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Okay so first of all, consider preferring ink over your drawing tablet, as this FAQ indicates. If you first know how to draw with a pen, there's no reason you can't with a tablet outside of the lesson. But that's your choice.

You could also reduce the empty space on the pages, from that to that.

Also, you should be more confident on your lines (which I think is a problem easily avoidable by switching to ink). It's most visible on your organic perspective pages, where your lines are wobbly and your cubes look off. Plus, some cubes look like their vanishing point go the wrong way of the first "Y" of the cube. The issue also appears on your ellipses (remember to make two circles without lifting your pen).

Perhaps you could rework your organic perspective and your ghosted planes + ellipses in planes exercises. Most importantly, remember to ghost and always prefer confidence over accuracy.

Hi Elliot,

As promised, here is your critique. Please keep in mind that I am a student myself and therefore lag the experience of uncomfortable and the teaching assistants (so if you can afford it, I would advise you to subscribe on patreon and get your work reviewed by them).

Having said that, let's get started:

First, superimposed lines. You've done a good job avoiding any fraying at your starting points, only sometimes I see that you get a bit lax, probably because you start to rush the exercise. Your lines are looking pretty smooth and confident. There are some wobbles and archs here and there but that's to be expected.

Moving onto ghosted lines, I think you did a great job with these. They look very smooth and confident.

Your ghosted planes are looking good too. You stick with the marks you put on the page and don't try to correct them. With some planes I get the feeling that you start to rush again, but I might be wrong. I also think your ellipses in the planes are nicely done, except for the point that you should only draw through them twice (if I remember correctly, check exercise description). You've done a very good job to keep them in the bounds without sacrificing confidence.

Moving onto your ellipse tables. I like that you're keeping your ellipses tightly packed within the bounds that you've set. I'm also happy to see that you're drawing through the ellipses, though again: I think you should only draw through them twice. There is some room for improvement in getting them tidy, but that is totally normal.

With the funnels you do a pretty good job of aligning to the minor axes. (again: draw through your ellipses twice).

The plotted perspective exercise looks great. I don't see any problems here.

I am missing the 2 pages for the rough perspective (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/roughperspective).

As for the rotated boxes. First of all congratulations on the completion of this exercise. I think you did a great job. The gaps between your boxes are relatively consistent and your rotations are nice and tidy. It seems that you can conceptualize these boxes in 3d space very well. Much better than I could, actually ;).

Onto organic perspective. Overall your boxes do a good job of shrinking and growing as they move through space. I think there could be more overlapping and you should use line weight to clarify it. Again, I see some hastiness I think. Don't forget to ghost your lines and then confidently put your line on the page. I guess there is a fine line between confidence and rushing things. There is also room for improvement when aligning the horizontal lines to their shared vanishing point, but that is to be expected and you can work on this in the 250 box challenge.

Overall, nicely done. I think you are ready to move one once you've completed the rough perspective exercise.

A more general remark: It would make things easier if you could rotate your pages on imgur so that it is easier for the person reviewing your work and some of the pictures seem to have a low resolution. That makes it hard to see the details.

Good work! keep in mind that this is my first critique, so I might have missed some things.

Lines

Lines seem all good. For Superimposed Lines, there's only fraying on one end, which is good, and they mostly accurate. Good job, especially on the arced lines! I found these really hard to do. Mine were a total mess.

Ellipses

Ellipses need some work.

For Ellipses in Planes, your ellipses are well done. They lie for the most part within their respective planes, they lie within the circle and are only drawn over 2-3 times.

For Tables of Ellipses, some of the medium-to-large ellipses are either not completely filling the space or having some overlap with neighboring ellipses. The circular ellipses seem better.

For Funnels, I'm not really sure what happened. A few of the funnels are well done, such as the ones in the top-right corner. Most of them, however, have really bad overlap. The one in the bottom-left corner is the worst offender. You should definitely do another page of funnels. On the bright side, good job on the minor axes! They should cut the ellipses into 2 symmetrical halves, and you've done so.

A trick that really helped me when drawing the ellipses was thinking about their contact points with the bounding/box and other ellipses when ghosting. Here's a quick guide I made to demonstrate what I mean: https://imgur.com/gallery/axi1Vsj (excuse the horrible ellipses, I'm still working on mine as well!)

Boxes

Everything seems mostly alright here. I'm far from an expert at boxes, but here's what I noticed.

For Rough Perspective, your lines have a good bit of wobble to them. Remember, the goal is not accuracy but confidence in your lines. Ghost your lines. Before doing a page of boxes, doing a few Ghosted Planes is a great warm-up. The only other thing is that you've forgotten to finish is constructing the back face of the bottom-most box on the first page... or is it just infinitely long?

For Rotated Boxes, good job! This one was really tricky for me, so please take everything I say with a grain of salt. For your outermost boxes on the axes, you should rotate them more than you have. You're close to not actually rotating your boxes. As you go out from the origin, the size of the boxes on the page decreases much faster than one would think it would. Compare your outermost boxes to those in Uncomfortable's example homework.

Great work overall! Just review your ellipses, and then you'll be set for 250 boxes.

Hi Igor:

There are some things I want to mark about the exercises (sorry if my critic it's not lengthy or incredibly elaborated):

• About lines (this one is important) , or better, confidence in the execution of these. I see there are some wobbly lines. I would keep an eye on this. Pay attention on the execution, remember to use your shoulder.

• About the elipses, it's the same case, they don't look that confindently executed.

• About boxes:

  • Rotated boxes has some issues in the perspective, for example in this box (https://imgur.com/a/Gg5rNib), the lines aren't exactly pararell. Don't forget about those!

  • Organic perspective: same than earlier, keep an eye on those lines, there are some that should be pararell.

Hope this helped you. Keep it up!

Everything is looking good, crisp lines and you avoid re-drawing lines that miss, so that's very good! The one critique i have is that some of your later boxes diverge, 180 and 215 specifically, it doesn't seem to be a big problem, it's just something to be aware of!