You definately shouldn't do lesson 1 in a day, that'd be grinding. The point of this is to do the exercises with intent without rushing. If you're new, to build the habit of giving this course its own time and space in your day in way more important that how fast you are. Take your time, do your best, and when the exercise is finished move on to the next. Even if you feel you failed, just keep going.
As below/above. I think it is better to use references that provide good construction practice rather than ones you want to draw from an aesthetic POV. Almost head on provides to much overlapping info.
I think you have to start from the start if you decide to go Patreon. The feedback you get is cumulative and often refers to previous issues. Self assessment or community assessment isn't as rigorous IMO. So Patreon is very much worth doing.
If you don't go that route then I would spend a few days refreshing your memory by doing some examples of previous exercises before restarting lesson 3.
Feel free to look at my official critiques if you want an idea of what you get for your money.
I seems you have nailed the concept of drawing boxes in perspective, the convergences on the later boxes is very good. as for 248 the problem I think is the point in the top right of it and that i think it should be more foreshortened to connect with the other ones. other than that your good. can I ask for a critique of my own for the same challenge?
Next Steps:
Move onto lesson 2
Hello there!
Lets take a look at your submission!
lines
Your superimposed lines look good, besides some minor fraying on both ends on some of these lines, but you seem to already have fixed that on your second page. Luckily, most of your lines look confident, which is most important. I do think you could've filled the page with the ghosted lines a little more, though, but beside that, good job!
elipses
For some of these elipses I think you could've taken a little more time trying to make the elipses fit within their bounds, this is for example decently noticeable in your first page of the tables of elipses. I think this could be prevented by taking a little more time ghosting. However, the most important thing is that they're confident, which they are.
Although not mandatory, the degree change in your funnels seem very subtle in some cases. If you feel making the funnels exercise a little more challenging, you could try to implement a degree change when including this exercise in you warmups. I also notice some more funnels bleeding through the page, just remember that we are only supposed to complete the assigned amount of pages for each exercise. But besides that, these look really decent, so good job!
boxes
You did the plotted perspective as instructed - not much to add here.
On the rough perspective, some lines wobble/arc a bit, so keep in mind to always prioritize confidence over accuracy, but luckily these are few and far between. Also remember that, in this exerecise, horizontal lines should be parallel with the horizon and vertical lines should be perpendicular to it. You already show a good understanding of this, but in some cases it tends to be a little off.
Although I do wish you'd spend a little more time hatching, the rotated boxes look incredible. Good job!
The organic perspective looks incredible too, well done!
Ill mark this lesson as complete, you show a verey decent understanding of this lesson and I think you are ready to move on to the 250 box challenge. Don't forget to include these exercises in your warmups. Good luck!
Next Steps:
250 box challenge.
Lines:
some fraying at the beginning of superimposed lines, especially with the curved ones
there's a lot of wobble in your ghosted lines, remember to focus on drawing confidently not accurately
Ellipses:
good job drawing through them all multiple times
some of the ellipses in your funnels exercise are leaning, try to keep the major axis parallel to the guide line drawn
Boxes:
lines get wobbly again in the rough perspective exercises
you could exaggerate the scale change more in the organic perspective exercises
Overall great job!
Next Steps:
You can move on to the 250 box challenge
Hello and congratulation! You finished your second step (the first is lesson 0 anyway????) at Drawabox!
Now, here my critiques:
Lines
Many of your lines still look wobbly and bit arching. Remember to use your shoulder pivot instead wrist pivot. Using elbow pivot is okay, but shoulder pivot is preferred. Also, make sure you draw on flat place. The purpose of this exercise is to make smooth, consistent and confident lines. The accuracy is second goal. Feel free to rotate your paper, find comfortable position for drawing the lines. Take your time for ghosting your lines. Then, execute the mark with confidence. No hesitation, no second-guessing, no attempting to avoid a mistake. If you make the mark confidently but mess up on accuracy, then you didn't mess up. It's one of the earlier people up the production line that messed up.
Ellipses
Well, you need many improvement in this part. Most of your ellipses are uneven, not smooth and not showing confidence. Few ellipses in Ellipse in Plane are floating and I think you can use the space in Table of Ellipses more efficiently. Meanwhile, the symmetrical of ellipses in Funnel is pretty good, though you can improve this further. My advice in this section, same as make lines, do more ghosting and execute fast!
No surprise because I also thinking that this section is the hardest part of the lesson 1
Boxes
Your doing good on using perspective and VP. BUT, again, you lack of confident on make lines. Though that, it's okay because you'll draw a lot of boxes at 250 Box Challenge
Your Plotted Perspective is good and don't worry about your Rotated Boxes because it's still too hard. In other hand, I think you'll get more benefit if you more varying your boxes on Organic Perspective, like small (or extra small) for further boxes and large (or Extra Larger) for closer boxes. But we can left this section.
**Improve your lines and I think you're ready for next step after that
Good luck!
Next Steps:
1.Do again 2 pages of planes and draw ellipse on them (Ellipse on Plane). Give more attention on your lines and make sure they're confident and smooth lines.
2.Try another (1 page) Rough Perspective and let see your improvement
just attach the link if you're done????
Lines
Super Imposed Lines: Good, lines are smooth and confident. But, some are fraying at both ends, be careful where you place your pen at the begining of the stroke.
Ghosted Lines: Good. I can see you understand the exercise. A couple of wobbles but this will improve with practice.
Ghosted Planes: Good job.
Ellipses
Tables of Ellipses: Very good! You've drawn through each ellipse 2-3 times and they look pretty confident. Again, accuracy will improve with practice.
Ellipses in Planes: Very good, a couple have been drawn through too many times but nice work overall.
Ellipses in Funnels: Great! Your axis are splitting the ellipses evenly in half, well done.
Boxes
Plotted Perspective: Good work.
Rough Perspective: A couple of nitpicks here. There is a fram where you've extended your error checking lines from the front points of your boxes directly to the vanishing point, instead of following the edge of the box you drew. This is only one frame so I'm assuming you realized your mistake and drew the rest as per the instructions. You have a few repeating lines as well, no matter how off a line is, a student should never repeat it, they should keep the line as it if were correct and move on. There is the occasional missing back edge on your boxes in this exercise too, try to remember to draw through them all.
Rotated Boxes: Really good effort here! Your boxes are rotating nicely, and you've drawn though them all. You have forgotten the las four "corner boxes though" go check out the sample homework for this exercise too see what I mean. https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/5f4fef59.jpg
Organic Perspective: Good use of scale to create depth, well done. Remember to draw the whole box, even where they overlap though. Same comment about repeating your lines as above. Remember to ghost your lines to help you draw them accurately.
Next Steps:
Congratulations on completing lesson one!
Move onto the 250 box challenge.
Remember to use the lesson one exercises for your warmups.
Greetings fellow Brawler!
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Marshall Vandruff is a ubiquitous name in art instruction - not just through his work on the Draftsmen podcast and his other collaborations with Proko, but in his own right. He's been teaching anatomy, gesture, and perspective for decades, and a number of my own friends have taken his classes at the Laguna College of Art and Design (back around 2010), and had only good things to say about him. Not just as an instructor, but as a wonderful person as well.
Many of you will be familiar with his extremely cheap 1994 Perspective Drawing lectures, but here he kicks it up to a whole new level.
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