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Hello! Congrats on your first submission in Drawabox. I'm Meap and I will critique your work today :3.

Lines:

Overall, your lines are consistent, not wobbly, very clear signs of confidence! After you have nailed the first two level for your lines, another small tip that can help you improve the accuracy (can be applied for all the lines you make in the future): First, take as much time and attempts needed for your ghosting method. Next, when you're confident enough to execute the line, focus your eye on the end point and shoot your line instead of following your eye along with the pen. This is just a personal tip so you can try to see if it works for you as well.

Ellipses:

I would recommend you in the future warm-ups to draw through the ellipses either 2 or 3 times only. More than that would cause your finished work seems unnecessarily messy and scratchy. Other than that, overall, nice job! Your ellipses are mostly evenly shaped and consistent. I can tell you did thrive trying to fit the ellipses against the borders, the funnels, and the planes.

Boxes

1. Plotted Perspective

• The lesson requires one page only for this exercise. So remember to take your time reading the instructions and the requirements carefully. Beside that, you did great on this one.

2. Rough Perspective

• Based on the lines that you shown in this exercise, I assume a few lines are being drawn over again to improve your previous stray lines. This may happen due to not applying the ghosting method as thoroughly as you could be. It's better to take as much time as you need before committing one, confident line. But everything else looks good.

3. Rotated Boxes

• You did a great job on this one! Clearly shown you follow the core steps of the exercise. Some lines are a bit wobbly so remember to always prioritize confidence over accuracy and draw from your shoulder. The gaps between your boxes are tight and consistent. Not to mention your boxes are rotated very nicely. You seem to be missing 4 boxes in the corners though.

4. Organic perspective

• I assume a few lines of the boxes are being drawn over again to improve your previous stray lines in this one too? If so, then the critique will remain the same with the Rough Perspective exercise. There are some cases of divergence and overly dramatic foreshortening. You may need to give yourself more time to think through the planning phase of their lines (during which you place your various points). Highly encourage you to do so when moving onto the 250 box challenge. A nice attempt of hatching here; however, the lines are bunched together pretty tightly. This isn't a huge problem, but it might be resulting in uneven spacing and/or wobble on the box planes. Spreading those lines out a bit could help achieve smooth lines and give yourself enough space to work with to establish uniform hatching. Remember to apply the ghosting method for the lines of the hatching as well.

Overall, I can tell you have a pretty decent grasp on perspective. Your lines are gradually more confident and consistent over each exercise as well. You can definitely start incorporating these exercises as your warms-up and moving onto the 250 boxes challenge now!

Hello! Congrats on your first submission in Drawabox. I'm Meap and I will critique your work today :3.

Lines:

Superimposed Lines

• Lines are quite consistent, not wobbly, and only frays at the far end (which is normal at this stage so no worries). This can be improved with enough practice as warm-up exercises in the future. A small tip that can solve this problem (can be applied for all the lines exercises as well): First, take as much time and attempts needed for your ghosting. Next, when you're confident enough to execute the line, focus your eye on the end point and shoot your line instead of following your eye along with the pen. This is just a personal tip so you can try to see if it works for you as well.

Ghosted Lines

• Really good job on this one :3. Lines are consistent with no signs of arcing too.

Ghosted Planes

• Lines are confident and not wobbly so that's good! Do not worry too much on not nailing your designated marks or falling off the trajectory of the lines. This can be improved through further practice as warm-ups and the upcoming 250 boxes challenge. Remember to draw from your shoulder and take as much time as you need when applying the ghosting method.

Overall, well done.

Ellipses:

Tables of Ellipses

• Your ellipses fit snugly against the borders of the table. And the ellipses are evenly shaped and smoothly executed too.

Ellipses in Planes

• Nice attempt to try having your ellipses to touch all 4 edges. Most are evenly shaped and consistent.

Funnels

• Ellipses are fitting nicely against the sides of the funnels. Unfortunately, your ellipses are not aligned to the central minor axis line. Your central minor axis line (the smaller line in the middle) should not be cutting through your ellipses and instead should cut into two equal, symmetrical halves down their narrower dimension by it. I would recommend you follow the steps that are shown on the video since it's a bit easier to understand and visualize.

Boxes

Plotted Perspective

• Remember to keep your verticals perpendicular to the horizon (especially those lines of yours at the back of the box). Give yourself more time when lining up your ruler.

Rough Perspective

• I think you did pretty good. Your front and back faces of the boxes are composed of horizontals that are parallel to the horizon line, and verticals that are perpendicular to it.

Rotated Boxes

• Considering the difficulty of this exercise, I commend your attempt. I think my only nitpick is that one box at the top left corner seems to be unfinished. But other than that, I can tell you followed the core steps of the exercises and the gaps between your boxes are tight and consistent.

Organic perspective

• I could tell you spent a good amount of time for the planning phase so the boxes show little to no divergence cases. Definitely keeps that up for the upcoming 250 boxes challenge. A nice attempt of hatching as well; however, the lines are bunched together pretty tightly. This isn't a huge problem, but it might be resulting in uneven spacing and/or wobble on the box planes. Spreading those lines out a bit could help achieve smooth lines and give yourself enough space to work with to establish uniform hatching. Remember to apply the ghosting method for the lines of the hatching too.

Overall, you did a great job. Just another page of funnels and you're ready to move onto the 250 boxes challenge. And uhhh, it's normal to make mistakes when learning something so don't beat yourself too much about it btw ;v;). What matters is your actions toward them. So, as long as you're willing to learn from your mistakes and prevent them in the future, you're all good :3.

Heyy heyy! Congrats on your first submission in Drawabox. I'm Meap and I will critique your work today :3.

Lines:

Superimposed Lines

• Lines are quite consistent, not wobbly, and only frays at the far end (which is normal at this stage so no worries). This can be improved with enough practice as warm-up exercises in the future. A small tip that can solve this problem (can be applied for all the lines exercises): First, take as much time and attempts needed for your ghosting. Next, when you're confident enough to execute the line, focus your eye on the end point and shoot your line instead of following your eye along with the pen. This is just a personal tip so you can try to see if it works for you as well.

Ghosted Lines

• Really good job on this one :3. Lines are consistent with little signs of arcing too.

Ghosted Planes

• Lines are confident and not wobbly.

Overall, well done. I can see your lines improved throughout the exercises.

Ellipses:

Tables of Ellipses

• Most of your ellipses fit snugly against the borders of the table. And the ellipses are mostly evenly shaped and smoothly executed too.

Ellipses in Planes

• Nice attempt to try having your ellipses to touch all 4 edges. Only a few seems a bit wobbly so always remember to take as much time as you needed for the ghosting method and engage your whole arm from the shoulder.

Funnels

• Ellipses are fitting nicely against the sides of the funnels. Some are still a bit wobbly so remember to prioritize the even shape/confident execution above all else.

Overall, nice job.

Boxes

Plotted Perspective

• Remember that your verticals are supposed to perpendicular to the horizon (especially those lines of yours at the back of the box). I assume your hatchings in this are free hand cause they seem wobbly and don't start and end at the right designated points :(. The hatchings in this exercises are supposed to be executed with a ruler too so remember to read the lesson instruction carefully.

Rough Perspective

• Remember that your front and back faces of the boxes should be composed of horizontals that are parallel to the horizon line, and verticals that are perpendicular to it.

Rotated Boxes

• I would say my only nitpick is that one box at the top left corner isn't rotated correctly. Besides that, it seems like you followed the core step, the gaps between the boxes are tight and consistent too.

Organic perspective

• Little cases of divergence. A very nice attempt of hatching here; however, the lines are bunched together pretty tightly. This isn't a huge problem, but it might be resulting in uneven spacing and/or wobble on the box planes. Spreading those lines out a bit could help achieve smooth lines and give yourself enough space to work with to establish uniform hatching. Definitely encourage you to do so when moving onto the 250 box challenge.

Overall, I can tell you have a pretty decent grasp on perspective. Your lines are gradually more confident and consistent over each exercise as well. You can definitely start incorporating these exercises as your warms-up and conquer the 250 boxes challenge now!

Great job! These one definitely improves. Although there are still a few of ellipses breaking out of the funnels slightly, I can at least tell there are clear attempt of trying to fit them in the funnels more. The ellipses are fitting snugly against each other in these one too.

Overall, I think you're ready to move onto the 250 boxes challenge. It is recommend to incorporate these exercises into your warm-ups. Personally, I would pick out a random one and do it for 10-15 minutes as a warm-up. You are free to do how many or how long you want since this is more of a personal growth. For now, I would say the Ghosted Planes and Ellipses in Ghosted Planes would benefit you most on making you getting used to drawing from the shoulder more and improve your lines and ellipses confidence in the process. Have a great time doing your 250 boxes challenge now and congrats on completing the first lesson yippee!

For your Funnels, three of them on the left side are quite poor spacing. Remember to keep your ellipses tight and snugly against one another. Too many of the ellipses were being loose as well, causing the illusion of a funnels broken. There's not many clear attempts of you trying to fit the ellipses in the funnels. So remember to have your ellipses touch and not go over the sides of the funnels too much. I would suggest you taking as much time as you need for the ghosting method before committing your ellipses onto the paper.

I would say the problem in your Rotated boxes being messy is mainly due to the lines work. Since there are still a noticeable amount of stray lines, causing your overall work seems to be crowded and messy. The lines warm-ups and the upcoming 250 boxes challenge will gradually improving your lines to reach to level 3. I'm sure when your lines are consistent, start and end at the right designated points that you have planned out, not only the Rotated Boxes exercise but also other exercises that involves in lines (like Organic Perspective, Rough Perspective, and many more to come...) will be improved as well.

Hey hey, it's all good. Next time remember to double check before you submit.

For your Ghosted Lines, lines are not wobbly so that's good. The ink distribution seems uneven and getting lighter when reaching the end though. I assume you're focusing too much on the speed in an attempt of making it looks straight rather than focusing more drawing from your shoulder. There are cases of overshooting too but this can be improved over practicing so don't worry if you didn't manage to nail it the first time. A small tip (from my personal experience): you can try to focus more on the endpoint instead of tracing your eye along the lines. So first, do your usual ghosting method (as many times as you needed until you feel confident enough), then focus on the endpoint and just shoot your lines. Of course, aware of drawing from your shoulder instead of focusing too much on the speed.

A few of your lines in Ghosted planes are a bit wobbly when reaching to the endpoint. I assume it's to correct the mistake from making the lines straying away the first intended point. Always remember to achieve Confidence over Accuracy first. Asides from that, I can tell there's improvement cause there are some very nice, confident lines here and there. Once you implement this exercise into your warm-ups, you can save more space and fit more planes on your paper by having them tight knit together like this.

Hey, I think you missed the step of adding your central minor axis line to your Funnels. I can't critique fairly when you submitted only one funnel either :(. Your work should be somewhat looked like this so remember to take as much time as you need to go through the instruction carefully.

A better attempt on your Plotted perspective. Just remember that your verticals are supposed to be perpendicular to the horizon (especially those lines of yours at the back of the box).

Good job on your re-attempt of Rotated Boxes. Although your lines are still fairly messy, I can tell the gaps between the boxes are tighter and more consistent than your previous attempt and the boxes are rotated quite nicely as well.

Thank you ToT)! I will definitely take notes of these for my future warm-up boxes.

Hello! I'm Meap and I hope my feedback will be helpful to you :3.

Lines:

1. Superimposed Lines

• Lines are consistent and not wobbly. I notice some of your longer lines have cases of fraying on both ends so it's best taking your time to place your pen correctly at the starting point. Your longer lines do have tendencies of arcing but not that noticeable. If you're confident that you had drawn from the shoulder but the problem still persists, you can try this Tip from the lesson by consciously arcing your line slightly in the opposite direction.

2. Ghosted Lines

• I think you forgot to include the ghosted lines exercise. You left them lines ghosted fr :(.

3. Ghosted Planes

• Remember to read the instructions of the exercise carefully cause your planes are not finished :(. I will refrain from critiquing them until you have finished the exercise.

Ellipses:

1. Tables of Ellipses

• I see you struggle a bit with some of your smaller ellipses as they're a bit wobbly and not quite fit against the borders. Otherwise, some of your bigger ellipses are smoother and I can tell you're making attempts of trying to fit them against the borders. This can be improved through practicing later as warm-ups as long as you remember to employ the ghosting method correctly and engage your whole arm from the shoulder.

2. Ellipses in Planes

• Remember to have your ellipses touch all 4 edges of the plane. Otherwise, I think the ellipses are quite smoothly executed.

3. Funnels

• You forgot to include this exercise as well, which make the FUNnels very SADnels :(. (Sorry, I'm on my silly juice again).

Boxes

1. Plotted Perspective

• The lesson requires us to do everything in this exercise with a ruler (including the hatching). It seems to me that you've done this exercise free-hand. The placement of your vanishing points should be placed on either end, close to the edge of the frame and not far away from the frame. You can change the position of your horizon line (either slightly up, in the middle or slightly under) but not the vanishing points. The horizontal edges are not being plotted back to the vanishing points correctly either. I'm sorry to inform you this (even though you had gone through this exercise twice). I would recommend you redo this exercise and read through the instructions carefully again. It's best to always give yourself as much time as you require to go through the instructions thoroughly, and strive to follow them as closely as possible, as the course is designed in a specific manner.

2. Rough Perspective

• The results would have turned out better and less messy if you had drawn 4-5 big boxes (or 6 at most) as recommended from the lesson (And if possible, another color for the line extensions that can visibly separate from the rest of your work would help too.) That way, it will be easier for us to analyze how far off from the vanishing point our line extensions actually hit the horizon. Otherwise, your front and back faces of the boxes do compose of horizontals that are parallel to the horizon line, and verticals that are perpendicular to it so I believe you have a fair grasp on the purpose of this exercise. Some of the lines are getting gradually smoother and more consistent at this exercise so that's good. However, I do see some attempts of trying to connect the stray lines with the designated marks. Remember to draw from the shoulder and apply the ghosting method as much as you need before committing one, confident line.

3. Rotated Boxes (or should i say bawkses lol)

• I would recommend you redo this exercise as well. It think it was going pretty good for the nine boxes that runs along the vertical and the horizontal axis. But everything else were falling around. The gaps between each box should be narrow and consistent. Adding some line weights and hatching in the end will help you distinguish each box and clear up the confusion over the many lines at play as well.

4. Organic perspective

• I do notice some of your lines are getting better. There's still a few lines getting wobbly at the end though. Make sure to take your time to use ghosting method throughly and engage your whole arm from the shoulder. There's only a few cases of divergence so i think you did a pretty good job on this exercise. Remember to give yourself more time to think through the planning phase of your lines (during which you place your various points), and definitely encourage you to do so more when moving onto the 250 box challenge.

If you have any questions or don't understand any instructions in the lesson, feel free to ask me by replying to the comment or through discord. After you had finished the revisions, you can submit your work to me under the comment as well. You got this ?(ò_ó?)?!

Hello. I'm Meap :3 and I will give you the critique today. Overall, I think you did great.

Lines:

Overall, your lines are consistent, not wobbly, very clear signs of confidence! There's only like a few of your longer lines that show signs of arcing slightly. You can try the Tip from the lesson by consciously arc your line slightly in the opposite direction. But I think this can be improved with you practice more of these as your warm-ups + doing the 250 boxes challenge.

Ellipses:

Overall, nice job! Your ellipses are mostly evenly shaped, consistent and smoothly executed. I can tell you did thrive trying to fit the ellipses against the borders, the funnels, and the planes.

Boxes

1. Plotted Perspective

• Remember to keep your verticals perpendicular to the horizon (especially those lines of yours at the back of the box). Give yourself more time when lining up your ruler.

2. Rough Perspective

• Based on the lines that you shown in this exercise, I assume a few lines are being drawn over again to improve your previous stray lines. This may happen due to not applying the ghosting method as thoroughly as you could be. It's better to take as much time as you need before committing one, confident line. But everything else looks good.

3. Rotated Boxes

• You did a great job on this one! Clearly shown you follow the core steps of the exercise. Very consistent and confident lines. The gaps between your boxes are tight and consistent. Not to mention your boxes are rotated very nicely.

4. Organic perspective

• Good job on this exercise too. Little to no divergence cases. But I assume a few lines of the boxes are being drawn over again to improve your previous stray lines in this one too? If so, then the critique will remain the same with the Rough Perspective exercise.

Overall, I can tell you have a pretty decent grasp on perspective. Your lines are gradually more confident and consistent over each exercise as well. You can definitely start incorporating these exercises as your warms-up and moving onto the 250 boxes challenge now!

P/s: We literally have the same computer mouse lol. Bonded over Logitech M720 mouse fr.

Hello! I'm Meap and I will critique you today :3. Nice work overall!

Lines:

Superimposed Lines

• Lines are quite consistent and not wobbly. However I see quite few cases that have fraying on both ends. Remember to take your time to position your pen at the starting point of your lines.

Ghosted Lines

• No wobbly lines, very nice. Not very noticeable of arcing or bowing either so good job!

Ghosted Planes

• Lines are quite consistent and not wobbly.

Overall, well done.

Ellipses:

Tables of Ellipses

• I can tell you did a great attempt trying to fit the ellipses against the borders. And the ellipses are mostly evenly shaped and smoothly executed too.

Ellipses in Planes

• Remember to have your ellipses touching all 4 edges more. Most are evenly shaped and consistent.

Funnels

• I can tell you try to have your ellipses fitting against the sides of the funnels and against other ellipses. And not many deformed or uneven ellipses either.

Overall, nice job.

Boxes

Plotted Perspective

• For this exercise, it was instructed to use a ruler. My only nitpick for this is your hatching seems to be rushed with uneven lines, almost seems to me you did the hatching freehand. Remember to take as much time as you need to do the exercise and read the instruction carefully.

Rough Perspective

• Your front and back faces of the boxes do compose of horizontals that are parallel to the horizon line, and verticals that are perpendicular to it so nice job. Remember to take your time doing the ghosting method for the lines.

Rotated Boxes

• You missed the remaining 4 boxes in the corner :(. I will critique this only after you have finished it. Remember to read the instructions and give a quick revision after you have finished the exercise.

Organic perspective

• I can see some struggles of yours during this since the boxes were fairly repetitive and not freely rotated yet, but that's okay haha. Since the purpose of this exercise was, and I quote "to throw you into the deep end of the pool without having yet taught you to swim". You can understand the purpose of this exercise was that you're forced to start thinking about how these forms can be rotated freely in 3D space. I can tell you did make an attempt to try :3. I'm here to only critique on your lines, which are fairly consistent and not noticeably wobbly, so I assume you did take your time to do the ghosting method. But the hatching were almost like scribbles :(. The lesson did not specifically asking you to do the hatching for this lesson either but if you decide to do it, remember to take your time to also apply the ghosting method and draw from your shoulder for the hatching as well. I don't see many cases of diverging either so it's all good. But you should avoid particularly dramatic foreshortening and keep the convergences of your box pretty gradual. Don't worry, the 250 box challenge will be helping you with this so I don't see it's necessary to ask you do another page of this exercise.