10:58 AM, Tuesday January 28th 2025
Hi Simonp, thank you for your feedback. It has been very helpfull.
Hi Simonp, thank you for your feedback. It has been very helpfull.
Hello Yadav106, Congratulations on finishing lesson 3. I'll be giving you feedback, pointing out mistakes you've made as well as thing you did good.
Arrows
You make good use of foreshortening. The arrows get narrower and the bends are closer to each other towards the back giving a good sense of depth.
The shadows also look good. They clearly establish how your arrows twist and turn in space.
The arrowhead have bent lines. I recommend taking more time next time you draw those, putting down dots where the corners are going and then using the ghosting method to draw the straight lines of the arrowhead.
The added lineweight where the lines overlap each other, while done on the right places are a bit to heavy. Also they are made up of multiple scratchy lines. You only need a single stroke added to the existing line, using the ghosting method to overlap it as much as possible.
Leaves
The linework for your leaves is looking smooth which helps communicate their shape and movement in space.
Your addition of edge detail is generally looking good, as you generally construct your edge detail additively.
It's good to see you experimenting with more complex leave shapes. You've noted yourself that it's a failed experiment but that only means you are learning from it. I encourage you to keep experimenting with this in the future.
You make good use of the light to dark gradient from the last lesson in your detailing to establish what the texture is and which parts are in the shadow or turned away from the viewer.
Branches
Moving on to your branches they are coming along decently as you're following the instructions for the exercise. There are a lot of visible tails in these branches. While this is a very common mistake you can attempt to mitigate it by limiting the amount of ellipses in the branches. By spacing them further apart you'll allow for a bigger runway between ellipses and ensure a smoother transition between marks.
For ellipses it's good to see that you're always drawing through them twice. However the degree of the ellipses is very similar. They do get wider/narrower along the branches but you can push this a lot further to create more dynamic structures. Remember that as a form shifts in relation to the viewer, so will the degree of the ellipses within that structure also shift.
Plant construction
The plant construction is coming along nicely. You use the method as described which results in believable 3d shapes.
One that stood out to me is the aporocactus. The branches follow the same shape as in the picture but they all start just behind the edge of the pot, while in the picture the start of the branches are all over the surface of the soil. I advice to not only look at the shape of the branches but also where they start and end in relation to the pot. If you then add some ground/stone texture in the pot like you did around the potato plant and the other cactus It will make the drawing as a whole a lot more convincing.
It's good to see you give the plant pot a try. However I would advice you to draw it around a minor axis. This is part of a later lesson so it's no problem for now but it can't do wrong to practice the proper method when you come across cylinders.
Lastly you've used a drawing as reference for the mushroom. For the draw a box lessons you should use real world foto's as reference material. Once you understand how a real thing (mushroom in this case) is constructed it's easier to make convincing fantasy variation of said object like in this picture.
In general your work is looking really good, you're starting to understand the purpose of these techniques and exercises and making use of them in your work.
I'm going to be marking this lesson as complete. Good luck in Lesson 4.
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Hi Xirtaeb, Congratulations on finishing the 250 box challenge. That is quite a feat. I'll be giving you feedback. Pointing out mistakes you've made as well as things you did good.
Your lineworks looks very good from start to finish. The lines are straight and don't over or undershoot their mark. Hatching is also very consistent. I would suggest adding extra lineweight to the contour of the boxes as it sets the boxes better apart from the paper and it is good exercise for your line placing.
There is a bit of variation in the orientation of your boxes. I encourage you to push this further. Look at this diagram of different possible orientations. A lot of this comes down to changing the length and direction of your starting Y-shape.
There are a few odd boxes at the beginning (like 9, 14, 15, 30, 15) but these mistakes are all but gone towards the end.
As a side note. You don't have to draw the extension lines to the edge of the page. Or even to the vanishing point if it is far away. They just have to be long enough so you get an idea if they go in the same direction. This will make the pages look a bit cleaner and clearer to read.
Overall very nice work. Good luck with lesson 2
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Hi Chieftang, Thanks a ton for your review. I did really enjoy the process of figuring out which base shapes make up the animals bodies and I guess it shows.
You make good points, especially about the eyes. I'll make sure to think about that next time I'm drawing animals.
Hello Javonetor, Congratulations on finishing lesson 2. I'll be giving you feedback, pointing out mistakes you've made as well as thing you did good.
Organic arrows
Your linework is really good. The lines look confident and flow nicely.They also compress well. They get gradually smaller towards the back.
The shading lines should go parallel to the line connecting the two strokes of the ribbon. This went wrong on the arrow at the top left of the first page and the two in the center of the second page. On the other arrows it looks good.
The added line thickness also look neat with one single stroke on top of the existing line.
Organic intersections
The lines look good. The sausage shapes are drawn in one continuous stroke and the ellipses are drawn through multiple times.
Some of the sausage shapes taper off to the back. In this exercise we want them to have a consistent width over the whole length. You could try ghosting these shapes if you haven's already. And if that doesn't work try to plot with a few dots the general sausage shape, so when they ghost they have a few guidelines.
Most of the ellipses have a very similar degree of rotation like this. There is some variation but you can push it a lot further.
Texture analysis
There is a nice gradient from dark to light. In the first gradient the black bar on the left is a bit sudden. Otherwise this looks good.
If you have one you can use a black brush pen or marker to fill in the black area's. This saves a lot of time and creates a proper black surface with no white in between like you have now.
Dissections
The dissections look very good. The textures follow the shape of the sausage nicely and you make good use of the silhouette to show your texture.
The textures have the same intensity of darkness over the whole area. This is where you put the light to dark gradient from the last exercise to use, making them darker towards the edges and lighter in the middle to communicate that the surface is turned away from the source of light.
Form intersections
Your linework on the base shapes looks good with clean confident strokes. This goes for the hatching as well.
I don't see major mistakes in the intersections. You look like you have a good understanding in how shapes interact in 3D space.
There are only small corners of the shapes that intersect. When you do this exercise as a warm up in the future I suggest you push your shapes further by making them overlap more so you get bigger intersections.
Organic intersections
For the first time in this lessons you lines look wobbly. These are more difficult to draw than the previous sausage shapes because they interact with each other but just like the others they should be drawn with smooth confident lines. It doesn't matter if they are inaccurate as that will improve with practice. Your priority should be clean lines.
Some of the sausages of the second page seem to be floating. A good thing to do is to think of them as if they're water balloons, and try to think about how they would fall on top of the other forms, drawing their final positions.
Overall very nice work. You are ready to continue with lesson 3.
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Hello Gstarmania, Congratulations on finishing lesson 2. I'll be giving you feedback, pointing out mistakes you've made as well as thing you did good.
Organic arrows
Your linework is good. The lines look confident and flow nicely. There are a few occasions where you draw the same line multiple times to fix a mistake. Try to avoid this.
The shadows are a bit dark at times but not too much of a problem. Also the shading lines should go parallel to the line connecting the two strokes of the ribbon like you did on the top right arrow of the second page. This went wrong on the arrow at the bottom right of both pages.
Organic intersections
The lines look good. The sausage shapes are drawn in one continuous stroke and the ellipses are drawn through multiple times.
Some of the sausage shapes taper off to the back. In this exercise we want them to have a consistent width over the whole length. You could try ghosting these shapes if you haven's already. And if that doesn't work try to plot with a few dots the general sausage shape, so when they ghost they have a few guidelines.
Most of the ellipses have a very similar degree of rotation like this. There is some variation but you can push is a lot further.
Texture analysis
Dissections
Most of the textures look flat. When drawing these imagine how the texture looks when wrapped around the sausage shape. This is also where you put the light to dark gradient from the last exercise to use. You did this correctly on the suction cups next to the tree trunk but the others missed out.
For some of them you make good use of the silhouette to show your texture.
Form intersections
Your linework on the base shapes looks good. Hatching also looks good. Just like the first exercise there are a few points where you go over the same line multiple times where it is not necessary though.
I don't see major mistakes in the intersections. You look like you have a good understanding in how shapes interact in 3D space.
Organic intersections
Some of the ends of the sausage shapes seem to be floating. A good thing to do is to think of them as if they're water balloons, and try to think about how they would fall on top of the other forms, drawing their final positions.
The shadows that are cast on other sausages stick too much to the shape that casts them rather than following the surface they project on.
Overall very nice work. You are ready to continue with lesson 3.
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Hello Yadav106, Congratulations on finishing lesson 2. I'll be giving you feedback, pointing out mistakes you've made as well as thing you did good.
Organic arrows
The arrows are drawn with one continuous stroke nicely. It is at times a bit wobbly however. This should improve with practice. Just remember to always use the ghosting method until you are confident the line will come out properly.
This also goes for the added line thickness and shading. Use the ghosting method for every single line. Also the shading lines should go parallel to the line connecting the two strokes of the ribbon like you did in the top left arrow of the first page, not along the flow of the ribbon like you did in the bottom right arrow of the first page.
The arrows compress nicely. They get gradually smaller towards the back.
Organic intersections
The lines look good. The sausage shapes are drawn in one continuous stroke and the ellipses are drawn through multiple times.
Some of the sausage shapes taper off to the back. In this exercise we want them to have a consistent width over the whole length. You could try ghosting these shapes if you haven's already. And if that doesn't work try to plot with a few dots the general sausage shape, so when they ghost they have a few guidelines.
Most of the ellipses have a very similar degree of rotation like this. Try to vary this a bit more.
Texture analysis
Dissections
Form intersections
Your linework on the base shapes looks good.
The added lineweight and hatching have the same problem as they did in the arrows exercise. The lineweight exists from multiple smaller lines. Just like all other lines place these as one confident stroke.
You have placed the hatching on multiple faces of the same shape and in multiple directions. Hatching works best if you add it to only one face per object and in the same direction. Imagine a light source shining on your objects and add hatching only on the opposite side of that.
I don't see major mistakes in the intersections. You look like you have a good understanding in how shapes interact in 3D space.
Organic intersections
Some of the ends of the sausage shapes seem to be floating. A good thing to do is to think of them as if they're water balloons, and try to think about how they would fall on top of the other forms, drawing their final positions.
There is the same issue with the added lineweight as I mentioned before.
The shadows look good though. They follow the form of the object they're being casted on nicely.
Overall very nice work. You are ready to continue with lesson 3.
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Hi Wiredfilth, Congratulations on finishing your first Drawabox lesson. I'll be giving you feedback, pointing out mistakes you've made and how to improve them, as well as the things you did good.
Lines
Your lines are pretty wobbly. When drawing lines remember to use the ghosting method, keep your eye on the target where the line is going to and take your time. Putting down smooth confident lines is more important than accurate.
Continue doodling and making other drawings, but please don't draw them through the assignment.
Ellipses
You draw through the ellipses twice as is asked.
The ellipses stick to their bounds nicely. The occasionally under- or overshoot their bounds a bit but nothing major.
The ellipses in funnels are aligned to the minor axes properly.
Boxes
Your rough perspective boxes have a consistent shape and especially on the second page are aimed at the vanishing point nicely.
The dots that mark the start and end points of your lines are a bit heavy. I would suggest making them smaller.
The rotated boxes exercise looks very good which is quite a feat considering how difficult this exercise is.
Your organic boxes consistently decrease in size as they move back. Perspective also looks good in this exercise.
The wobbly lines from the first few exercises are still (to a lesser extent) present in the boxes. I suggest moving forward to make drawing consistent and smooth lines your main focus. You'll have plenty of time to practice this during warmup exercises and throughout the other lessons.
Other than that your lesson one looks very good. You're ready to continue to the 250 box challenge.
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Add the lesson 1 exercises to the pool of warmup exercises.
Continue to the 250 box challenge.
Hi Bavulture, Congratulations on finishing the 250 box challenge. I'll be giving you feedback. Pointing out mistakes you've made as well as thing you did good.
Your lineworks looks very confident. The lines are straight and don't over or undershoot their mark. Hatching also looks very consistent. I would suggest adding extra lineweight to the contour of the boxes as it sets the boxes better apart from the paper and it is good exercise for your line placing.
There is a bit of variation in the orientation of your boxes. I encourage you to push this further. Look at this diagram of different possible orientations. A lot of this comes down to changing the length and direction of your starting Y-shape.
Some of your boxes (nrs. 170, 180, 186, 214, 216, 225, 230, 235 to name a few) look a bit warped. This is due to one of the angles of the initial Y-shape being smaller than 90°. When using this method of drawing boxes the starting Y-shape always has it's lines at angles greater than 90°.
Overall very nice work. Good luck with lesson 2
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Always happy to help a fellow drawing enthousiast :)
With perspective I mean that the lines move in the right direction toward the vanishing points. When I say you vary your perspective I guess I should say you vary in foreshortening.
Orientation is the direction from which you look at the box, or how the box is angled towards the viewer. When you draw a perfect Y shape with all the lines at a 120° angle from eachother you get a box where you look directly on the corner of that box. But when two of the lines are close to 90° (but never less than that) you make a box where you look at the face side.
The 3rd box down and to the right in this diagram shows a box in the first orientation while the one above it is an example of the second.
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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