DrawingJerry

Alright thank you for the critique and clearing up the issue with the boxes challenge! Really appreciate it.

Hi ElevenSeventeen. I'm DrawingJerry and I'll to be critiquing your submission.

So here's how it's going to go. I'm going to be critiquing your work in 3 big chunks: Lines, Ellipsis, and Boxes. I'll be pointing out areas to improve and other nitbits that I feel should be mentioned.

• LINES

Your lines aren't fraying on both ends on your Super Imposed Lines, and I can't see any repeated lines on your Ghosted Lines and planes. You also seemed to have plotted all your lines. Great Job!

But I do see some areas that you could improve. Notably your line confidence. Most of your ghosted lines and planes are pretty wobbly. In drawabox you should always prioritize confidence over accuracy, so try to focus more on making your lines straight rather than focusing on connecting the dots accurately.

Here's some resources to help you out:

https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/3/smooth

https://discord.com/channels/365036548820959242/368870697742630912/1081537593373642842

• ELLIPSIS

Before I go into my critique, I want to congratulate you on finishing all 5 pages of the ellipsis exercise! Ellipsis are hard to draw and these exercises are always a nightmare to finish(at least for me lol) so give yourself a pat on the back for your hard work. Anyway getting back on topic, you've drawn through your ellipsis twice as instructed and you seemed to have made an effort to draw them as tightly together as possible. However, just like your lines, your ellipsis also lack confidence. Most of them are pretty wobbly. Also I suggest that you try to fit your ellipsis more snuggly next time you do your funnel exercises as your warm ups.

• Boxes

Your Plotted perspective is great. If I had to point one thing out, the hatching on your boxes(The black part) should be done using the ghosted method. So keep that in mind when you redo this exercise for your warm up.

In your Rough Perspective exercise, your width and height lines are both parallel and perpendicular to the horizon line, and you also used line corrections. Great job!

You don't seem to have finished your rotated boxes and Organic perspective exercises, so I'm going to have to ask you to do those again.

For reference, this is what a finished page of rotated boxes and organic perspective looks like:

https://imgur.com/NMeSOlY

https://imgur.com/gallery/dUHyRj4

Don't focus too much on how your boxes look. Just try to finish the exercise to the best of your ability :)

Overall, great work! and congratulations for finishing your first lesson on Drawabox! I am going to have to ask you to do some revisions, as previously mentioned.

Hi there Castur! I'll be critiquing your work today.

Lines

1. Super Imposed Lines: Your super imposed lines are clean and confident! Your lines also aren't fraying on both ends or arching. Good job!

2. Ghosted lines : Your lines here are also very confident and show very little wobbling. However, the lines seem to be floating on the page. Your lines should always be connected to your starting dot, next time make sure that you place your pen carefully at the beginning of each line when drawing each line.

3. Ghosted Planes: All of your lines confident here as well, but you don't seem to have plotted the lines inside your planes.

https://imgur.com/a/G9NTcRU

Make sure you plot by placing dots before drawing your lines.

Here's a demonstration: https://imgur.com/a/Ktk7ovS

Ellipses

1. Table of Ellipses: Your ellipses are very good. They are touching the edges nicely, and you've gone over them two times. There is also little to no wobbling in you ellipses. well done!

2. Ellipses in Planes: Your ellipses are touching the edges of the planes nicely, which is exactly what we're looking for in this exercise. Well done!

3. Funnels: Your ellipses are touching the curves nicely. You aren't overshooting or undershooting. The ellipses are also cut in half by the axis of the funnel, and their degree varies depending on their position. Good job!

Boxes

1. Plotted Perspective: You drew through all your boxes, and used hatching to show which planes are facing the viewer. Your hatching is also very neat and makes your boxes look nice. Great work!

2. Rough Perspective: Your lines are confident, you've drawn through your boxes, and the height lines and width line are relatively perpendicular and parallel to the horizon line. You've also used the line correction method. One thing you could do when you redo this exercise as a warm-up is to add some hatching to your boxes. Overall, great job!

3. Rotated Boxes: You kept the corners between boxes close and rotated the boxes correctly. You also drew through all of your boxes. Your hatching is nice and neat and makes your boxes stand out better. You did an amazing job in spite of the difficulty of this exercise! Great Job!

4. Organic Perspective: Your lines here are confidently drawn. You have a variety of box sizes and you also added line weight to your boxes and also tried overlapping some boxes. However, some things you could have improved upon is:

(1) Add more boxes. Your boxes are a little sparse here, and you can learn a lot more by drawing more of them.

Overall, I think you did an awesome job for the majority of your exercises. You stuck to this lesson until the end and you should be very proud of yourself! I could also see that you have improved greatly over time! I think you are ready to take on the 250 boxes challenge. Good luck!

Thank you for the critique!

I'll try adding some line weight to my boxes next time :)

Looking over your work I can see that your lines are all incredibly wobbly.

It seems that you haven't quite gotten the hang of drawing your lines confidently.

There are 3 things that may be causing this problem.

1. Are you drawing these lines with your arm?

If not, I recommend that you start using your arm when you draw. It may be uncomfortable, and it may take some time to get

used to, but once you do, your lines will visibly improve.

Here is the link to the lesson that goes over this topic in more detail.

https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/2

2. Are you ghosting properly when drawing these lines?

Your lines can come out wobbly if you are not ghosting enough times or if you are not ghosting entirely

You should ghost your lines until that action is ingrained into your short-term muscle memory , but If you are unsure when this happens I recommend that you ghost through your lines 10-15 times.

Feel free to ghost through your lines more if you feel that 10-15 times isn't sufficient enough.

Here is the link to the lesson that goes over this topic in more detail.

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

3. Are you executing your lines without hesitation and with confidence?

It seems that the wobbly lines are a result of you trying to accurately connect the dots when you draw the line.

While accuracy is important, line confidence should be achieved First.

And in this case, you trying to achieve accuracy is getting in the way of improving your line confidence

So when you draw your lines, Focus more on trying to make your lines straight more than accurate.

For now, it doesn't matter if your lines don't connect the dots correctly, so draw your line in one quick confident motion.

https://www.animatorisland.com/tips-for-drawing-turning-off-your-brain/lineconfidence/

Nicely Done!

The boxes on the organic perspective exercise seem to have a little to much foreshortening, and the boxes seem a little to sparse, so next time I would recommend drawing more boxes and making the convergences of the lines a little less extreme.