BigClown35533

Hello! Here is your feedback for the Lesson 1 exercises. Overall, great work completing the homework.

Overall Feedback

• Thank you for using the recommended tools (fineliners). This gives your lines a crisp, clear quality that is perfect for these exercises.

• Your overall line quality is excellent. Your marks are confident, smooth, and consistent across all the exercises, which shows a strong understanding of the core mark-making principles.

• You have a good grasp of the 'draw through' method for ellipses, consistently using the correct 2-3 passes without overdoing it. This keeps your work clean and easy to assess.

• Your work shows an excellent level of care and attention to detail. You've clearly read the instructions for each exercise thoroughly and followed the process exactly as described. This methodical approach is fantastic and will help you build a very strong foundation.

• You're doing a fantastic job of thinking and drawing in three dimensions. Your boxes feel solid and volumetric, not like flat shapes. It's clear you are visualizing them as real objects in space, which is the most important takeaway from these exercises.

Here is the feedback broken down by exercise:

Lines

Superimposed Lines

• Your lines in the superimposed exercise are confident and straight. Great work on avoiding hesitation and steering the stroke!

• You're doing a great job of placing your pen down deliberately before starting your superimposed lines, avoiding fraying at the start.

Ghosted Lines

• Your ghosted lines are very well-executed, showing a clear commitment to the stroke without hesitation. This demonstrates a good understanding of the process.

• Excellent work keeping your ghosted lines straight! This shows you are effectively compensating for the natural arc of your arm by drawing from the shoulder.

Ghosted Planes

• You maintained the same quality of linework in your Ghosted Planes as you did in the Ghosted Lines, showing that you're giving each line the required time and focus.

Ellipses

Tables of Ellipses

• You've followed the instructions for the table of ellipses perfectly by drawing through them the correct number of times.

• You are correctly limiting your passes to 2-3 rotations.

• Your ellipses in the table fit snugly within their spaces, showing you are aiming for the target correctly.

• Your ellipses are evenly shaped and smoothly executed. This demonstrates good use of the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder.

Ellipses in Planes

• Great job in the Ellipses in Planes exercise! You're consistently making your ellipses touch all four edges.

1. Your ellipses in the planes appear a bit stiff or deformed. It's common to lose focus on the quality of the ellipse itself when dealing with the challenge of fitting it into a plane. Prioritize a confident, smooth execution.

Funnels

• You've done a great job ensuring your ellipses touch the edges of the funnel.

• Fantastic work on the funnels exercise! Your ellipses show a clear attempt to align to the central minor axis.

Boxes

Plotted Perspective

• You've correctly used a ruler for the Plotted Perspective exercise. Following the instructions precisely is a key part of the lesson.

• Your vertical lines are perfectly perpendicular to the horizon. This shows great care and attention to detail.

• You've done an excellent job plotting all the horizontal edges back to the correct vanishing points.

Rough Perspective

• You've correctly used a single vanishing point for the rough perspective exercise.

• The front and back faces of your boxes are correctly rectangular, with parallel horizontals and perpendicular verticals.

• You are applying the line extensions correctly to check your convergence. This is a critical skill.

• You are demonstrating good use of the ghosting method for your freehanded lines.

• Great work drawing through your boxes in the Rough Perspective exercise. This is a vital habit for understanding 3D form.

Rotated Boxes

• You've followed the core steps of the rotated boxes exercise perfectly by laying out the axes and squares first.

• The gaps between your rotated boxes are tight and consistent. This shows good estimation and careful placement.

• Your boxes are genuinely rotating in space, with their vanishing points shifting as they turn. This is a core concept that you've grasped well!

• Excellent work drawing through your boxes ('x-ray' vision'). This is vital for understanding them as 3D forms.

2. It looks like you may have missed a few boxes from the set. There are supposed to be 5 boxes in each row and column. Please complete these and reply with them. It's important to complete the entire set before moving on.

Organic Perspective

• You're using the ghosting method effectively in the organic perspective exercise, resulting in confident, clean lines.

3. I've noticed some cases of divergence in your organic perspective boxes (lines that should be converging are instead spreading apart). This means you need to give yourself more time during the planning phase of your lines.

• You've applied a nice, subtle degree of foreshortening to your boxes. The gradual convergence feels consistent and believable.

• Excellent work pushing the variety in your forms! Your boxes have dynamic rotations and proportions, which shows you're actively exploring 3D space and not just staying in a comfort zone.

Hello I'm Simon and will be reviewing your Lesson :)

First of all congrats on completing the 250 Boxes challenge! It's a really hard part of the course and having completed it Lesson 2 will feel much easier so have fun with it!

General notes

You did a good job of extending your lines in the right direction everytime well done :) You seem to have some diverging/parallel lines (like n°61, 65, 68...) that's okay just make sure to keep an eye on that and for the next time you'll pull the boxes exercise as a warmup. I encourage you to focus on practicing those shallower foreshortening boxes which are tougher but will help you improve a good deal! Some lines appear to be a bit wobbly (boxes1-50 mainly it got better later on) that's fine, just keep practicing your ghosted lines, make sure to use the ghosting method for every stroke and if at times you feel rushed, or tired don't hesitate to take a break, have a little breather or even a walk and make sure you're focused on the exercise when you get back to it! A few times (boxes108, 109) you seem to have went over your line again, that's not great, moving forward please try to not do that no matter how important you think this line is to the drawing, drawing over your line makes your drawing look messier, even if you make the new line perfect, and it also hinders your ability to remember your mistakes since you try to hide it under a new line, so it's not a big deal here but with the next few lessons be sure not to do that :) Good job on varying the orientation of all your boxes! That helps you improve much faster and you did well to do it! Most of your back corners aren't perfect but don't worry! that's completely okay and you'll have time to improve on it at your pace, If I can recommend something to improve on that it's to think of each line in the relation of the 4 others, even the ones that aren't drawn yet. That helped me, for some people drawing the boxes by starting with the 'hidden sides' helps them a great deal so feel free to try these techniques :) You started using hatching on your boxes, that's a good habit, so keep practicing that on the next lessons when you can, that will already give you a little head start :) For your next boxes in your warmups I recommend you start using lineweight to emphasize the weight and volumes of the boxes and to bring them to the next level, it's a good skill to have that will come in useful in later lessons!

Other notes

I'd like here to mainly focus on your wobbly lines since you seem to have understood everything about the exercise and you achieved it well.

I went back to look at your Lesson 1 and you seem to struggle a bit to get confidently drawn smooth lines. I do not know if you did warm ups before doing your boxes but moving forward make sure to do a few warmups before each drawing session and I'd like you to focus on The superimposed and then ghosted lines exercise. Try to find the speed for which your arm is the most comfortable at drawing smooth long lines. You improved over the 250 boxes which is a good sign but even some of the last ones still had some very wobbly lines so keep an eye on that!

Other than that great job, keep doing your 50/50 rule I really like some of the drawings you've done and good luck with Lesson2 !

Also I strongly encourage you to go review some submissions on the website :) You can easily review some lessons 1 and if you feel like it can review 250 boxes or wait until you completed lesson 2! Don't hesitate to do a review every so often. It really benefits you so you don't forget the point of the previous exercises and helps other people who are waiting on a review :)