LilEgo

Appreciate the timely review and kind words! Hope to hear from you again for lesson 2.

Hey Timothy, good to hear from you again.

I'll go over it quickly. Your rotated boxes are looking better. You're having some difficulty on the outer boxes but that's to be expected, you're getting much better at understanding how the vp's change with rotation. Your ellipses are looking excellent with some very confident looking strokes.

Unfortunately you seem to have misunderstood the double-checking step on the rough perspectives exercise a bit. You're doing the boxes correctly by guessing the VP but you're just checking the work wrong. The VP lines are supposed to follow your box's line.

Your exercise should have looked like this: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/ac56f948.jpg

And not like this:

https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/aac45bf4.jpg

Don't worry though I'm not gonna request that you redo it because I think you pretty much got the gist of the exercise for estimating perspective. You'll definitely get plenty more in the 250 box challenge. Maybe consider throwing this exercise into your warmups a few times, but otherwise good job and good luck in the 250 box challenge!

Hey, good job on finishing the first lesson. Full disclosure I am still on the 250 box exercise but I think I can help you.

Your superimposed lines look good. You're hitting the starting point consistently with some fraying at the ends which is normal. I can tell you're drawing with your whole arm because you have smooth, confident strokes with little wavering on your superimposed lines and your ghosted lines. You're undershooting and overshooting with some of your ghosted lines but that's to be expected and will be improved with more practice and muscle memory.

Your planes look good as well, the ellipses in planes exercise was supposed to be done on your ghosted planes pages, but I see you did another set anyway. If you want, you can fill in your planes with ellipses for more practice. I see lots of improvement in your planes lines though, good job.

Your ellipses table looks good. You're confident in making smooth ellipses and you're staying fairly close to the edges. Try changing the shape of some of your ellipses next time you practice them in your warm ups, you can practice thinner ellipses and even circles AKA fat ellipses. Likewise your funnels look good and consistent, and you're touching the edges nicely with uniformly divided ellipses.

Plotted perspective looks good, not much else to say here.

Your rough perspective exercise shows promise. You have a good gist of estimating your VPs and accuracy will inevitably be improved with the 250 box challenge. I'm noticing some more wavering lines as you're probably being more careful plotting your boxes. This isn't too big a deal, just make sure that you're still ghosting lines with your whole arm and not your wrist- even for the smaller lines.

Your rotated boxes are excellent imo. Obviously there are some inaccuracies with the VPs but that's to be expected with this difficult exercise. I can tell you're aiming for the correct VPs and you're staying close to the borders. Perfecting the rotating boxes and fully comprehending the perspectives will come in time with practice. Looks really good.

Your organic perspective exercise looks good, your lines are parallel for the most part. I can tell you've improved a lot on the accuracy of your ghosted lines. You have a lot of boxes with parallel VPs which is totally fine but you should try to incorporate closer VPs and practice some dramatic foreshadowing in your 250 boxes challenge.

All in all great job! Good luck in the 250 boxes challenge!

Hey, congrats on finishing the first assignment. I can tell you took special care to be extra thorough with the exercises. Full disclosure I am still on the 250 boxes challenge but I believe I can help you. I'm going to recommend you redo some of the exercises but keep in mind I'm not an official critic so following my recommendations is up to you entirely.

Starting off your superimposed lines look consistent and you're making sure to accurately hit your starting point. You seem to be having some issues with wobbling on those really long superimposed lines, probably due to the issues you talked about with being unsure of where your marks are going.

Also, just in case you didn't know, this course requires that for most of these early lessons you are to be making every mark with your whole arm- shoulder and elbow, and not with your wrist. Even when making small marks. I believe the first time you are allowed to use your wrist for fine detail is during the texture exercise in Lesson 2.

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

You are probably going a bit slow judging by the amount of wobbling, try thinking of drawing superimposed lines with your "whole arm" and moving a bit faster, aiming towards that 2nd point mark. You can practice this by focusing a bit less on whether or not your superimposed line is touching your original line, and instead looking ahead of your line and aiming for your 2nd point. You may see some curving lines or more fraying at the beginning, but the arm motions I'm recommending will see you to improve overall as you develop muscle memory with practice. Otherwise your lines are still very consistent and accurate and show excellent line confidence in your later exercises, so good job.

Your planes show a lot of improvement in your line confidence. You do a great job at centering the intersecting lines. Unfortunately you seemed to have missed the Ellipses in Planes exercise, which has you filling in all those planes you made with ellipses touching each edge. It's a very quick assignment you should finish in a few minutes. Otherwise good job on the planes.

Your ellipses are looking good. You are getting very consistent closeness with other ellipses and you're keeping them fairly uniform. You're making motions with a good deal of confidence which is great. The axis line on your funnels looks like you ghosted them, for this exercise you can use a ruler or straight edge to measure the axis to keep them consistent. They're just a reference point. Not much more to say here, keep incorporating ellipses and funnels in your warmups.

Plotted perspective looks good.

You seem to have missed some instructions on the Rough Perspectives exercise. You are meant to be ghosting every box in that assignment without any perspective lines, and then plotting the parallel lines of your box towards the horizon line to see your inaccuracies and tendencies in your mistakes. You should probably redo this exercise.

Refer to "Mistake: Plotting Lines back to VP" :https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/15/plottinglines

You don't seem to be getting rotation on some of your boxes in your Rotated Boxes exercise. It seems this is because you are plotting your boxes to a VP. You are meant to use NO VPs other than the axis you made in the center. Every box is ghosted in this assignment and has different VPs along the axis which allows for rotation. The boxes at the end are simply for rotational reference, not for plotting VPs. I would recommend redoing this exercise. Don't get discouraged though! This exercise is meant to be extremely difficult at our level and it's just an exercise to get us familiar with rotating boxes.

Refer to Uncomfortable's article on not rotating: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating

Your Organic Perspective boxes look really good. They're consistently proportional, to my eye at least. You seem to be using a lot of parallel VPs for these boxes, which is totally fine, but try practicing boxes with some more dramatic foreshadowing by using multiple close VPs. You'll have plenty of time to practice this in the 250 box challenge though.

All in all great job! Don't get discouraged on redoing the assignments, it's hard for a lot of us to fully comprehend all the lessons, it gets overwhelming and that makes following instructions very confusing. But that's what the critiques are for! I see a lot of growth and strengths in your exercises. Keep up the good work and don't forget your 50% time!

Thanks Rob! You are greatly encouraging and thorough as always. I'll be sure to keep ellipses and funnels in my warmups. Hope to hear from you again in the future.