Kripzsa

Thank you very much for the thorough feedback (, your kind words and for answering my question; it's good to know for sure that my slower pace is not a problem)!

It is very helpful and I'm making sure to take all the advices to heart, and actively work towards incorporating them in my future work.

((Also, I'll keep in mind to keep self-assessment for myself when submitting homework in the future))

Hi there,

Let's start with your lines:

At the super imposed lines exercise you have fraying on both sides on some tries, so just make sure that you take your time when you are aligning your pen before executing your lines.

There's also occasional wobble in your lines, that's especially noticeable on some of your ghosted planes; in Drawabox you should always prioritize confidence over accuracy, the latter will get better with practice.

Moving on to your ellipses:

Your tables of ellipses look really good! They aren't drawn through more than 3 times and you've even kept most of it to 2 passes later on and that's even better, plus most of them are fit snug in bounds, touching each other and are done with confidence.

In the funnels exercise the minor axes cut the ellipses in halves and are getting bigger as they get further away from the center as well as they should. (Though one thing, in future warm-ups when doing this exercise, feel free to draw the minor axes with a ruler, no need to do it free-handed as it's not the focus of it)

Truly great stuff :D

And lastly, let's take a look at your boxes:

I've noticed in your rough perspective exercises that you sometimes repeat your lines in an attempt to correct them. Please try to ditch this habit, as I've mentioned it before prioritize confidence over accuracy, so even if you miss your mark just move on as it was done correctly while doing DaB homework. Giving yourself more time to ghost lines might be beneficial, but it's up to you, just don't forget to keep things confident ^^

Your rotated boxes turned out great imo!

The boxes keep rotating as they should, the corners are kept close and the boxes are drawn through.

However, there's one thing that you might want to pay some attention to is that some of your lines, especially the ones closer to the outside, arch a bit. If this isn't on purpose then you could try consciously arching in the opposite direction while drawing the lines, that usually helps. Although if it was on purpose: While arching the lines might look good it's not the focus of this exercise and should be avoided in the future when doing this as a warm-up.

But other that that it's a really solid execution of the exercise; keep up the good work!

The organic perspective exercise is done nicely as well:

You had some healthy overlaps in there, no dramatic foreshortening and the boxes get smaller as they get farther in space.

Overall I think this is a really solid submission,

congrats on making it through Lesson 1! :3

Howdy,

I'll be reviewing your submission today.

Let's start with your Lines

Super Imposed Lines:

• I can see a few cases where there are fraying on both ends of the lines; while having only the far end fray is not a big problem and you'll get better at it with time, please take your time to start your strokes from the same position in future warmups, as it is important to be deliberate about the lines we make.

  (https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/1585f266.jpg)

• Other than that, I can see your lines getting better throughout the exercises

Ghosted Lines:

Overall you've done a good job with this exercise.

• You (probably :p) rotated your page to get lines in different angles right, you are putting down the dots too and there are a lot of confident lines in there!

• There are some wobbly and/or arched lines here and there but as you've proceeded with the lesson the number of these got significantly lower

Ghosted Planes:

• You did a great work with this exercise. Well done!

Ellipses

Your ellipses are only drawn through two times which is great and they aren't overlapping too much either, however in the Ellipses in Planes exercise some of your ellipses are a bit elongated: they are touching all four sides of the planes as required but not quite at the right places; it should touch near where the lines of the non-diagonal cross reach the edge of the plane. (I've made some red lines on some of the "squished" ones that I'm talking about: https://imgur.com/a/Osmq1DD my ones aren't perfect either but here are some more example of what I mean: https://imgur.com/a/O83pifd ) Albeit the emphasis isn't on accuracy in this exercise, so it's not a big problem, just a thing to keep in my during future attempts at it.

In the Funnels exercise your minor axes are not centred, most likely bc you didn't draw the major axes as wide as the funnels' width, in future attempts please try and put the minor axis in the middle-ish as it helps a lot to align your ellipses to it correctly, if you did it correctly it should cut your ellipses into 2 symmetrical halves; other than that almost all of your funnels are pretty good as the ellipses follow the same minor axis in most of them. (https://imgur.com/a/pwHejVW) (Optionally in future tries when you feel more confident you can try increasing the degree of them as you get further from the middle)

Boxes

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean and you've done a good job w/ the rough perspective one!

The rotated boxes exercise is mostly good. It’s big (huge positive) that the boxes are snug, and properly drawn through. There’s some issues in regards to their rotation (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/notrotating) but this is a really hard exercise and most of them do rotate so it's not a huge problem!

And last but not least the organic perspective exercise:

Your boxes rotate a fare bit plus increase and decrease in size according to how far in space they are, Great work! :D

One thing though that I'd like to point out is that you shouldn't be correcting lines you've drawn, however this only showed up in this last exercise throughout your whole submission, so I assume you know the importance of not correcting them, and that it only happened bc of the difficulty of this exercise which is understandable, but refrain from doing this in future submissions.

To sum it up, this is a really good submission over all! Keep up the good work and feel free to move on to Lesson 2! ^-^

Here you can find the additional boxes

Thanks for telling me about the self assessment stuff, I'll keep that in mind! (and of course, thanks for the time and effort you put into reviewing my homework! :D)

Also, I've checked my scanner's settings and I've been using photo mode, but I've discovered that it had some image processing settings turned on by default (namely: image compression and sharpen outline), so I've turned them off and increased the dpi from 300 to 400, so please let me know if the scans are any better now.

I've made sure to study/follow all the links/instructions you've provided, and reread the challenge page, plus revisited the ghosting section for a quick revision too.

Hey, no problem!

Thanks again for taking your time and critiquing my sub!

I'll def try and make some useful critique on others' submissions in my free time!

Have a good one!

Hi!

Thank you so much for taking your time and looking at my submission!

Also, sorry for the very late answer. (Holidays really mixed my plans up ^^")

https://imgur.com/a/0ZPqiN2

I've finished the additional boxes and I did +5 because I accidentally drew around 5 that has parallel edges. I apologise if the boxes are a bit messy, the markers I drew them with are a bit worn and so I couldn't draw many lines first try since the markers wouldn't make the marks.

Non the less, I hope these will suffice.

Thanks again for giving critique!

Thank you so much for the review Benj!!

I'll definitely have to step up my ellipse game and I should also stop correcting my lines. ^-^"

Thanks again! :D