SingularPhysic

Welcome, and congrats on having completed Lesson 1. I’ll be taking a look at it and moving you right along to the box challenge!

Starting off, your superimposed lines look great. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of an okay trajectory. They do tend to fray a little quickly, I notice, so I wonder if you’re not perhaps drawing these a little too fast (or, worse, with your elbow). Take some time to find out. The ghosted lines/planes look good. I appreciate that you’ve plotted start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes (most students forget), but try to be a little less conscious of them, if you can. Right now, I think you’re slowing down as you approach them, in an effort to not stop short, or overshoot, but this is causing your line to change its trajectory as it ends.

Your table of ellipses exercise looks great. Your ellipses are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through, and you’ve got a nice variety to them, also (referring to their degrees/angles). The ellipses in planes are nicely done, too. Despite their more complicated frames, they do a good job of maintaining their prior smoothness/roundness, and I even notice some effort towards making sure that they’re in correct perspective (!) from time to time. That’s beyond the scope of this lesson, but keep it up! The funnels are well done, too. There’s the occasional spacing issue, for which I’d recommend more ghosting, but the big things – that they’re snug, and properly cut in half – are there, so you’re good.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean. The rough perspective exercise is well done, also. Its convergences start off strong, and show some nice improvement throughout the set. Linework is confident, but sometimes a little scratchy, so I’ll caution you against the automatic reinforcing habit. Recall that, however it may turn out, each line is to be drawn once, and only once. Resist the urge to add more ink to a mistake, if for no other reason than it doesn’t fix t, anyway; it just makes it stand out that much more. Good job with the rotated boxes exercise. It’s big, its boxes are snug, and they rotate quite nicely. I especially appreciate how different each quadrant is – it tells me that, rather than settling for what you know, you chose to experiment with each one; great attitude! Finally, the organic perspective exercise looks good. Your boxes here are a little same-y (they don’t all need to be cubes, if that wasn’t clear), but they flow well, as a result of their size and foreshortening, so no harm done, anyway.

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. A few of your ellipses in funnels are having some slight issues with tilting off the minor axis. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/notaligned This is something you should always start considering when drawing your ellipses. Your ellipses are off to a great start but there's still room for improvement so keep practicing them during your warmups.

The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. It's great that you are keeping up with the confident linework on these. You are also doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice. One thing that can help you a bit when doing a one point perspective exercise like this is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be perpendicular(straight up and down in this case) to the horizon line. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.

Your rotated box exercise turned out decently. One thing that would have helped you here would have been to just draw this a bit bigger overall. Drawing bigger really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases(mainly just on the left side you are getting at least a slight rotation on the other sides) but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/21/notrotating While the rotations here aren't perfect this was a good effort overall. The more you draw and develop your spatial thinking ability the easier these rotations are to handle. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. One thing I noticed is that you have reverted back to drawing from your wrist for some of these shorter lines and it's causing a bit of line wobble. Just something to keep an eye on. You should be drawing from your shoulder for basically every line you draw, even shorter ones. The wrist should be reserved for detail work only. Your box constructions are fairly solid for the most part and I can see you are developing a sense for how box lines converge to vps. There are still some wonky convergences here and there so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.

Overall this was a really solid submission that showed a good deal of growth. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along nicely. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work!