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Fantastic!

Thanks Nathan! :)

Hello aeshnabx!

Overall, you are off to a really nice start!

Lines

Your lines are overall pretty confident with smooth and continuous flow. There are some that waver/wobble, particularly on the ghosted lines, as you draw towards the targeted point. To note, confidence should take precedence and be prioritized before accuracy. It’s ok that the lines aren’t fully accurate, as it is imperative to first develop the shoulder muscle memory to draw out smooth, confident strokes. Essentially, a confident stroke that is slightly inaccurate is better than an accurate but wobbly line. So continue to ghost and execute every line with your shoulder.

Though it's a rather rare occurance, I'd still like to point out that on the 2nd page of the ghosted planes, some lines overshoot way beyond their end points. While yes, they go beyond their trajectory, they are confident lines, and that's more important at this stage.

Ellipses

Ellipses are off to a good start and are generally confident. There are a couple of exceptions, where a couple of ellipses wobble or turn sharply as you fit them in their allotted spaces. Just as with lines, focus first on confident smooth strokes. Then work on maintaining its roundedness, and then accuracy last. Ellipses in the funnel are generally aligned to the minor axis (just a couple snuck away, like the bottom ellipses of the top left funnel). Also, great job drawing through each ellipse appropriately (2-3 times).

Boxes

As you continue to go through your boxes, there are some nice confident lines. But there is still a fair share of hesitant lines. So remember to take your time to plan, ghost, and execute the line confidently with your shoulder for every line.

Also, some lines are repeated/corrected. No matter how tempting it is to correct an errant line, do not correct or repeat over it to correct it.

Plotted perspective

Not much to say here, looks good!

Rough perspective

You’ve done a pretty nice job maintaining horizontal lines are parallel to the horizon line, and vertical lines perpendicular to it. The convergence to the VP aren't too bad.

Rotating boxes

First off, congratulations on getting through this exercise! The boxes are generally rotating along the vertical and horizontal axes, so nice job with that. You are drawing through all of your boxes, which is great! The boxes could afford to be tighter in terms of how they are neighbored to each other.

Organic perspective

As the boxes get slightly smaller on the path, you’ve conveyed a sense that they move slightly away from the viewer. In terms of perspective, there are some sets of parallel lines that diverge away, making planes that are further away appear to get larger instead of slightly smaller. While not a big deal, a lot of the boxes have the same type of orientation. But no worries, you'll get plenty of practice and opportunity to experiment various orientations in the 250 box challenge!

With that congratulations on completing Lesson 1!

Hello there Harmin!

Overall, you're off to a pretty decent start.

Lines

Lines are admittedly off to a wobbly. start. It appears you are focusing on maintaining accurate lines, making sure they start and end at the points you have established. As this is an introduction to get you to develop shoulder muscle memory, it's ok to sacrifice accuracy. The primary focus is to gain smooth, confident strokes using your shoulder. And as you develop the muscle memory and become more confident, you can hone in on being more accurate. With that said, as you go through your exercises and into boxes, I notice there are some nice smooth strokes, but they are still mixed with wobbly lines.

Ellipses

Similar with lines, ellipses are off to a wobbly start. There are some nice, decent ellipses that have smooth and confident strokes. Also, be careful of ellipses that turn sharply as you try to fit them in their allotted spaces. Just as with lines, focus on developing the confident strokes first and then focus on accuracy, then finally on roundness. Ellipses are certainly challenging, so don't be discouraged! It'll take time, but continue to practice and try to play with speed a bit (e.g.-speeding them up a bit) until you find a speed that you can control and maintain confident strokes with. Your ellipses in funnels are generally aligned the minor axis, so nice job with that.

Boxes

Before I go into detail of each exercise, I want to point out to be careful not to reinforce/correct lines. No matter how wrong and no matter how tempting it is to correct an errant line, do not do so. To help with this, you can use dots to your advantage and move them as needed (which you are already doing, so that is great). As aforementioned, it's ok to be off on accuracy a bit at this time.

Rough Perspective

The vertical lines are generally perpendicular to the horizon line, and horizontal lines are parallel to it. So nice job in maintaining that. The convergences on the boxes are not too bad either, as the lines of the planes' edges go back on the horizon line near your targeted vanishing point. I would like to encourage you to also try boxes that are further away from the vanishing point.

Rotated boxes

First, congratulations on getting through this exercise! It's certainly a tough one. The boxes along the vertical and horizontal axes are generally [not rotating] (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating), meaning they are sharing a similar or the same vanishing point. Otherwise, the boxes are fairly well neighobred to each other and you are drawing through each box.

Organic Perspective

As the boxes move away from the viewer, they convey a sense they are slightly getting smaller, so nice job with that. There are some typical issues with a shared set of parallel lines diverging, making the farther edge of a plane larger rather than smaller. But no worries, you will delve into this more in the 250 box challenge!

Hello llugaes!

Overall, you have done a fairly decent job!

Lines

In superimposed lines, there is occasional fraying occurring at both ends of the line. Other times you are starting at the same starting point, so just make sure you do this for each superimposed line.

Your lines admittedly start off a little hesitant, where they generally wobble. This is normal as you start off, since you’re working on developing that shoulder muscle memory. Though to note, confidence should take precedence and be prioritized before accuracy. It’s ok that the lines aren’t fully accurate, as it is imperative to first develop the shoulder muscle memory to draw out smooth, confident strokes. So continue to ghost and execute every line with your shoulder. Essentially, a confident stroke that is slightly inaccurate is better than an accurate but wobbly line. With that said, however, I notice some improvement in your boxes, so keep on that path.

Ellipses

Ellipses are off to a fairly decent start with a pretty good share of confident ellipses. There are some that wobble, and other times they turn sharply as you fit your ellipses in their allotted spaces. This causes the ellipses to be misshaped. Just as with lines, focus first on confident smooth strokes. Then work on maintaining its roundedness, and then accuracy last.

Ellipses in the funnel are generally aligned to the minor axis; good job.

You’re mostly drawing through your ellipses appropriately (2-3 times), which is great. There are instances, however, where they are only drawn through about 1.5 times. Draw through each ellipses fully 2 times through (3 is also acceptable, but no more than that).

Boxes

As you continue to go through your boxes, there are some nice confident lines. But there is a fair share of sketchy and repeated lines. No matter how tempting it is to correct an errant line, do not correct or repeat over it to correct it. To help prevent this, take your time with planning with dots and ghosting. The great thing about dots is you don’t have to commit to the very first dot(s) you place. They can be moved around as you see fit before you commit to a line. But once you draw the line, stick with what you have even if it’s wrong.

Rough perspective

You’ve done a pretty nice job maintaining horizontal lines to be parallel to the horizon line, and vertical lines perpendicular to it.

Rotating boxes

Great job getting through this exercise!

The boxes along the horizontal axis are rotating, so nice job with that. The boxes along the vertical axes are actually not rotating, meaning the boxes are sharing a similar or the same vanishing point as the box adjacent to it.

Great job keeping the boxes well neighbored to each other and drawing through your boxes.

Organic perspective

It looks like you’re missing a page, but I’ll take a look at the one you have.

While you have 3 frames, they should be rectangular as you've done with the plotted and rough perspective exercises. Also, don’t be afraid to take advantage of using the page in its entirety.

As the boxes get slightly smaller on the path, you’ve conveyed a sense that they move slightly away from the viewer.

In terms of perspective, there are some sets of parallel lines that diverge away, making planes that are further away appear to get larger instead of slightly smaller. But no worries, you’ll delve into this more in the 250 Box Challenge!

While you’re missing a page of organic perspective, I think you can move onto the 250 Box Challenge, but keeping in mind what was mentioned throughout. Just to summarize and reiterate some of those key points here:

• Ghost and draw with your shoulder

• Confident strokes before accuracy

• Do not reinforce or correct errant lines (Use plotting dots and move them as needed before committing to a line)

Hello there, Ellothere! :)

It appears 1 page of superimposed lines is missing, but I'll go ahead and take a look at the submission.

Overall, you have done a nice job!

Lines

Your lines are overall pretty confident with smooth and continuous flow. There are some that wobble a bit as you draw towards the targeted point. To note, confidence should take precedence and be prioritized before accuracy. It’s ok that the lines aren’t fully accurate, as it is imperative to first develop the shoulder muscle memory to draw out smooth, confident strokes. So continue to ghost and execute every line with your shoulder. Essentially, a confident stroke that is slightly inaccurate is better than an accurate but wobbly line.

Ellipses

Ellipses are off to a fairly decent start with a pretty good share of confident ellipses. There are some that wobble. Just as with lines, focus first on confident smooth strokes. Then work on maintaining its roundedness, and then accuracy last. Ellipses in the funnel are generally aligned to the minor axis. Just be careful when planning out the alternative funnels (in the corners, but particularily on the top right) that you have one minor axis line going through the ellipses. Nice job drawing through each ellipses appropriately (2-3 times).

Boxes

You maintain some nice, confident lines, but there are some that still wobble. The great news, however, is I'm not really seeing any lines (except a couple) that are automatically reinforced, which is what happens when a line doesn't go the way we want it to and we try to fix it by drawing a new/corrected line over it. Basically, you stuck with the lines you drew and didn't fall into the temptation of correcting it, which is awesome!

Rough perspective

A couple of things to keep in mind for this exercise:

• Horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line

• Vertical lines should be perpendicular to the horizon line

While there are plenty of evidence you are doing this (which is certainly a challenge in itself!), there are some lines that stray off diagonally.

Rotating boxes

First, congratulations on getting through this exercise!

The boxes are generally rotating along the vertical and horizontal axes, though try to push to rotate the boxes a little more on the horizontal axis by shifting their vanishing point over more. Otherwise, the boxes are well neighbored to each other, and you are drawing through your boxes, which is great.

Organic perspective

As the boxes get slightly smaller on the path, you’ve conveyed a sense that they move slightly away from the viewer. In terms of perspective, you're off to a good start. There are some sets of parallel lines that diverge away, making planes that are further away appear to get larger instead of slightly smaller. But no worries, you’ll have plenty of practice in the 250 Box Challenge!

With that said, keep up the good work! (Although there's a page missing, I think you're heading towards the right direction, so I'd say keep going.)

Hello parippuvada!

It appears you're missing a few exercises:

• 1 page of ellipses in funnels

• 1 page of plotted perspective

• 1 page of organic perspective (1 page) (There was a duplicate linked out)

If you can please upload those 3 pages, I'd be more than happy to take a look at this submission.

Hi there! I'm sorry for the late reply, but I'm glad that I could help!

Thank you for your follow up; these look better! There's still some wobble and some lines are not quite making it to its end point, but that's ok. You're heading in the right path. Keep practicing these lines in your warm-ups, and keep using your shoulder/arm to continue developing that muscle memory. With that said, I'll mark this lesson complete!

Hello there!

Lines

Your lines are overall pretty confident and smooth. There are some that wobble wobble as you draw towards the targeted point. To note, confidence should take precedence and be prioritized before accuracy. It’s ok that the lines aren’t fully accurate, as it is imperative to first develop the shoulder muscle memory to draw out smooth, confident strokes. So continue to ghost and execute every line with your shoulder. Essentially, a confident stroke that is slightly inaccurate is better than an accurate but wobbly line.

With that said, however, be careful that you take the time to start and align your pen right at the plotted dot. While yes, you have smooth and confident strokes, there is a lot of overshooting on both starting and end points of your plotted dots. This continues throughout your boxes. Even if accuracy isn’t a priority at this time, there should at the very least be a solid starting point. I feel you may be rushing or drawing at a quick speed, so try to slow it down a bit. You want to develop a speed that you can control and have confident lines with. This will take some time, as you continue to develop your shoulder muscle memory. Then once you get that down, you can start to work on reducing overshooting at the end by lifting the pen up the moment you hit that end point.

Ellipses

There are some decently done ellipses that are confident, round, and drawn through fairly tightly. There are others that are really loose and at times turn sharply as you fit them in their allotted space. So just as with lines, try to experiment with speed; slow it down some (not so much that it gets wobbly). Another thing to note is you are drawing through your ellipses, which is great. However, be careful to not draw them through too many times. Aim to draw through each ellipse fully 2 times through (3 is acceptable, but no more than that). In some moments, you end the ellipse with a straight tail or hook away from the original form. As you’re coming to the end of drawing the ellipse, lift your pen while you continue to motion the ellipse instead of away from the ellipse.

Boxes

Before I delve into the specific exercises, I wanted to bring up another point about lines (aside from what was aforementioned about starting points). Generally, your lines are repeated/corrected. No matter how tempting it is to correct an errant line, do not correct or reinforce it. You’re using dots to plan out your marks, so that’s great! But once you draw that line, stick to it even if it’s wrong.

Rough perspective

The boxes are admittedly start off rushed and messy in the first panel, so it’s a little difficult to discern what is happening. But I can get a better sense of your lines thereafter, despite it still feeling rushed.

A couple of things to keep in mind for this exercise:

• Horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line

• Vertical lines should be perpendicular to the horizon line

While there is plenty of evidence you are doing this (which is certainly a challenge in itself!), there are some lines that stray off diagonally.

Rotating boxes

First, great job getting through this exercise. Unfortunately, it’s honestly hard to follow the lines to see exactly what’s going on. While I see moments where you shifted the vanishing points to rotate the boxes (I’m looking at the outer boxes on the major axes), there is so much repeated/corrected lines to establish any true connection. The extra lines break the form, meaning the boxes no longer appear to be boxes. Despite this, I do want to point out that your hatching lines are pretty decently done. They are generally confident, tight, consistent and parallel to each other. Moreover, there are clear starting and end points, which is what we want for ALL lines.

Organic perspective

As the boxes move away in space (away from the viewer) they get slightly smaller, so nice job with that. In terms of perspective, there are some sets of parallel lines that diverge away, making planes that are further away appear to get larger instead of slightly smaller. There are also some dramatic foreshortening occurring, which for this exercise we want to avoid. But no worries, you’ll get to delve into this more in the 250 box challenge.

In conclusion, I think the submission felt rather rushed, particularly the line marking as I've mentioned throughout. Before you move on to the next challenge (if you haven’t already done so), I’d like to see 1 more page of ghosted planes. Remember, take your time planning, ghosting, and executing the line.

Oh! Just saw you reuploaded the link in a new submission and got some feedback. So you're good to go. Good luck with your box challenge!