No problem, I hope it helps! I'm currently working on the 250 box challenge, so looking through your homework gave me a better idea of how I can improve too :)
Hello! Congrats on finishing lesson 1! Here are a few comments/critiques:
In the first exercise, your lines arch quite a bit. Though I know you are using the shoulder pivot, I think that exercise requires you to draw a line with a ruler first, then go over it. This might help in visualizing straight lines. However, I don't think arched lines are a problem later on, so this is probably fine. Also, try to use up all of the space on your paper!
For your ellipses: I know I make this mistake too, but ellipses must be drawn through 2-3 times. I can see some are drawn through much more than 3 times, and others are drawn through only once. Take a look here for the reasoning behind it: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/11/drawingthrough. Also, on a smaller note, on the ellipse tables, try to keep your ellipses reaching edge to edge, filling up the space provided.
This may have been a misunderstanding, but on your first box exercise, I think there should be a full page's worth (around three frames per page). This can help you better visualize the effects of vanishing points on boxes in different positions, especially when you don't have those VPs as guides (like in the organic perspectives exercise).
In rough perspective, two things:
• Make sure your horizontal and vertical lines are truly horizontal and verticle. I think this is a bigger issue with horizontal lines, but sometimes they seem to tilt slightly toward your vanishing point.
• I see that you've drawn over a couple of lines in this exercise. No matter how inaccurate a line may be, just keep a line as if it were correct and move on. To mitigate inaccuracies, remember to ghost your lines and draw them confidently. This is also something I see throughout the rest of your box exercises.
On rotated boxes: good job on adding nicely placed line weight! Just keep in mind that as you rotate boxes, their vanishing points should be moving too. In a couple of your boxes, it seems like your vanishing points are not consistent with the angle of your box. Sometimes, two lines are diverging where they should converge, and sometimes a box's vanishing point seems to be at the same place as a box which is rotated at a different angle.
On organic perspective, make sure your boxes are actually rotating! This gets better from your first frame, where all of your boxes seem to be in the same position, but as you keep going with the exercise, I think all of your boxes fall into one of two categories: facing up or facing down. This is especially apparent in your last box. Make sure they're not only getting smaller as they go down the line, but also rotating. Experiment with how drawing your initial "y" at different angles results in differently angled box.
Next Steps:
Though you should probably continue doing the ellipses in ghosted planes exercise as a warm-up, not only for practicing lines, but also for practicing drawing through ellipses, I think you can probably move on to the 250 box challenge. That's a really good way to practice varying the rotation of your boxes and honing in your perspective skills.
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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