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Awesome! Overall you did really well! Best of luck!

Lines:

Overall, your lines section was pretty good! Your superimposed lines tended to fray a little bit at the end, but this is to be expected and you kept them consistent at the start. Your ghosted lines and planes all seemed solid and they will only get better as you use them as warm-ups for future exercises.

Ellipses:

Your ellipses were also done well, but they seemed to be a little stiff at times. Remember, it’s definitely worth sacrificing a little bit of accuracy in order to practice with more loose/relaxed pen strokes. Doing this will allow you to be better prepared for future lessons. Aside from that, all of your work was very consistent, especially your funnels!

Boxes:

For your boxes, there were also no underlying issues that I feel need to be addressed. Your plotted perspective was neat and rough perspective, while inaccurate at times, showed a good understanding of what you should be doing, which s important as accuracy will developed better over time. You showed understanding of how boxes move in relation to each other in the rotated boxes exercise, which is really a bonus as that exercise is pretty tricky. Your first set of organic perspective definitely had some troubles, but these all seemed to be addressed in your second sheet. Maybe use these as warm-ups in the future just to make sure that you have all of the concepts down!

The way I helped with preventing curves in my lines was by first ghosting my line a few times, placing my pen at the start of my line, immediatley looking at where I wanted my line to end, and drawing my line towards that quickly. Other than that, I'd say most of the issues that you have, like the inside of boxes, will be addressed as you continue through Drawabox. Good luck and I hope to see your posts again soon!

Lines:

Overall, your lines section was pretty good! Things that I would keep in mind in the future though would be to consciously be counteracting the curves in your lines, as they sometimes appear to have a curve to them. This greatly helped me alongside with using your whole arm to draw. Additionally, try to make sure that your lines all start at the same point. For now, its fine if they're not as alligned as much toward the end, but when you go over a line multiple times, you want to make sure that they all start at the same location. Other than that, you appeared to be ghosting and followed the directions well and your lines all turned out pretty good!

Ellipses:

Your ellipses were also done very well throughout the lesson! Even when you went outside of the boxes, you kept your strokes nice and loose and drew through them well! This will be important going forward so its a good thing that you got it down now! I don't have many other critiques except to make sure your lines are straight in the planes for the ellipses in planes exercise. Other than that, your ellipses were all very well done!

Boxes:

For your boxes, you did pretty well for someone who's a newbie to drawing. Your plotted perspective was very well done and had no issues. Your rough perspective was a little "rough" and sometimes your points sometimes were in the wrong places. To avoid this, I'd recommend spending more time on the assignment throughout (placing your points, measuring in your head, ghosting your lines, ect.) as this will just help your drawing in general. Also, don't feel that you need to stick by the points your draw before drawing your lines. If one is off, simply draw a new one and use that instead. This practice also greatly helps in the 250 box challenge. Your rotated boxes showed great potential as you seem to be getting the idea of how to rotate the boxes in relation to each other. As for your organic perspective, I would just recommend having more varying boxes in order to give the illusion that motion is happening, though you seem to have fixed this as you went on.

Great job!

Lines:

Overall, your lines section was very successful! Things that you did correctly throughout included ghosting/plotting out your lines, not fraying your lines at the start, and not trying to correct any mistakes you might've had. In your first few posts, your lines appeared to be a little arched, but this was fixed in further submissions! Consciously thinking about what you need to do to prevent an arched line can help you with this in the future, but you seem to have already corrected this yourself. Additionally, in your later line submissions, your lines consistently didn't fray at the end of you line. Good Job!

Ellipses:

Your ellipses were also done very well throughout the lesson! You managed to draw through your ellipses while managing to mostly keep them in the correct position. They were drawn confidently and smoothly which will greatly help you in future lessons! All in all, your ellipses section was really good and my only advice would be to consciously counteract the arches in your straight lines as before. Sometimes your lines looked a little wobbly, but not enough to warrant any issues!

Boxes:

Unsurprisingly, your boxes section was also very successful! You drew through your boxes when necessary (which will be crucial in the 250 box challenge) and overall did everything as asked! Pretty much nobody gets the rotated boxes assignment right on their first try, but you showed a great deal of understanding of how the boxes should be placed in relation to each other. Your organic perspective was great and I wouldn't change a thing and the same goes for your plotted perspective. Once again, I would just recommend taking your time on lines used in the rough perspective exercise, as they were a little bit wobbly. You will have plenty of time to do so in your 250 box challenge, which I recommend you do next as your lesson 1 was more than sufficient.

Hey! Thanks so much for the awesome feedback! It’s greatly appreciated and I will do my best in order to apply it in my future work!

Lines

Thanks for all of the praise on this section. I definitely see where I curve my lines and will continue to consciously address it in my future work. Drawing faster will for sure help along with drawing with my shoulder. Often I only use my elbow-down on work as the lines being drawn are often very short, but I will do my best to break this habit.

Ellipses

Whether I misread it or just ignored it, I actually didn’t realize that my ellipses were supposed to be symmetrical rather than fit the planes perfectly! I’m not sure why I thought they would, but given your feedback it seems super obvious. Hopefully this won’t give me too much trouble in the future.

Boxes

In the rough perspective exercise, I can definitely see how my lines were a little wobbly. This has been pretty frustrating to me, but I’m trying to best to remind myself on each line that I draw to make them as straight as possible, rather than doing them without thinking.

As for the rotated boxes, I definitely feel that I can greatly improve on the assignment! I get what you mean and about the line work and hatching being sketchy, and feel that this can be fixed with more practice as well as using more space. I felt frustrated when the boxes didn’t turn out as I intended, so I’ll be sure to try to focus more on improvement than success as I go on.

For the organic perspective, I really like the idea of overlapping boxes and using line weight to differentiate them! I was nervous about messing up the boxes by doing this, so I will definitely try to apply this the next time I do the exercise!

Additional Page of Rough Perspective

https://imgur.com/RoOtDJk

Doing this extra page greatly helped me to focus on the straightness of my lines, which I believe to be a weakness of mine. There were a few times when I accidentally marked my paper when ghosting, but overall did my best to avoid re-doing lines. Additionally, I sometimes overshot the lines a little bit, but would rather do this while having less wobbly lines than avoid addressing the issue. Overall, I felt that with a few exceptions, I was happier with this attempt than the previous ones!

Thanks for the critique!