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The "hold your pen higher and lighter" you can do that with both long line and short line but with the short one it would be harder than hold your pen normally

If your hand is blocking your view while ghosting, you could change your pen angle or try to look at both end befor and while you drawing your line, take a quick look and follow your line.

On warm up I would recommend you do 1/4 of the rotated boxes and 1 page of the funnel exercise but without the C line on both side. for this time you want to get better at understand object and stuff in 3d space and rotated it sonbest is rotated your boxes.

Hello Chadarts! Today i'll critique your homework and give you my feedback.

• Line: your line quality is really good and well done. They all confident and smooth eventhough some of your line in the Ghosted Planes exercise is little overshoot with a bit of wobbly. To deal with the overshooting line mistake you can "Try lifting your pen off the page the second you hit that end point. Lifting it up is a much more reliable action you can perform far more responsively, and it avoids the hesitation you get from slowing down.In general, overshooting isn't that big of a deal right now. You'll get better at it, and it's always better than hesitating. Still, this approach can solve two problems at once" (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ghostedlines). The way I do is keep myself calm and relax before execute my line, hold my pen higher and lighter for the longer line and draw with a fast and comfortable speed.

• Ellipses: Your tables of ellipses are pretty good. there are variety of ellipses shape but most of them are inconsistent and uneven. remember ellipses are symmetrical on both sides, with each end being the same width as the other so make sure to ghosting it carefully and draw it by using your shoulder. This exercise is mainly to train your shoulder and make smooth shape, line so enough pratices will help you. Your Ellipses in Planes exercise has been done well. Your ellipses are smooth and look kinda even, they all touch the edge of the plane so thats meet the requirement of the exercise. Your funnel look pretty good, i think you understand the way that the funnels are supposed to look and have done it pretty well for the most part eventhough some of them is little wobbly. Overall your ellipses is real good and smooth. the only thing is consistent and keep it even which will improve through time.

• Boxes: Your Rough Perspective exercise is well done. but i see you are redrawing your line, this is not a good habit. all your lines should be done in a single brave, and confident stroke. Aside from that your boxes is good and the extended lines all converge toward near the VP just a few of the farther box is a bit off. What you can do is ghost your line, place dot that you think where the back line should be, map out your boxe and then you can commit your line. Your Rotated Boxes are quite good, although your boxes are a bit far away from each other. It's also important to the exercise to use the sides of neighboring boxes as guides, and place the vertices of your new box close to the vertices of the old box. This would help with how some boxes (like that one in the top left) look out of place. In Organic Perspective, your boxes themselves look abit weird thats because some of them have diverge line and that is understandable, you will improve after you tackle the 250boxes challenge so dont worrie.

• Hello Rancher! Today I'll review your homework and give you some feedback to improve and get better at understanding the concept of perspertive and boxes.

  • Line: After look through your Superimposed Lines, Ghosted Lines homework I can say that you did understand the main priority of this exercise which is smoothness and confident. Most of them arent wobbly but they seems like curving toward one side. maybe you are putting too much pressure on your pen and hand so make sure to keep your self calm, no need to rush. Hold your pen little higher than usual for the long line, ghosting a few time and make sure you are drawing with your shoulder and try to arch the lines to the opposite direction while ghosting. Now to the Ghosted Planes homework, there are alot of wobbly lines here. Smoothness and confident is the main component so make sure you ghost your line first and draw your line abit faster. overall faster and confident < accurate.

  • Ellipses: First off, your ellipses are not consistent. Most of them are wobbly and not touch the edge of the plane. So to get familier with ellipse you could try draw a few quick super loose ones (not in a table or anything), then a few aligned with a minor axis (like this: https://imgur.com/a/FVVPp6Z ), then do constrained ellipses (like one or two panels of a table) as a warm up. experient on your speed and angle.

  • Boxes: Lets start with your Rough Perspective exercise. most of your boxes are not accurate and you seems like guessing alot more than actual ghosting the line so I encourage you to watch the video of the lesson and read the article. here on the website they also point out this mistake (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/roughperspective):

  "If you ever catch yourself guessing or uncertain about how to draw a line, stop and step back. Take a look at the system you're working with, and think about the short list of possible behaviours. In one point perspective (which we are using for this exercise), you have the following behaviours:

All lines that go off into the distance converge at the vanishing point

All horizontal lines run perfectly parallel to the horizon

All vertical lines run perfectly perpendicular to the horizon

There are simply no other options. Every single line will adhere to one of these three behaviours. So, find which one matches the line you're trying to draw, and then apply it.

It is fair to say that in one point perspective, you can have lines that don't run parallel or perpendicular to the horizon, but - these rules are going to hold fast here however because for the purposes of this exercise, all of our boxes are going to run parallel to the ground plane, rather than being slanted or angled".

        Now to the Rotated Boxes exercise: I notice that you are facing two mistake which is Not keeping things together and Not drawing through boxes. again I encourage you to check the website to get the better understanding of what mistake you might facing, why is it bad and how you can fix it (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/rotatedboxes). I cant really explain all thing about the concept of perspective and think in 3d space, that would take alot of time and english is not my mother language so I will put a link of videos that has helped me understand the concept of perspective:

        -https://youtu.be/bv3Yvfouf2o

        -https://youtu.be/YDanHdjPJVs

        -https://youtu.be/MNA1oBmWRY4

        Not only watch but practice as well. First you can start experiment by drawing a box through varies angle using ruler to know what its like, try observe object inside your house, imagine those object like a box. 

        Last one is the Organic Perspective exercise: First thing i notice is you are hatching your line alot and your boxes does not give the feel of they are coming toward the viewer (first page). so i suggest you next time you revisit this exercise make sure to ghost your line, resis the hatching habit. with boxes as they are toward the viewer they should be bigger, on how they rotate you have to get your head to understand and thinking in 3d space.

        overall you have alot more thing to improve and fix. The curving, hatching habit on your line. The inconsistent, uneven on your ellipese and your understand of 3d space. i suggest do reviste some exercise before the 250 boxes challenge............

No problem! good luck and stay happy.

Hello Otakualtair! today i'll critique your homework and give you some feedback.

• Line: Your line is really good. They all smooth and straight forward. The only problem I've notice that some of them are little overshoot (ex:Ghosted Lines, Ghosted Planes and Organic Perspective). To prevent overshooting your line, you can tried to end your line earlier than how you usually draw. overall smoothness is priority so you've achive that well. With time and practice your accuracy will eventually become second nature.

• Ellipses: After take a look at your Tables of Ellipses and Ellipses in Planes I see your ellipses is inaccurate. Some of them ellipses shapes are inconsistent. remember confident and consistent is the main priority so tried to aim to get as close to the edge of the plane as possible. On the other hand Your Funnels homework done real good. They all pretty even and consistent so pro to that.

• Boxes: First one is Rough perspective- Your boxes line is little curve. Some boxes look a bit weird especially the back corner. They all seems to converge torward vanishing point, some of the further boxes is stray abit. Now to Rotated Boxes and Organic Perspective exercise- This exercise was done well, although some boxes have diverging lines, im sure you will improve after the 250 box challenge, this will help solve this problem.

  Overall even there are some issue that need to be fix but I can see that you are ready for the next course which is the 250 boxes challenge so congrat and good luck on your next journey.

Hello Bigmoose! Today i'll critique your homework.

-Line

+ Superimposed Lines: your line is wobbly alot but it seems like you've improved abit at the second page. for better line I suggest you ghosting your line and execute it fast and confident.

+ Ghosted Lines: The first thing to point out is that you are focusing on making your line accurate but wobbly alot. You are forcing your line to where it meant to end so that end up with a ton of wobbly line. For now, working on getting your lines straight is more important than having them go to the right place.

+ Ghosted Planes: On this exercise, the only problem I notice is some of your line is overshoot and under shoot. This can improve through time and practise enough. overall your line is smooth and confident so im happy with that.

• Elipses

  • Tables of Ellipses: Your elipses are mostly done correctly with varriety of shape and angle. But some is wobbly and lack of confident. This can improve by doing this exercise as warm up next time.

  • Ellipses in Planes: They are little wobbly but you done them correct, they touch every edge of the plane so that's good,

  • Funnels: Seems like you understand the concept of the homework.

    • I dont know what to say. Elipse is a pain for me either.

  • Boxes

  • Plotted Perspective: I dont need to say much about this exercise since its mainly helping you understand about perspective.

  • Rough Perspective: Your first page is a bit messy, I assume that you arent familier with this concept so that's okay. The second page is much better, seems like you are improving alot.

  • Rotated Boxes: Seems like you have the idea of it, some of the boxes are not fully rotated. overal this exercise is abit overwhelmed for beginer tho.

  • Organic Perspective: Your boxes ratio is not consistent, some of the boxes look the same despite of distances. On the boxes it self, I see a few with diverging lines but you will work on that on the 250 boxes challenge.

  Overall: You seem to understand all the concepts covered in the lessons but seem to be struggling with line work. You’ll have plenty of time to practice it during the 250 boxes. I suggest you do a revisions if you can on the Organic Perspective exercise, this time make sure your focus on the different, relationship of boxes in space in closer and further view and pay attendtion on how you want your boxes turn in space and the concept of vanishing point. not every object belong to one vanishing point but every object have their own vanishing point. for now i think you are ready for the 250 boxes challenge.

Thank you for your feedback.

1.I have done the organic perspective homework one more time and that does help me a lot. my line is much smoother and despite the urge to fix the line like last time, I overcome it, except my mistake.

2. Oh boy, I'm glad that you told me to change the paper. The print paper is much easier to draw and I have so much room to draw, the old one definitely messes me up.

   Here is one more sheet of organic perspective. https://imgur.com/a/zgidbin.

Hi I just start drawabox journey so I'm still a newbie here. I don't know if my critique is good enough so don't take it too serious.

I see that you are doing a pretty good job on most exercise but there is a few thing I want to point out.

1. In your superimposed line, ghosted plane exercise, i can see you are focused on the smoothness which is good but there is a few arc in there. So when i do this exercise I usually hold my pen a bit higher than usual, don't put too much force to it and keep your self calm and confident with every stroke even if it won't go to where you intended. Just make sure to avoid arc as much as possible.

2. Now the organic perspective exercise. You are doing good at rotating it but your boxes is little distorted? Or foreshortened because each parallel line the boxes is too narrowed to the vanishing point. Just keep it subtle if you can don't make it extremely narrow. I don't good at explaining but I usually think like this: more narrow mean the vanishing point is closer to the object, if the VP is closer often cause distortion.

   That's all the thingg i want to point out. Congrats on the lesson 1 completion and hope you ready to tackle the 250boxes challenge.