Caeruleum

https://imgur.com/gallery/NsZsohy

It is near 5 hours and I think it's fine. I had a little bit of chaos in the middle so I took a break, and although after finishing it I felt it was terrible, now I think it is fine. Everything is just kind of fine. I kind of failed the curvy part of the above the wheel thing, but I believe it's because I messed up when putting in the big black chunk.

The brewer's technique helped a lot honestly. Usually the back corner of the enclosing box will not line up but this time it did, I believe it helped a lot.

https://imgur.com/gallery/I8pckPl

I'm not overall satisfied with this, but yeah, I did put maximum effort on this one. Thank you!

That's much better! Your confidence as definitely improved over this page. Feel free to move on to the 250 box challenge and to ask for agrees on the discord community!

That's great! While some part of it still seems pretty wobbly, I can definitely see that your confidence in lines improved a lot, and you have definitely understood what is being required to understand in this lesson. Congratulations on completing lesson 1 and good luck on your 250 box challenge! Feel free to ask for agrees in the discord community.

Hello CZAREVGENIY, congratulations on finishing the box challenge! let's get right into the critique.

You definitely understood what is being said in the lesson, and your line quality improved drastically along the way. A good thing I'm observing is that you hatched your every box with even, straight, parallel lines, which is great. The lineweight you added is subtle, and it definitely shows that your line accuracy has improved a lot.

However, there's some things I want to mention, good and bad:

• Not varying degrees of perspective. I can see that the majority of your boxes are in a very dramatic perspective. It's good for practicing your convergence, but keep in mind that drawing boxes that are less distorted once in ten boxes or more can make a good exercise.

• You varied the dimensions of your boxes. I can see that once in a while you would draw a very long or flat box. That definitely makes the task more challenging, and it showed great growth in your spacial reasoning skills since you've started practicing this way. Great job!

• Inner corner. It is a very common problem, I can see while your margin of error definitely shrunk, you still struggle with inner corners in the last 50 boxes. There's some ways you can improve with this. One way is to change the order you draw boxes in. first establish the inner corner can make you think about it better. Here's the order I'm talking about: https://imgur.com/FGdtVwm . Another thing is to think the line of boxes in groups, considering the relation between your lines, so you can take advantages of very close lines. Using this method, you can take much better guess of which angle should you draw your line in. This diagram can explain this more clearly: https://i.imgur.com/8PqQLE0.png . It can be pretty hard to understand; you can look it from time to time while keeping practicing boxes regularly, and it will click eventually.

All in all, you showed great patience over this submission, and you have surely improved a lot. For that, I think this submission is definitely worth a pass, at least. Congratulations on completing the challenge again, and good luck on lesson 2! Feel free to ask for agrees in the discord community.

Hello BL4NK! I'm gonna be handling your submission today, so let's get right into it!

First, your lines. Your super-imposed lines are mostly pretty good, while there's some wobble in the first page, things have definitely improved in the second page and you continued your confidence in lines to the ghosted lines exercise. Your ghosted lines are looking good, but I notice that some of them are a little bit curved. It can be caused by not using the shoulder pivot, in that case, you can pay more attention to that. But it can also happen even if you used the shoulder pivot. This can usually be solved by consciously curving to the opposite side. Good work!

For your ellipses, it is clear that you have grasped every aspect of the lesson pretty well. But notice, there's some wobble in your lines in the ghosted planes - remember that confidence is much more important than accuracy in this lesson. The same is for ellipses, while your ellipses are pretty accurate, they show a bit of wobble sometimes. So don't be afraid to make mistakes, we're just building confidence in this period of time. Your funnels are looking good, and I can definitely see that you're actively trying to solve your confidence issue.

Finally, boxes. They are mostly good, and showed a grasp of the concepts mentioned in the lesson. However, your problem with your lines carried into the box section. I can understand that while focusing on solving these perspective problems, it's hard to keep your line quality, but still keep an eye on that. I noticed that you've repeated some of your lines - remember that you shouldn't repeat any lines in order to correct it. Just leave it there, it's an important mental ability in this lesson to cope with your previous mistakes. For rotated boxes, you showed an excellent understanding of boxes here. While you failed at some of your lines here and there, your work is extraordinary compared to other students. Great work! On your organic perspective exercise, you showed a decrease in line quality, and I can understand it - the exercise itself is already a pretty hard one. While you made some mistakes perspective wise, we will work on them in 250 box challenge, so no need to worry about that.

All in all, your work is very good throughout this lesson. For this, I will personally give you a pass on this lesson. Feel free to ask for agrees in the discord community and good luck on the 250 box challenge!

Hi. Your work is pretty good but there's some things I want to point out - let's get straight into it!

For lines, your work here is pretty good. I can see that you've put a lot of efforts in your super imposed lines and ghosted lines. however, there's a bit of wobble, especially in longer lines. To solve this, you can ghost more, and remember to prioritize confidence over accuracy. I noticed that your accuracy here's pretty good, so try to keep that in your mind. Also, I can see that for some lines, especially long ones, they are a little bit curved. That may be cause by not using the shoulder pivot, but even if you used the shoulder pivot, it can still happen. If this is the case, you can consciously try to arc the line in the opposite direction. Otherwise, you work in this section is very good.

As to ellipses, they are pretty accurate, but just as I mentioned in the lines section, you need to pay more attention to getting confident ellipses than accurate ones. Remember to ghost more and don't fear to make mistakes - they are pretty hard for a beginner, so making mistakes is very normal. You seems to have understood other parts of the lesson quite well. But again, I can't stress this enough - aim on making your linework confident more than making them accurate.

Finally, boxes, you clearly have understood the underlying theory behind boxes. But just like I mentioned in the ellipses and lines section, ghost your lines, and make sure they are confident. For the rough perspective exercise, I noticed that your lines are pretty wobbly. These are supposed to be done by plotting the starting and end position for each line and then ghost, and draw the line you plotted down confidently. For the rotated boxes, although it have fell apart in quite a few places, a portion of your page showed that you have clearly understood what is the goal of this exercise. For the organic perspective exercise, I noticed that you made some perspective mistakes in the exercise, but that doesn't matter - we will work on that in the 250 box challenge.

So, all in all, your work is great, expect the fact that your lines are not confident enough throughout. So, to provide you a chance to experiment with more confident lines, I'll assign you a page of ghosted planes. Good luck with them!

Congratulations on finishing lesson 1! Your work here is pretty well done, so let's get right in to the critique - there are some things I want to mention that can hopefully help you do better on the exercises you've done.

The first thing that stands out to me in this submission is your use of lined paper. Note that it's not the best choice - it would be better be A4 printing papers. If you have some of these around, please use them in your revisions.

Lines

• Wobble in lines. Wobble in lines is usually a sign of unconfident line work. As mentioned in the lesson, confident lines are better than accurate lines at this point. Remember to ghost every mark you make and take your time. Ghosting is a method worth practicing, and the more early on you start to pay considerable attention to this, the more (generally) you're going to improve. You're doing pretty well at this point, but I just want to mention it because there's still room for improvement - your line quality would be much better if you pay more attention at making your lines more confident than accurate.

• Arching lines. This could be caused by not using the shoulder pivot or not ghosting enough. If this is the case, remember to use the shoulder pivot for your lines, and ghost every mark you draw. However, it can be present even if you used your shoulder pivot. in this case, it can usually be solved by consciously arching to the opposite direction. I hope that'll help you!

• Repeated lines.(or is that under drawing) You repeated some lines that shouldn't be repeated. I know you may thought that these lines are not accurate enough, but remember, throughout the lesson, any lines shouldn't be repeated for correction purpose. It's a precious thing to learn in Drawabox that is accepting your mistakes. Trust me - it will happen a lot in the following lessons, but whatever how much your line strays from your intention, they should not be repeated. Instead, just cope with it. I understand, this is going to be painful, but it's an important lesson to learn here.

• Under drawing. Well, I'm not sure if the thing you did is repeated line or underdrawing. However, both should not be used in Drawabox assignments.

All in all, your lines are looking good aside of the things I pointed out previously. Keep up the good work!

Ellipses

• Ellipses not occupying spaces snugly. This is a problem of accuracy, although it might just be that you are not very familiar with ellipses. Note that in the ellipse table, ellipses should touch the upper and lower bound and each following ellipse should touch each other. Similarly, in the ellipses in planes exercise, ellipses should touch the four edges of each planes. I understand it is hard to achieve - nearly all of the students struggle with ellipses even after they completed the course. But I still want to mention it, which is an actual mistake. No need to take it seriously right now, remember what's the most important is confidence in your line work.

• Like the lines, confidence in ellipses should be prioritized over accuracy, too. This is just a reminder: achieving smooth and confident ellipses is way more important than drawing accurate ones.

To summarize, you have achieved what is expected in this section aside of the things I have pointed out previously. Great job!

Boxes

• On rough perspective, width lines are not parallel to the horizon and height lines are not perpendicular to the horizon. Remember that width lines should be parallel to the horizon and height lines perpendicular to the horizon. It might be hard to you, and many students. But since you have this mistake, I have mentioned it so you can keep it in your mind if it is not yet.

• On rotated boxes, some boxes are not rotating. Because the boxes are rotating, so their VPs needs to change. It may be hard to understand for many students, so it's pretty much normal. This is a link to a much more detailed explanation I can offer, I hope this will help you: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/368870697742630912/715669112222908466/zfr3o7xneog31.png?width=71&height=534 . Anyways, that's just some of your boxes, though. A large portion of your boxes, they are great. I'm just bringing this up to make sure that you're not confused with it.

• Inappropriate hatching. Remember that your hatching on the boxes should be ghosted, parallel lines. Try to treat them like the way you treat your other lines. Anyways, this is just a minor problem, but remember that it applies in the box challenge too.

• Mistakes in perspective in organic perspective. It's very common for students to have this problem because they're not familiar to boxes yet. I'm just bringing this up and you don't need to worry about this - we will work on it in the hell of 250 boxes.

All in all, your work is great on this lesson. But for the sake of that I think you've repeated some lines (or made some under drawings in pencil), I'm going to assign you just one more page of ghosted lines, with no underdrawing or repeated lines. Keep up the good work!

https://imgur.com/a/HsTJ1aK

I included my self critiques for each drawing in the submission, I feel that that way you could know more about what problem did I realize myself and what I didn't. Following your advice, I took nearly twice as much time as before on a single drawing as a result, but the extra time gave me the opportunity to think through every mark.

Additional forms is a problem I think I solved during these 6 drawings (which I might still didn't, if my understanding of these are still pretty distorted), and head constructions are still a problem, which is normal, I think. I think I relied too much on luck for the starting masses, as big ellipses and curves are still a pretty big problem for me, although warmups helped with that quite a bit.

I'm still not sure about if this amount of growth is too little for a single lesson, but I think you'll give an answer to that in the critique. Thanks in advance.

P.S. although I skipped a day, that still could not look like 6 or 7 days have passed because timezones, that's very unlikely, but I'll mention that just in case.

https://imgur.com/a/KgsyCsk

No.1 and 2 is me kinda figuring out how additional forms work, I think I'm more confident with 3 and 4, which are no longer just profile views, a little bit harder but great exercise.