7:09 PM, Tuesday January 28th 2025
Hi,
I will be doing a review of your Lesson 1 Homework. This is the first time I am reviewing a fellow DrawABox-er’s Homework so bear with me, I will try to be as constructive as possible. Let me just start by saying congratulations on a job well done! You clearly have an understanding of the motives behind these exercises and your work reflects it.
1. Superimposed Lines: The key is to make confident smooth marks as you draw from your shoulder/arm and you clearly did that well, as there are almost no wobbles present to indicate any hesitation. As you attempted this exercise you made sure to avoid any fraying at the starting point of your strokes, that’s essential because it shows you made sure to line up your pen correctly when initiating your strokes. Fraying on the further is completely normal and in your case, for a lot of your strokes, even that is negligible. There is slight arcing present in some of the strokes and if you ever catch yourself doing so just make the conscious effort to counter act the natural curves caused by your pivots.
2. Ghosted Lines: You’ve done a great job, I can see that there is no hesitation present in any of your strokes. As far as missing the intended target of your stroke is concerned, it is absolutely fine! One thing DrawABox is really good at is providing a system that gives you plenty of mileage so this is something that will improve even further as you move through this course.
3. Ghosted Planes: You’ve done well, you’ve really pushed yourself and really filled the page, which is great! The quality and accuracy of your lines is also progressively improving and there is no visible arcing and you almost always went through your intended target. A friendly piece of advice, always mark the starting and ending points of your strokes before bisecting your planes, otherwise those lines may give the impression of being slightly rushed.
4. Tables of Ellipses: You’ve set up your page correctly and your Ellipses are nice and snug plus you’ve also drawn through your ellipses, so good job on that too! Again just a reminder, if you ever find yourself fretting over your ellipses not being perfect, they certainly will get a whole lot better if you keep up with the course as intended.
5. Ellipses in Planes: Looks pretty good, you’ve managed to control the number of times you draw through your ellipses and for the most part your ellipses stay within the planes while also making contact with its edges.
6. Funnels: You’ve consistently been drawing through your ellipses, which is great! For most of your ellipses the center line does function as a minor arc, which is good and you kept them well within bounds so that’s good too!
7. Plotted Perspective: You’re doing great, you’ve followed the instructions to the letter and used a ruler to plot all your boxes in two point perspective as per the guidelines. Your verticals are perfectly perpendicular and your all your perspective lines are properly approaching the vanishing points. All the hatching is done properly and none of those lines are rushed either.
8. Rough Perspective: Once again a job well done! The horizontals and verticals of your boxes are perfectly laid out with respect to the horizon line and the Vanishing points are placed properly. All the lines that are meant to reach the Vanishing Points show the intent to hit the Vanishing point every time. And you’ve shown no hesitation or fear and really amped it up by overlapping your boxes so that’s pretty awesome too!
9. Rotated Boxes: You’ve set your page up exactly as you were supposed to and understood the methodology of rotating your boxes as indicated by the way you laid them out. The spaces between your boxes remain even and the edges are pretty consistent. You may have forgotten the boxes in the corner and your hatching does slightly effect the readability but overall a very good job on this too.
10. Organic Perspective: You've perfectly set up your page and boxes do seem like they've been following a path as expected. All the boxes do look 3d as well, and have been rotated in many different ways. The only thing that may require your consideration is making sure that you set up a point of convergence (vanishing point) for all the sets of parallel edges using the Y method, whether you explicitly draw/mark that point or not is entirely up to you but whenever approaching boxes in three point perspective remember the parallel edges must never be perfectly parallel otherwise the box may look like it's either in one or two point perspective or it may even come off as an isometric projection if all the sets have almost perfectly parallel edges. Overall, this exercise is also done well.
As you move through these lessons always make sure to follow the 50% rule, Keep up with your warm ups and if needed, go over the lessons again. Lastly, don't forget to review the work of your peers once you've completed a lesson.
Good luck!
Next Steps:
You're now ready to move on to the 250 Box Challenge, Goodluck!
