Hazza065

Well done for starting your drawabox journey Killer. I am no expert but I'll leave my two cents in a hope it will help.

LINES

1) Your lines look, overall quite good, well done. There is some fraying at the end, however this will lessen over time. The most important thing is you draw from the shoulder confidently. And it seems you are doing that.

2) In your ghosted lines you often didn't start your line on the dot you had already placed. Again, if you don't hit the dot you were aiming for, but drew confidently, resulting in a straight line. That is fine. But you should always start your line on the dot.

3) Your ghosted planes are all good.

ELLIPSES

1)You going over your ellipses two times so well done there.

2) I can see the effort you are putting into ensure they are touching fitting in the spaces required well done.

3) The ellipses in your funnels are mostly split in half which is fantastic. However your minor axis tends to tilt away from its starting position. As in they start off facing upright, and they slowly twist over time. Keep an eye on this and continue to ghost and your ellipses will be getting better in no time.

BOXES

1) Your plotted perspective is all good.

2) Your rough perspective is fine. It may look bad, however thats how we learn, by making mistakes.

3) Rotated boxes was a good attempt. That is a very challenging task. I can see you stopped drawing through your boxes as they got further away from the centre. It does get very confusing with the amount of lines packed in, however it will help you resolve the 3d shape in space and is required almost always.

4) The organic perspective is fine. The only comment is to not be afraid to draw bigger on your boxes. Especially coming into the 250 box challenge.

Firstly I would like to say welcome to the drawabox journey, well done for starting of so strong.

So your line marking is looking really solid over all. You are placing your pen on the start markmost of the time and drawing confidently. Remember to think about the line before you place your pen, and when placing put it consciously on the beginning of your pine. You have overshot your mark at points, and this is perfectly ok. Confident drawing from the shoulder is the goal here and if you draw confidently and overshoot that is fine.

Your ghosted plances are well done, you have some wobbles coming in as you may be overthinking some of the lines. Remember once your pen is on the page, no more thinking, time for a confident stroke. You are already appying foreshortening aspects to the planes so your on the ball good job.I cant see many other things to comment on so onto ellipses.

Your ellipses started quite wobbly, however improved dramatically as you got more comfortable. We are after even ellipses number one then you can work to fit them into the spaces required. We dont want to bulge an ellipse to hit a corner it would not naturally hit. I know this is hard, but making mistakes like this means your learning, without mistakes, we dont learn. You have kept the minor axis consistent as well so keep it up. Your ghosted planes look real solid and you have successfully applied foreshortening to the ellipses which i a hard thing to do so well done. YOur funnels are also solid with consistent minor axes.

Your plotted perspectives are solid, these are some of the harder lines to draw confidently in the lesson but remember this is priority number one. Your rotated boxes are well done, and plotted boxes all have consistant foreshortening and follow the lines. Dont be afraid to draw some larger ones at the front, and your use of red pen to correct a mistake is perfect, no need to correct using the black pen, let it shine as a reminder that you are progressing.

Awesome work, keep it up and I'm excited for your journey ahead. Good luck with the 250 boxes, make a habitat of doing an amount that is manageable for you each day and you will fly through them.

Thank you very much for the feedback Elodin(love the name, also a huge Kingkiller fan).

The examples you have given have helped and ill make sure to use this info when I draw warm up boxes in the future.

Your critique was well structured and delivered 10/10 thank you :).

Yep that makes sense, I'll make sure to do that when I encounter this activity in warm ups.

Thanks again.

Thank you so much Benj, this is constructive and well thought out feedback which I appreciate immensely.

You hit the nail on the head with my issue on confidence over accuracy.

I was unsure on drawing through the boxes in the organic boxes as uncomfy doesnt do this in his examples on the lesson but good to know for the future.

Again appreciate feedback like this, really does make the community shine when we constructive advice such as this.

Yes this is correct.

Thanks for the help my friend.

I have decided to support on patreon and start again from scratch. As my first time through I only submitted maybe 25% of my work throughout. And who wouldnt want to draw another 250 boxes right? :)