Mohobolobo

You have definitely improved your mark making, the lines are really confident in your rotated boxex exercise. I still see some wobbly-ness in the smaller boxes in the organic persepctive exercise, but everyone struggles with that. so it's okay

In your Looking forward to your 250 box submission :)

Even with your explanation, I still don't think I understand textures. I'll make sure to revisit the exercises. For example, with my cloth texture, I could not find a way to illustrate its texture without drawing it's form.

Thank you for the helpful critique, I'll put your advice to practice.

Good job on completing lesson 1!

Now, for the critique:

Your lines are confident, but there is an arch in your lines that remains till the organic box exercise, make sure to arch your lines the other way if your lines continue to curve one way. Overall, solid work

Your ellipsses are also good, really confident. In the table of ellipses exercise you draw a variety all of which are closely pacekd to one another. I noticed however that you draw through your ellipses more than three times, which makes them a little messy. Ideally you should draw through only two times, mostly three. Good work on the funnel exercise.

In the rough perspective exercise you've drawn over lines multiple times, and scratched lines out. This a huge no. You must be confident in your markmaking, think before putting pen to paper, and if it doesn't come out how you wanted, just move on. These are exercsies, not artpieces. Other than that, good work!

You're on the right trach for the rotated box exercise, but you have not finished it (bottom right is missing).

Good job in the organic perspective exercise. I feel you could have done a better job on letting your boxes overlap and exaggerating the scale of the boxes that are up close. These things really sell that there is a sense of depth in the drawing. But, these are things that you can improve upon when you do the 250 Box Challenge.

Once you finish the rotated boxes exercise, you'll have completed lesson 1 and will be able to start the 250 box challenge!

Good job on completing lesson 1!

Now, for the critique:

There's wobbling and arch in your lines that remains till the organic perspective exercise. Make sure to arch your lines the other way if your lines continue to curve one way. Also, this is not a DAB exercise, but I want you to take a piece of paper and just start drawing random lines - but, make sure to always use your shoulder, to feel the flow, and to draw confidently. Part of learning how to draw with your shoulder is finding the right way to orient your arm to create smooth, confident lines, and this exericise imo helps a lot with that. The accuracy of your lines will increase with more practice.

On Tables of Ellipses, you did a great job on making confident ellipses and keeping them closely packed together. Some are little wonky but that'll improve over time. I'd suggest you practice different varieties of ellipses, too. Good job in the funnels increase.

In the Boxes exercises I'd like to point out firstly, is that your lines are sometimes wobbling. You made a solid attempt at the rotated exercise, but your boxes should be more closesly packed together, and they are not rotating (make sure the lines converge more as they rotate and move away from the middle box). Also, it seems like you are adding more rotated boxes than what the instructions say, and some of your boxes are stacked on top of one another(top left and right?). I'd like you to re-do this exercise.

In the organic perspective exercise, you made sure the boxes get larger as they come closer to the viewer, and that they overlap with one another. These small things really sell that there is a sense of depth in the drawing. Good job.

Overall, solid work, make sure to re-visit the rotated box exercise, and good luck with the 250 box challenge!

Congratulations on finishing the 250-Box-Challenge and thanks for submitting, I'll be reviewing your homework. I hope my feedback helps you.

The praises:

You drew through your forms, and checked your mistakes. You linework was confident and accurate. Your lines are converging to a single vaninshing point. You drew boxes of various types (shallow +dramatic foreshortening). You drew your hatching lines confidently and on the face of the box that faces the figure

Great job!

Where you went slightly wrong

Of course you had improved throughout the challenge but some of your lines converge at a faster rate than the others resulting in converging pairs. This is mostly happening with your back corner lines.

The way I like to think about it, is not as simple parralal lines of a box, but as lines in 3d space that will all converge to a single point in the 'depth' of the page. It takes quite a lot of effort to force your brain to see the page, and the lines, as being within 3d spacen and not a 2d surface. But, making an active effrort to think in 3D will definetly help you guess more accurately at what angle your should draw your lines.

I also noticed that you redraw lines and scratch out entire boxes out as well - this is huge no. Fixing a line or a box just makes the drawing more messy, instead you should be more decisive and think about each line you put down - and if its incorrect, just move on. These are excerises, not artpieces.

Overall, I think you're ready for Lesson 2. Good luck!

Good job on completing Lesson 1! I'll review your work and see if you need to improve on anything.

I see on your Superimposed Lines that there's some fraying on both ends of your lines. Make sure you take the time to reposition your pen after every line you draw. There's also wobbling and arch in your lines that remains in your lines till the organic perspective, but the confidence and accuracy in your lines will improve with more practice. Make sure to arch your lines the other way if your lines continue to curve one way. Also, this is not a DAB exercise, but I want you to take a piece of paper and just start drawing random lines - but, make sure to always use your shoulder, to feel the flow, and to draw confidently.

On Tables of Ellipses, your ellipses are (mostly) confident. However, they are not tightly packed together at times, some are wobbly (because you may be using your wrist) and some of the ellipses are of the same degree(width). Make sure that in each box the ellipses are of the same degree, and are tighly packed. Your did a better job with the tightness and increasing degree of the elippses in the funnel exercise.

You did a good job on Rough Perspective by keeping the horizontal lines parallel and vertical lines perpendicular to the horizon. You made a solid attempt at the rotated boxes exercise, but your boxes should be more closesly packed together, and they are not rotating (make sure the lines converge more as they rotate and are futher away from the middle box).

In the organic perspective exercise, you made sure the boxes get larger as they come closer to the viewer. I feel you could have done a better job on letting your boxes overlap and exaggerating the scale of the boxes that are up close. These things really sell that there is a sense of depth in the drawing. Some of your boxes are not looking like boxes, some are too long in one dimension - I want you to draw the same-sized box, and to visualize the box before you put pen to paper.

Overall, I'd heavily reccomend that before you do the 250 box challenge, you should:

1) redo the Rotated box exercise and the Organic Box exercise.

2) make sure that you do not scratch out any lines you've put to paper

3) and to practice drawing from your shoulder, via the mothod I outlined or via the DAB exercises

Good work and good luck for the 250 box challenge!

Congratulations on finishing the 250-Box-Challenge and thanks for submitting, I'll be reviewing your homework. I hope my feedback helps you.

The praises:

You drew through your forms, and checked your mistakes. You linework was confident and accurate. Your lines are converging to a single vaninshing point. You drew boxes of various types (shallow +dramatic foreshortening). You drew your hatching lines.

Great job!

Where you went slightly wrong:

Of course, you improved gradually throughout the challenge. However, some errors remain till the 200-250 boxes.

1) some of your hatching lines are curving and are not confident like your other lines.

2) some of your lines converge at a faster rate than the others resulting in converging in pairs. This is mostly happening with your back corner lines.

The way I like to think about it, is not as simple parralal lines of a box, but as lines in 3d space that will converge to a single point. It takes quite a lot of brain power to force your brain to see the page, and the lines, as being within 3d space. But it will definetly help you guess more accurately at what angle your should draw your lines.

3) I don't see any lineweight being added to the boxes. Either I'm blind and your lineweight is a little too sublte, or you forgot to add lineweight. Adding lineweight to the contours of the box tells us which forms are in front and which ones behind, therefore making it way easier to see the contruction of the box.

Moving forward, and Lesson 2

I'd like you to continou to draw boxes as warm-ups for lesson 2 exercises. Make sure to switch on your 3d brain on and really see those lines moving back into 3d space. Make sure to use the ghosting method and to draw confident hatching lines. And lastly, add lineweight to the contours of your box.

Good job and good luck in lesson 2!

you'll find the correct angle soon enough, tt took me a while as well. What I did was just draw a lot of rough lines on a separate piece of paper; doing this I always got into the 'flow' of drawing straight,confdent lines. I

continue with the challenge, drawing lines will become second nature to you :)

Thank you so much for your detailed critque! Really helpful.

Good job on completing lesson 1.

Now, onto the critque:

Lines: Your lines are wobbly in the ghosted lines exercise, but this seems to improve as you go onto the ghosted planes. Just make sure to concentrate on using your shoulder pivot, some of your lines are still shkay in the boxes section. I'd like you to focus on keeping your lines as straight as possible without any curvature. Whatever direction your lines curve at, just make sure to draw your lines arched slightly in the opposite direction. Good work tho.

Ellipses: Some of your ellipses are wobbly, but that's ok, you will get better with more practice. Make sure to keep your ellipses and closely packed together as possible, and make sure to draw a variety of ellispes and different orientations. Solid work in the funnels exercise

Boxes: In the rough persepctive exercise, I see that your lines start getting more wobbly than the previous exercises. Also, make sure that the vertical and horizital axis lines are actually vertical and horizontal, not at an angle. But, your convergenses are solid, so good job. In the rotated boxes exercise, your drawing is too small - next time I'd like you to draw it larger that fills up thje page more (since the outermost boxes are barely visible at the moment, and keeping the drawing small hinders your linework as well). Please make sure to re-do this exercise. You did a good job in the organic perspective exercise, I like how your boxes get bigger/smaller, and that they are overlapping.

Good work, and good luck for 250 box challenge