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I certainly might review yours if I'm around that time. Idk if you were planning it but I strongly recommend asking feedback from Discord community sometimes - as you do the boxes - so you know if you are having some issues or not.

You welcome! You should start with 250 boxes challenge first and then proceed to Lesson 2 afterwards: https://drawabox.com/lesson/250boxes

It takes around a month to finish it but it depends of the person, it might take more. Don't forget 50% fun drawing and taking breaks sometimes cause for many it's not at all easy challenge to finish they say :)

Hello again!

Well done on the extra homework, it's looking good! The first boxes on the right show some extension lines going off a little bit (probably cause you didn't notice), but you grasped the meaning of the exercise and can be proud of yourself of finishing Lesson 1 entirely:)

I'm glad I could be of help to you!

Hello Thecoffeeaddict!

Glad to be of help! I looked over your extra homework. I recommend to re-read the whole tutorial on rough perspective and then do them again. Most of your extended lines are really randomly drawn towards horizon line, I think you forgot what the exercise asks from you to do, so you are missing the point of how the perspective works when you have 1 vanishing point and a box in 3D space correlating with that vanishing point. Here's the link to tutorial: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/roughperspective

The rules you have to understand and follow in this exercise when you build up the boxes:

**All lines that go off into the distance converge at the vanishing point

**All horizontal lines run perfectly parallel to the horizon

**All vertical lines run perfectly perpendicular to the horizon

I suggest you watch the video too and compare your extra homework with example homework on the bottom of the page. Your extend lines are suppose to extend the lines that you already build your box with, you shouldn't change their trajectory by yourself.

Just a sidenote, I also often re-read the tutorials, cause it's really easy to go wrong when we read them just once or a long time ago. Good luck with the extra homework!

Hey,

I'm glad I could help :)

Cheers!

Sidenote: if you feel like you want to help out the DaB community with critiques, then here's a good guidelines from Elodin https://pastebin.com/u/elodab

Helping others is a good way to learn even more ourselves too!

Hello Zissa,

Congratulations on finishing Lesson 1. It looks well done and I can see a lot of effort put in!

°Lines are good, there's a bit of wobble here and there. Ghosted planes second page looks super!

°Try to put your ellipses into warm-up exercise sometimes and favourably draw them through twice only. Try to make them smoother, for example ellipses in planes look a bit wonky, maybe you draw them too slow or used a wrist, but you could make them smoother in shape and flow while drawing from shoulder and ghosting. Same with funnel exercise, they fit really well into given borders and they don't overlap - your outcome is presice- but first thing you should go for is nice flow and no wobble: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/a76a8906.jpg

°Even though I can make out the boxes in plotted perspective exercise, it would've been nice to see you shade one sides of each box with a ruler, it adds extra visual cue to the viewer.

Good job with rough perspective.

In rotated boxes they could rotate even more, like in this example: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/6e259e79.jpg Your most diagonal boxes look good, and overall very clear linework.

Organic boxes looking like intended, some lines seem fixed, but in the future exercises try not to fix anything and leave the mistakes there to study from them.

When you move on with next exercises, then remember to keep using your shoulder pivot for every line.

Have a great day!

Hey, Coolinsky, I wanted to add that your funnels are really wobbly and ellipses too in general, so definitely practice your ellipses more, try maybe with faster speed, keep them smooth in shape! Do them in warm-up

Hey Shady4Sketcher,

Congratulations on finishing your first challenge!

It's easy to give feedback to you, cause your boxes are really well done from the start tbh.

You have straight and good lines, and boxes look neat. Boxes nr 34, 37 are the last one I noticed with one side having a wrong set of extended lines. Not much mistakes with those. The way your set of lines are converging toward VPs look really good overall, and you steadily get better at it.

You could've definitely be more subtle with the lineweight, it's overdone with lot of boxes https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/980a575e.jpg Yours have tendency to "shout" at the viewer (using DaB vocabulary from said example picture).

Like you mentioned you are fixing the lines and I strongly recommend not doing it from here on. It's not easy to leave all the mistakes bare, but noone said DaB is easy anyways. Even in the future you can come back to your previous homework and see the evolution through your mistakes back then.

You have some great boxes where back line seems to run so well on all three directions, and everything seems to converge just right, like box nr 221.

But for future notice if you do boxes for warm-up you can study this diagram: https://m.imgur.com/8PqQLE0

It's about noticing and realizing the distances and angles of the set of lines that go towards VP. Often middle lines have small angle between them, might be near parallel. It's about practice, experience and seeing these relations in your head, not plotting out the lines towards the VPs exactly (like ghosting), but eyeballing and studying the relations between the set of lines between themselves and also with other set of lines.

Hope my feedback helped a little and made sense!

Hello BORRREGO,

Congrats on finishing Lesson 1, you can be proud of yourself :)

Here's my critique:

Your lines look pretty good, you can try making your ghosted lines even more confident in the future warm-ups, so that they would get straighter. In ghosted planes you sometimes undershooted them. In DaB confidence goes always before accuracy tho. So keep practicing!

I like your ellipses, and there's clear improvement on the second page of table of ellipses. They look smoother in shape and that's the way to go. There's a bit overlapping and going outside of the given borders, but not much.

Ellipses in planes are bit wobbly sometimes, your aim is first make smooth ellipses and then making them touch the sides will follow after that. I think you just need more practice here, but you did a really good job with them.

You could've experiment more with the size in the funnels, from smaller to bigger, otherwise they look fine.

In plotted perspective you have to use the ruler for shading too. The boxes look in perspective tho.

I noticed in rough perspective exercise that the front faces of the boxes are done so well that it's seems like the ruler was used. Correct me if I'm wrong! Ruler should only be used afterwards when you extend the lines back towards the horizon line. Everything else is well done.

Rotated boxes is super hard at first, but you did it well! Of course the boxes should rotate more but you will learn how that goes in next challenge. Remember if you use shading than always put effort into it and make it neat in next exercises.

Organic boxes are conveying the feeling of moving in space from distance towards the viewer, nice.

You finished your first lesson well.