boxrouser

you struggled with getting the lines to converge properly the entire challenge, which is completely fine, you aren't alone.

Are you using the Y method? it is the best way to draw boxes at this stage, since it allows you to grasp all of the box's dimensions at once.

Also, it looks like you would have benefited from reviewing the instructions, since sometimes you forget to follow guidelines such as "keep the y's arms at angles greater than 90 degree else the box will look weird."

Your lines are confident.

A common issue (seen on boxes no. 41 and 48( is that you will have two lines with shallow convergence coupled by an extremely step line.

Also, you should extend the lines as far on the page as possible, this will make your mistakes much more visible.

The lines also diverge from time to time.

also, the first firty don't have vanishing points

Thanks for the thoughtful reply!

I agree with you on not having to work on everything every day, so I will try to reorganize my schedule to reflect that.

Yes, you surely can (and maybe even should) do more than one thing at once, DaB is like drawing grammar, it's general and will help you to draw pretty much anything, but, just like writers, artists can't live out of drawing "grammar" only, you gotta focus on the stuff want to draw as well.

HI, Simon, your review is good, but I think you should have adressed the small paper size, since that will make drawing from the shoulder tougher for them.

Hi,ust kinda adding to what Simon already said, but you really should consider doing the exercises on normal sized printer paper. Notepads are too small, so drawing confidently from your shoulder will be harder and take longer to get used to (not to mention how cluttered the exercises will get after lesson 2).

General:

You keep trying to correct your lines by drawing one on top of the other, which is:

a) Pointless because it's an exercise and beauty is far from from being the goal, not to mention the fact that the extensions can (and, in my opnion, should) be based on the planning points.

b) Harmful because it hinders your confidence, making your lines uglier on the long run.

You use one extension color per box, but making each axis (X, Y,Z)a different color will make it easier to find mistakes.

First 50:

You understood what you were supposed to do. Some lines extensions wobble, maybe you free handed those? Your main problem seems to be the inner edges being more off than than the rest, which is very common, since those are where all your little innnacuries are piled on.

Next 50:

Most boxes have a high convergence rate, which is shown by the extensions converging either in the page or very close to its borders. Nothing serious, but it can certainly undermine the effectivity of the challenge.

Last 150:

Sometimes the back planes of the boxes are way off, sometimes this has to do with you not finding a good

balance between the three hindmost edges despite having enough leeway for that, but a lot of the time it's because one of the three front edges of a set doesn't converge as much as the other two.

Also, sometimes the middle lines are weird, this might help you understand why. Basically, the closer they are on the page, the more paralel they are

Otherwise your boxes are good.

Thanks for the review, man, you really put in the effort to explain what my mistakes are, and I my boxes will be better for it.

É, a mensagem foi escrita em português mesmo.

As ghosted lines estão boas.

Oh, no. You won't have to do everything at once, just work on some of them for 15 minutes at the beginning of each sitting, but make sure you keep changing them as to not leave anything behind.

Uncomfortable describes it in more detail:

https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/3/warmups

Superimposed lines: As linhas ficam ondulando, o que pode indicar que você tentou "corrigir" a linha no meio do caminho por medo de errar ao invés de só desehar a linha com confiança, confiando no ghosting que você fez antes. Confiança é muito mais importante do que precisão, se você desenhar sem hesitar por tempo suficiente, a precisão vai chegar. Você tomou o cuidado de posicionar a caneta no ponto inicial, evitando os fiapos (fraying).

Ghosted lines: Você pode mandar a foto depois?

Ghosted planes: Linhas são retas (embora curvem às vezes) e seguem a trajetória correta, mas não terminam no ponto final. Recomendo que você levante a caneta antes, melhor do que ultrapassar.

Table of ellipses: Você conseguiu deixar eles bem encaixados, sem muitos espaços vazios. Eles estão bem formados (o que indica confiança) e há uma boa variedade de graus.

Ellipses in planes): Elipses bem formados e desenhados sem hesitação. Eles não cabem perfeitamente, mas estão perto.

Funnels: Elipses bem alinhados.

Plotted perspective: Bom, mas faça o hatching com sua fineliner.

Rough perspective: Às vezes as faces frontais e traseiras não estão paralelas às bordas, considere colocar mais pontos antes de desenhar as linhas se você ver algo de errado, os pontos são completamente descartáveis. Algumas linhas ondulam.

Só desenhe cada linha uma vez, não há nada a ser ganho com correções, especialmente em um exercício.

Rotated boxes: O seu uso do line weight poderia ter sido mais sútil, mas isso não é muito importante. Você se lembrou de mudar a convergência das linhas de acordo com a rotação das caixas.

Organic perspective: As caixas são variadas e as lihas paralelas convergem. As linhas foram executadas com confiança, embora você tenha "corrigido" algumas (se lembre que tentar esconder seus erros só vai te fazer aprender mais devagar).