Hi Rob, thank you so much for the constructive feedback and encouragement. I'll be sure to review these links and keep in mind the things you mentioned about my boxes and ellipses while doing my warmups. This feedback was incredibly helpful and as someone almost brand new to drawing I'm learning a lot already. thanks again!
Grats on getting started!
The two most glaring things were that you didn't cover much of the second page for the funnel exercise and drew a few hovering ellipses in part of the empty space, and that you redid lines you didn't like many times throughout the exercises, sometimes the same line over and over again.
Next Steps:
I would say redo Rotated Boxes and Organic Perspective because there's a lot of scratchiness. plot and ghost your lines, then hit them once and stick with what you get. Draw boxes as part of your warmups focusing on one-and-done lines and confidence. And a complete second page of funnels with ellipses, no floating ones, and then post here when complete :)
Like a lot of us the lines started wobbly and tightened up in later exercises, but I noticed a few times where you redrew a line you messed up, it can be hard but try to remember not to do that going forward.
The rotated boxes exercise is missing almost the entire right side, though.
Next Steps:
Do a complete rotated boxes exercise and post it when it's done :)
Your line confidence is pretty solid, and usually accurate, but it looks like you're drawing through some of your ellipses more than the 2-3 times in the guidelines for those.
You also have some unfinished boxes in the organic perspective exercise and a couple of times redid a line you messed up on, it's hard sometimes but try to avoid redoing any lines.
Also looks like your pen either died a couple of times throughout some of the exercises or lack of consistent pressure mostly when it came to ellipses.
Next Steps:
You should move on to the box challenge while incorporating ellipses into your warmups if you're not already doing that, focusing on pressure and tightening pathing, drawn through 2-3 times.
Rapid Viz is a book after mine own heart, and exists very much in the same spirit of the concepts that inspired Drawabox. It's all about getting your ideas down on the page, doing so quickly and clearly, so as to communicate them to others. These skills are not only critical in design, but also in the myriad of technical and STEM fields that can really benefit from having someone who can facilitate getting one person's idea across to another.
Where Drawabox focuses on developing underlying spatial thinking skills to help facilitate that kind of communication, Rapid Viz's quick and dirty approach can help students loosen up and really move past the irrelevant matters of being "perfect" or "correct", and focus instead on getting your ideas from your brain, onto the page, and into someone else's brain as efficiently as possible.
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