Tri_Iris

Your arrows are a good attempt and is better than the first ones. That is a pass in my book!

For organic forms, there seems to be problems with ellipses. It still seems wobbly and not confident. I suggest looking back on lesson 1 warmup like ellipses in tables or planes.

Overall, the revisions were good, you may continue on

Thank you for the critique. I'll keep this in mind when I go into bugs

Ah, this was super critical. Some pros I saw was that the lines were confident, this is a major and you continued to do it, You also correctly put the extensions in the right directions.

Hello! I'll be reviewing your work.

So the first thing I noticed is that you didn't add lineweight to the boxes, this isn't a big problem, but it is recommended that you do this.

Also I think you forgot to take one more photo for the last 250 box.

Now for the important thing.

Your boxes nearly have the same orientation and size every time. The point of the exercise is to draw different types of boxes, from being long, wide, and in different field of view. https://imgur.com/Kqg6uMX here are some ideas for doing orientation.

Having the same foreshortening. This is mentioned in the challenge https://drawabox.com/lesson/250boxes/1/foreshortening. Putting vanishing points close can teach you about the different types of ways you can do with perspective with backgrounds or characters.

Hatching is lazily done. Make sure each line is done with confidence and with purpose. When you do hatching, it looks lazy and not done properly, this part is important as it clarifies the fronting face of the box.

THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL, INNER CONNER. The inner corner is one of the hardest things to do with boxes, and it was a good attempt to do it. A good way to think of the inner corner is comparing with the lines that are outside, I'm not good at explaining, but https://i.imgur.com/8PqQLE0.png/ explains how it works.

I'm not sure doing revisions would help, but practicing during lesson 2 can help, make sure to warmup with boxes once in a while, especially in the intersection exercise.

I'll be reviewing your work!

Lines

• I didn't noticing anything wrong in the exercises. In Superimposed Lines, you did everything good, so did in Planes and Ghosting Lines, you understood very well!

Ellipses

• I'm scared of your work. The ellipses overall are pretty good, pretty confident and very nice. In Table of Ellipses, your ellipses seem to struggle at first, without any confidence, but it improved after the second page, good job!

• WIth your Ellipses in Planes there are parts where ellipses don't touch the edge, but it is only a few of it and very confident!

Boxes

• Nothing really much to say here. There needs to be some hatching in the boxes, but your boxes are believable and very nice.

• Rough Perspective is really nice and you understood the lesson really well.

• With Rotated Boxes, it is a little rough, lots of people struggle with it, but a note is that it should be parallel to the box right next to it, look through this again https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/step7, it can help you read the boxes easier.

Overall, very nice attempt in this lesson, you can move on to 250 Box Challenge

250 Box Challenge next up!

Hey, the link seems to broken. Can you resend it again?

Nevermind, overall, all of them look good, I think they look good! I need to do another reply to say you completed.

Hey, I'll be reviewing your work!

You should post the 250 Box Challenge so that someone can review it and give you tips further on, but if its complete, I'll just review it as is.

In Arrows, the lines are confident and clean, but a problem is that the arrows that the arrows don't have depth to them. An example of this would be https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/011d064f.jpg. As the arrows goes trowards the viewer, the farther part is more compressed then the other. This gives the illusion of space and creates a convincing arrow. Another is that it is recommended that you add line weight, where the lines overlap so that it is easier to read.

In Organic Forms, the forms aren't the same all around, it should be a tube connected by two balls https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/0f7c806c.jpg. The ellipses in the first page of it aren't confident. It is important that you go back in earlier lessons to refresh your mind and get the musle memory after moving. Another one is that some of the ellipses are not aligned to the line you drew. Your ellipses don't have a noticeable change in degrees, which doesn't make sense and there needs to be some sort of change. In the second page, the lines wrapping the form look off. Just like ellipses, there needs to be some change to it, and adding too much of it can break the 3D form of it. Remember, you are drawing from outside the forms from the viewers perspective.

In Textures, the problem I have is that you didn't fill the textures, or used them in a way that made this sort of gradient e.g with the paper texture not being black or white, and had a clear intention of having a gradient. This is not ideal as this exercise was to practice choosing which are black forms and which are white forms, not try to do crosshatching to make a gray form. Another thing is filling the black shapes, it looks unfinished, but isn't a problem, just try to fill up the black shapes and don't try to lazily put it in

In Dissections, there is the same problems in textures, like not filling shapes. Overall, there isn't anythign that stood out, it looks like mine when I started and I would say this is the most time consuming exercise.

Time for my favorite, Intersections. In the first page, it just seemed like you just drew around your boxes which isn't good, but this is a hard excercise. You won't go back through this until later on, and I won't be judging to harshly. All of the forms look like they are from the same space, so that it a gold star for me.

In Organic Intersections, same with organic forms, the forms outside look flat and needs to be a tube connecting two balls. Overall, there isn't anything that seems off (that could be me being lazy so yea).

I think taking a review of Arrows and Organic Forms would help with the lessons later on. I'll be giving you revisions

Hello! I'll be reviewing your work!

Lines

• Your lines are looking good for Super Imposed Lines is pretty good, gold star

• In Ghosting Lines, I noticed that there is slight wobbling in the lines, and that can be fixed with confidence, don't be afraid to make it perfect, just try to make a straight line when doing this excercise

• This goes with Ghosting Planes, as I see the slight wobbliness when doing these excercise

Ellipses

• In Tables of Ellipses, your ellipses seem to lack confidence. The same with lines, there needs to be confidence to draw them, and hesitating it might stunt your growth. This goes with the other exercises that do with ellipses

• Overall, nearly all ellipses in the exercise kept in their boundaries. Some did not touch all the way, but this is quite good for students doing Lesson 1.

• In Funnels, you did good aligning with the minor axis, good job :>

Boxes

• In Plotted Perspective, I think hatching the visible faces would do good to set if the boxes are behind another form and vice versa, but this isn't really important.

• In Rough Perspective, some of the lines on the boxes are not parallel or perpendicular to the horizon line https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/step4 refer to this for more explanation

• In Rotated Boxes, this was a good attempt at it, not perfect, but you understood the lesson well. Make sure to hatch in places between the boxes so that it is easier to read.

• Finnaly, in Organic Boxes, these look pretty good! Nothing to critique except that it looks like you tried to correct them, which might be something that needs to be worked on.

All you need is confidence! I will give you revisions to help you out with this

Ok, I'm gonna be reviewing your work, and I'm gonna say this now. It is recommended that you use printer paper, not paper from a notebook. Now if you can't have any printer paper, you could take out the paper from the notebook and use that so that you can move it around and leave it on a flat surface. I'm assuming that the wobbliness on the lines are due to the paper being warped on the binder. I'm gonna ignore all of that, but make sure to get printer paper or take out the notebook paper so that it doesn't do this

Anyways, back to Lines :>

Lines

• Your lines in Super Imposed Lines look pretty good, but there are some fraying on both ends on some of the lines. I really can't tell but make sure you pay attention to where you put your pen when doing this excercise

• Ok, this is where I'm gonna be rough, in Ghosting Lines the lines are arched. This is a problem as it shows that you might be using something other than your shoulder. This can be fixed by hovering your elbow over the table and not resting it on anything.

• Overall, all the lines aren't the best, as they arc, but this can be fixed as you go on the rest of the lessons.

Ellipses

• In Table of Ellipses, your ellipses are pretty outside the boundaries. Try to keep it in without it going outside that much, even if its a tiny bit outside.

• You did draw your ellipses the recommended 2-3 times so good job, but...

• With Ellipses in Planes the ellipses should touch the sides of the planes, some of the ellipses you drew was in one attempt, now that could be because its blurry, but it seems like it.

• In the Funnels, the ellipses in some are not centered to the minor axis, and some are not overshooting the boundaries and some are undershot.

• Overall, the ellipses should be focused on the most, as most are outside or to small in the boundaries they are in, this needs to be looked at more.

Boxes

• In Plotted Perspective, you did a pretty good job, although I think you missed one of the boxes hatching, and that some look wobbly (again with the binder of the notebook).

• In Rough Perspective, it is also pretty good, but the lines are wobbly, going back to the lines exercise, every line has to be ghosted to get smooth and precise lines, I did this before without looking back, and now see the importance of it.

• Now, for Rotated Boxes, this is the hardest exercise and it doesn't seem like you preformed it well. I will be lighter in this as this is where beginner struggle, but the boxes should look like a sorta globe. The corner boxes aren't following the vanishing of the boxes on the x and y axis, it just looks parallel. Don't be afraid to copy from the lessons, it can help try to understand how boxes work.

• In Organic Perspective, they look pretty good, the boxes are on the line and the boxes look like they are coming through a window.

Overall, there are some revisions that is needed.