc

    Your lines are smooth and without hesitation.

    Ellipses:

    Your ellipses are very cool, I just noticed a slight misalignment in the funnel exercise, but you made a mistake trying to get it right.

    Boxes:

    I noticed your difficulty in doing them freehand. Despite this, you did well applying the concepts learned so far (you will notice a big improvement during the 250 boxes challenge).

    You did a great job. Proceed with the DAB, just don't forget to redo some of the exercises from this lesson as a warm-up before you start drawing (and be sure to apply the 50% rule to your routine).

    Next Steps:

    250 boxes challenge.

    Don't give up and go ahead!!!

    This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
    7:46 PM, Wednesday May 1st 2024

    Thx!!! :>

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    8:07 PM, Sunday April 28th 2024

    Hi, I'm going to give you my feedback on your homework. Are you ready? Let's start!

    Lines

    At first, your lines are a little arched, but this decreases over time (but there is still a little arching:

    https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ghostedlines/arc ).

    Ellipses

    Good job drawing them. Even though there are mistakes, I saw that you are aware of them. The smoothness with which you draw the eilpses will improve with practice.

    Boxes:

    Nothing to complain about. Your ability to draw boxes will improve significantly in the 250 boxes challenge.

    Great job! I encourage you to continue DAB, move on to the 250 box challenge and continue with the 50% rule. Don't forget to redo these exercises as a warm-up before drawing.

    Next Steps:

    250 boxes challenge.

    This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
    7:44 PM, Sunday April 28th 2024

    I'm very happy that you criticized my homework.

    I'm sending an extra page, because when I went to draw it, I forgot that it only needed construction and I ended up adding some cast shadows. (My leaves exercise had more errors than the ones I flagged)

    https://imgur.com/a/929czZg

    9:26 AM, Wednesday April 3rd 2024

    Thank you very much for the feedback! I will definitely take your tips into consideration :)

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    5:01 PM, Thursday March 28th 2024

    Hey. My name is Vitor Adley and today I'm going to criticize your lesson 1, highlighting problems and pointing out possible solutions. I'm going to assume that you follow the 50% rule (if not, start implementing it immediately).

    Lines: when drawing a line, don't try to draw it again with the intention of correcting it if you make a mistake (it's something I saw in some of your exercises). No matter how bad the line is, don't try to fix it, just carry on as if nothing happened.

    Ellipses: not bad, they have some irregularities but these will be easily corrected with practice. In the funnel exercise, I noticed that you got the alignment of some ellipses wrong, but with the intention of getting it right, then it's not a problem.

    Boxes: it is in this section that what I said in the lines section becomes more evident. I noticed that in the rotated boxes exercise, some boxes had the same vanishing point, with no rotation (you could change the inclination of the box lines to have different rotations).

    I will mark your lesson as complete, just pay attention to my criticisms to reduce mistakes next time. You can use some of these exercises as a warm-up before drawing.

    Next Steps:

    Your next step is the 250 Boxes Challenge. Good luck:)

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    4:12 PM, Thursday March 28th 2024

    Hey KANGAROO. I honestly didn't see any major problems in your lesson 1, I just want to give you some tips in case you do some exercises again.

    In rotated boxes, you could position the 4 corner squares at the same distance from each other, so the shape of the boxes would be more circular. In the organic perspective you could add line weight in overlapping regions.

    You did well. You can continue to the next lessons, but it is extremely necessary that you do the 250 boxes challenge first.

    Don't forget to do some exercises from this lesson as a warm-up before drawing.

    Next Steps:

    Your next step is the 250 Boxes Challenge. Good luck:)

    This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
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