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Thank you for the long and in-depth critique! It alongside these diagrams definitely cleared up/solidified a lot of the stuff I was feeling throughout this lesson. Can't wait to apply these concepts to animals ^^

Apologies! Didn't realize I missed ghosted lines. I've attached that exercise to the imgur link.

Thank you for the critique! Your comments were insightful. I'm definitely guilty of grinding out the dissections haha. I had quite an issue with the organic forms with contour lines, so thank you for pointing that out. I appreciate your critique! And I'll keep your warmup suggestions in mind

Helloooo! Congratulations on completing the 250 box challenge! Give yourself a pat on the back :) It’s a lot of work after all! That aside, I’ll be taking a look at your submission.

Things you did well:

• Line confidence was definitely a major strength all throughout; including both superimposed and hatching lines. Hatched lines are mostly evenly spaced. Even if there's wobble introduced here and there, it should be refined over time.

• You experimented with both rapid, and shallow foreshortening quite a bit. This is good! Experimenting with these concepts allow us to grasp them better. Additionally, your convergences in general were quite well done. There are minor issues present, which I'll expand upon in the next section. Overall, you show clear understanding of the concepts that were laid out.

Things you can work on:

• You should experiment more with rotations during future warmups. A lot of the boxes here have the same rotation. Here's a useful diagram that illustrates the various ways a box can rotate. All boxes should be drawn from imagination, so really only use it to get an idea of the rotations rather than relying on it.

• While you did a good job on convergences overall, there were some cases where lines converged in pairs. Here's an example. Making mistakes occasionally is inevitable, but here's a useful diagram we can use to try and mitigate it. As you can see, the inner lines are generally similar in terms of orientation. The outer lines are the ones most manipulated by the rates of foreshortening. While there are special cases, such as when a box is long, generally these two rules are pretty consistent.

All that aside, I'd like to congratulate you once again for completing the challenge. I'm fully confident that you understood the concepts the challenge laid out, and that you're prepared for lesson 2! Well done.

Helloooo! Congratulations on completing the 250 box challenge! Give yourself a pat on the back :) It’s a lot of work after all! That aside, I’ll be taking a look at your submission.

Things you did well:

• You drew your boxes large. Drawing large helps our spatial reasoning, and lets us better see our mistakes.

• Your lines are confident, and clearly show planning before executing a box.

• A lot of your boxes have slow rates of foreshortening. While it's important to experiment with both shallow and quick foreshortening, I do have to commend you on how well-executed most of the shallow-foreshortened boxes were. Since shallow foreshortening can make lines seem as though they're moving parallel, it's quite easy to have them diverge instead of converge. You were able to avoid this for a large number of boxes.

Things you can work on:

• You had the right idea with your hatched lines, but they tend to wobble. Remember, hatched lines should be ghosted like the box's form lines, and should also be evenly spaced. I'd recommend ghosting more when hatching. Smooth, confident lines should always be prioritized over accuracy.

• Some lines converge in pairs. While I do believe you were quite consistent in ensuring that all lines converged equally towards a vanishing point, this occasionally happens, and should be taken note of in future box warmups. Here's a useful diagram to show how lines converge, and their relationship to one another. As you can see, inner lines tend to be similar, whilst the outer lines are more affected by rates of foreshortening.

• Your boxes tend to have the same rotation, and foreshortening. As I've mentioned before, it's important to experiment with both shallow and rapid foreshortening. When warming up with boxes, make sure to play around with both far-away vanishing points, and closer ones.

• Play with line weight! Adding lineweight to the outline of our boxes can help reinforce its form.

That being said, good job on the challenge! I'm confident you understood the concepts being laid out, and I believe you're prepared for lesson 2. Keep my critique in mind when doing boxes, and I hope to see you further in :)

Helloooo! Congratulations on completing the 250 box challenge! Give yourself a pat on the back. It’s a lot of work after all! That aside, I’ll be taking a look at your submission.

Things you did well:

• You're doing a fantastic job of experimenting with the orientation, proportions, and rates of foreshortening with your boxes. Admittedly, they could get visually distracting at times, making it difficult to see certain vanishing points. Experimentation is always a good habit to have when building a new skill, however, especially when it comes to building a new skill, so I do have to commend it.

• You chose to employ hatching lines, and lineweight. These were optional, but highly recommended as they're valuable pracitce. Nice!

Things you can work on:

• Your linework definitely shows signs of confidence. The form lines are certainly confident most of the time, albeit wobbling here and there. A not-so-negligible amount of the hatching lines, however, do show wobbling quite often. Remember, hatching lines should be evenly spaced, and ghosted in the same way form lines are.

• Your use of lineweight demonstrates confidence, and I commend it! I just have a small nitpick though. When applying lineweight here, you generally want to outline just the silhouette of the box, rather than every line. Additionally, a single superimposed line is usually enough. Subtlety helps here.

• You run into the issues of lines converging in pairs . You do also have lines that run a bit too parallel, and thus end up diverging by accident. Here's a useful diagram to visualize the convergence of lines and their relation to one another. As you can see, the inner lines of a box (green and orange in the diagram I linked), will usually be very similar unless the box is long. The outer pair (blue and purple) on the other hand would vary more wildly depending on the location of the vanishing point. The farther the vanishing point is, the closer to parallel the lines run. The closer the vanishing point is, the more foreshortened it becomes.

While I've made note of certain things in my critique, I'm quite confident that you understood the concepts laid out here. I'll be marking this submission as complete, and let you move on to lesson 2.

Keep practicing previous exercises for warmups. Keep my critiques in my mind if you end up drawing boxes. All in all, well done!

Thank you for the critique! I noticed that I had trouble messing with box orientation even when drawing from my imagination, so that image helps a lot. Thank you for that inner corner diagram as well! I'll keep that in mind for any future box practice.

Congrats on completing Lesson 1 :) I’ll be taking a look at your submission.

• Starting off with Lines. Overall, you show an understanding of the superimposed line exercise. I do have to point out though that the start of a number of your lines are a bit messy, and look as though they're almost fraying. This is something we want to avoid, and we can do so by being very precise about where we place our pen before beginning to draw. I do see that the fraying is minimal, but it's something we want to keep in mind for future warmups with this exercise. There's wobbling and arcing with these lines, but generally this is to be expected. Using your shoulder joint can be tough at first, and it'll get better over time. Your ghosted lines show more improvement. Your ghosted planes show wobbling creeping back in, and I believe this is because of initial concern when it comes to drawing lines as part of a bigger whole. Remember; in DAB, confidence is much more important than accuracy. You want to keep your brain from overcorrecting your lines as much as possible. Build up the muscle memory, and then execute your line with confidence. These are all things that will improve with time, but I just wanted to bring it up.

• Moving on to Ellipses. You show overall understanding of this exercise. A number of your ellipses do show confidence and, but there are some that were only drawn through once. When drawing an ellipse, we want to draw through at least twice, and not above three. There's wobbling with these ellipses, but again this will improve over time with focused practice. Your ellipses in planes have a number of ellipses seemingly only drawn through once; see https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/drawingthrough. By drawing through, we build muscle memory and confidence when it comes to drawing ellipses. Additionally, a number of them seem deformed. We want to always remember our principles of markmaking, and prioritize even shapes and confident execution above all. Not being able to touch all four edges is fine so long as the ellipse is confident. Your ellipses in funnels show an understanding of the exercise, and you did well keeping the orientation of the ellipses as they moved out.

• Next up are Boxes. Your plotted perspective looks good, but I can see that there were issues with some back corner issues. This is likely a result of some vertical lines not being perfectly perpendicular to t he horizon. Mistakes can compound, and result in the back corner seeming warped. You want to give yourself more time to line up the ruler in this case. Overall though, you appear to have understood the use of vanishing points here. Your rough perspective also shows an understanding of what the exercise was teaching, You did well in regards to correction lines. Your lines suffered here though; we want to ghost as much as possible before executing a line so we're confident. Additionally some lines look redrawn, and we want to avoid doing that. Working through our mistakes is an important lesson to learn. For 1-dimensional exercises, like this one, we want our vertical lines to be straight up and down through the horizon. Our horizontal lines should be perfectly parallel. This can help avoid some of the wonkiness of the boxes.

• Rotated Boxes. Great job on this one! This is a notorious exercise. You were able to capture the actual rotations when moving the box, however I would like to point out that the corners appear to be missing. It's completely understandable considering the difficulty of this exercise, but in the future, try your best to not leave things blank. Working outside of our comfort zones is something we'll have to do often here, and oftentimes it can even involve working through mistakes. Other than that, nice work! We'll get a better idea of how to execute exercise like this in the box challenge

• Organic perspective. Nice work on this one. I can see that your box construction using the y-method is improving. You show an understanding of what the exercise was trying to get at, but I would like to point out that there's a few boxes floating off the line. Additionally, if you use this exercise in the future as warmup, I would like you to ghost hatching lines across one of the faces in the direction of the viewer as more practice with the ghosting method. We'll get a better idea of how to execute an exercise like this after the box challenge.

Overall: I believe this is a solid submission! You show understanding of what the exercises were trying to get at overall. My biggest critique is that you need to work on your execution of the ghosting method. Your linework shows signs of correcting as you're executing the line, and this goes for both lines and ellipses. I want you to do a 10-15 warmup before any drawing session where you focus on ghosting both lines https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ghostedlines and ellipses https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/drawingthrough, with more of a focus on lines. As I've said previously, confidence is the most important lesson when it comes to markmaking, and its what we prioritize above accuracy for DAB. Besides that, I do believe you are ready for the box challenge.

Congrats on completing Lesson 1 :) I’ll be taking a look at your submission.

• Starting off with Lines. Your superimposed show overall confidence. There's fraying and minor wobble present, but this will get better over time. You continue to show confidence in both ghosted line and planes. You do miss your mark from time to time, but this will improve with practice. Nice work.

• Moving on to Ellipses. Your tables of ellipses are looking good. They're drawn through confidently, and show good effort in varying degrees and sizes while also staying within the bounds of the table and other ellipses. The same can be said for your ellipses in planes. There's some inaccurate ellipses, but these are something that'll only get better over time. Your ellipses in funnels came out well overall. As you're doing a good job maintaining alignment, I would recommend integrating this optional step https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3 as practice when using this exercise as a warmup.

• Next up are Boxes. Your plotted perspective looks good. Your rough perspective shows an overall understanding of the exercise. There's some wobbling creeping in here. I think it's mostly as a result of concerns with accuracy since we're working with boxes now. You did improve later on, but I just wanted to reiterate that confidence is key.

• Rotated Boxes. You did quite well with this one! Nice job with keeping it close, and actually capturing the rotations. There are issues with the inner faces being messy, and your lines getting confused in the more perplexing areas like the lower left and right hand corners. Overall though, I think you did well. We'll learn how to better capture rotations in the box challenge.

• Organic perspective. Your organic perspective looks good. You showed understanding of what the exercise was trying to convey. Your linework improved as well. Some boxes look wonky, but this is to be expected. The box challenge will teach us how to better capture the shape of a box.

Overall: Good submission. You showed growth in terms of linework, and have confidence in drawing ellipses. There's always room for improvement, so continue integrating these exercises into your warmups. I believe you understand what these exercises are conveying, and are ready to move on to the box challenge.

Congrats on completing Lesson 1 :) I’ll be taking a look at your submission.

• Starting off with Lines. Your superimposed show overall confidence. There's fraying and minor wobble present, but this will get better over time. You continue to show confidence in both ghosted line and planes. You do miss your mark from time to time, but this will improve with mileage. Nice work.

• Moving on to Ellipses. Your tables of ellipses are looking really good! They're drawn through confidently, and show good effort in varying degrees and sizes while also staying within the bounds of the table and other ellipses. The same can be said for your ellipses in planes. There's some innacurate ellipses, but these are something that'll only get better over time. Your ellipses in funnels came out well overall. As you're doing a good job maintaining alignment, I would recommend integrating this optional step https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3 as practice when using this exercise as a warmup.

• Next up are Boxes. Your plotted perspective looks good. Your rough perspective shows an overall understanding of the exercise, but a mixture of both confident and wobbling lines. I can see that your lines got better as you got more mileage with this exercise, but you still miss your mark from time to time. This is alright, as confidence should be what we're prioritizing over accuracy. There's some minor slant present in these boxes. This is mostly a result of some vertical lines not being perfectly straight up and down to the horizon line, and horizontal lines not being perfectly horizontal. Try to aim for that when doing 2D exercises such as this one.

• Rotated Boxes (our favorite T^T). You made a good effort with this one. It's a difficult exercise so mistakes are expected. You did a good job of keeping box gaps narrow, but ran into the common issue of having the boxes converge onto a vanishing point rather than rotate https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/21/notrotating. We'll get a better idea of how to handle something like this through the box challenge

• Organic perspective. Your organic perspective is looking good. You appear to have much more confidence when ghosting through boxes. I like how you got some practice with line weight. This is something that we only get better at with practice, so integrating it here already was a good idea. A good number of your boxes are actually fairly structurally sound, and it can only get better with the box challenge.

Overall: Good submission. You showed growth in terms of your linework, and have a good start when it comes to ellipses. Keep drawing confidently, and accuracy will improve over time. There's always room for improvement, so make sure to integrate these exercises into your warmups. I believe you understood what these exercises try to convey, and are prepared to tackle the 250 box challenge.