7:41 PM, Tuesday June 10th 2025
Hi Ritik, congrats on completing the first lesson! I'm Roadkill and here to give community critique on your submission :)
Lines
Your superimposed lines look good - confident and lines staying close together. There are a bit fraying at the end but this is expected so don't fret too much. Your ghosted lines look confident without too much wavering and not much arching. You could use longer lines though - add them in as you incorporate this exercise as part of your warm up routine. Your lines do start to arch a little as you move on to ghosted planes - don't rush lines to finish the exercise but show as much diligence as you showed for ghosted lines. Keep using that shoulder for that straight confident lines. Your line quality already improved from superimposed to ghost planes!
Ellipses
In table of ellipses, your ellipses are mostly touching the borders and their neighbors pretty snug. You are also able to draw them with angles consistently and a variety of them, so great job! But do aim to have them touch the borders. For ellipses in planes, some of your ellipses are not touching all four sides of the planes. It may be beneficial for you to plot all four points where your ellipses are touching the planes and do ghosting based on them. But great variety of ellipses drawn with confidence!
Your ellipses fit snugly against the funnels and are generally aligned to the central minor axis line. Be sure to make them snug against their neighbors too. Keep drawing them with confidence and they will get better with practice. Optionally, you can try to get the degree of your ellipses to increase as you move outwards from the center when you do this exercise as a warm up.
Boxes
The plotted perspective looks good and you've clearly demonstrated you understand how to make boxes in 2 point perspectives. In this perspective, the vertical lines will always be perpendicular to the horizon. Of course there may be slight misalignment but try to draw vertical lines as perpendicular as possible.
Rough perspective is great as well. However I'm also seeing some minor wobbling - be sure to employ ghost method in all your free hand lines and to use your shoulder for that confident and straight line.
Rotated box is a notoriously difficult exercise that stumps many students. You did a good job showing the rotation of the boxes overall, with all boxes converging to different vanishing points. Try to keep the gaps between boxes are tight and consistent as well. This will help with deducing the position of adjacent boxes.
In organic perspective, your lines are generally converging as they move farther away from the viewer which is great. There are a couple of them with parallel or divergence that results in skewed boxes but you did a pretty solid job overall.
Overall
Regarding hatching, it is optional but when you do, be sure to use ghost method and aim to fill a side of box consistent spacing. It will make your box look cleaner and well, more practice never hurts!
One last thing is to not go over your lines again or redraw when you make mistakes. It is generally against the concept of executing planned and confident lines through out the course. Unless it's waaaaay off the trajectory, accept the mistake and trust your muscle memory that it will get better with time and practice.
Anyways, you did a good job and demonstrated that you've grasped the concepts in Lesson 1 so I'm marking it as complete. Add these exercises as a part of your regular warm up routine for all DaB related works. To get the badge of completion or the role in discord, you need 2 agrees from other members but that is not necessary to move onto the next stage. On to the box challenge you go!
Next Steps:
Move onto the 250 box challenge!
Do the lesson 1 exercises as your warm up regularly.
Don't forget about your 50% rule art.







