joxmarf

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    8:00 PM, Thursday February 6th 2025

    thank you so much!!your first suggestion is so helpful

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    2:45 PM, Tuesday February 4th 2025

    Hello! I'm Joxmarf and I will be reviewing your Lesson 1

    Superimposed Lines

    There's some fraying. Remember to place your pen mindfully before doing the stroke.

    Ghosted Lines

    Well done.

    Ghosted Planes and Ellipses

    Woah, this one is pretty good! Your ellipses are tight and drawn with confidence.

    Table of Ellipses

    Some of your ellipses aren't complete. I assume you are using ballpoint for these? Don't do the strokes light enough for the marks to not appear on the page.

    Funnels

    Well done.

    Plotted Perspective

    Well done.

    Rough Perspective

    Be careful with you line extensions. Some line extensions lean to no place at all. Remember the line extensions come from the lines of the boxes converging towards the vanishing point.

    Rotated boxes

    Well done.

    Organic Perspective

    Your boxes have a dramatic foreshortening. Having a shallow foreshortening would help keep the sense of scale consistent. Also, be mindful with the line weight. You add heavy line weight on some of the boxes which are farther away. It breaks the sense of 3D space.

    Next Steps:

    Incorporate these exercises on your warmup pool. Move onto the 250 box challenge.

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    2:26 PM, Tuesday February 4th 2025

    Hello! I'm Joxmarf and I will be reviewing your Lesson 1

    Superimposed Lines

    There's fraying. Remember to place your pen mindfully before doing the stroke.

    Ghosted Lines

    These are good. Some of your lines arc a bit. If you arer drawing from your shoulder, you could intentionally try to arc your stroke a bit in the opposite direction to counteract the natural curve.

    Ghosted Planes and Ellipses

    While drawn with confidence, which is great, you draw through your ellipses more than two times, which makes it sloopy. Try to stick to two or three times only. Also, you didn’t complete your planes. The next time you do this exercise for your warmups, remember there should be lines that reach the middle of the sides.

    Table of Ellipses

    Your ellipses are not as tight and evenly shaped as they could be. Remember to apply the ghosting method mindfully. Every mark should be considered carefully before being made. Also, you draw only once through some of your ellipses.

    Funnels

    It is difficult, but remember to do your best to align them to the minor axis. Also, there shouldn’t be space between them.

    Plotted Perspective

    Well done.

    Rough Perspective

    Well done. The line extensions are done with pencil, which makes it difficult to read. Also, do the line extensions only once. Don’t give it several passes.

    Rotated boxes

    Well done.

    Organic Perspective

    The foreshortening of your many boxes is very dramatic. A shallow foreshortening would help keep the sense of scale consistent.

    Next Steps:

    Good job. Move onto the 250 box challenge.

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    8:54 PM, Monday February 3rd 2025

    Hello! Thank you. https://imgur.com/a/ApxMzEJ here it is ????

    8:47 PM, Monday February 3rd 2025

    welcome! don’t redo, as that would be grinding, just add them to your warmup pool and move on :)

    9:55 PM, Friday January 31st 2025

    of course! happy to help :D

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    9:35 PM, Friday January 31st 2025

    Hello, I'm Joxmarf and I will be reviewing your lesson.

    First, huge congrats! The box challenge requires discipline, patience and consistency. Its repetitive nature can make it a bit of a drag, so good job for pushing through (Also, random but loved the happy face on the 222 box).

    General Observations

    Your lines mostly converge. You were clearly mindful of avoiding parallel or divergent lines. It still happened sometimes, of course, but I could really see the improvement as the challenge went on. Regarding the line extensions, they are done on the right direction, going away from the central point of the Y. You forgot to do the extensions for some of the boxes. Remember this is an important part of the exercise, so when you do it again for warmups do not skip it.

    I would say that you didn't vary your boxes as much as you could have. The orientation of your boxes does vary, but you didn't experiment much with the length of the Y line. In your warmups, you could do boxes with the shape of cubes, bricks, rods, books, etc. Experiment!

    Regarding your hatching, they are good, but remember to ghost before making a line on the page, thinking of where the line starts and where it ends. Many of you hatching lines don't reach the other side of the plane.

    In some lines, you seem to have given it a second pass. I don't know if it was to hide some wobbliness or to add lineweight. If it's for the former, best to avoid it.

    Overall, a very solid submission.

    Good luck with the rest!

    Next Steps:

    Incorporate this exercise to your warmup pool. Move onto lesson 2.

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    9:15 PM, Friday January 31st 2025

    Hello, I'm Joxmarf and I will be reviewing your lesson.

    First, huge congrats! The box challenge requires discipline, patience and consistency. Its repetitive nature can make it a bit of a drag, so good job for pushing through :D.

    **General Observations

    Your lines mostly converge. You were clearly mindful of avoiding parallel or divergent lines. Regarding the line extensions, they are done on the right direction, going away from the central point of the Y. I would say that you didn't vary your boxes as much as you could have. The orientation of your boxes are similar through the entire exercise. Remember you can play with the length of the Y lines, as well as experiment with the angles (as long as they are always over 90 degrees). In your warmups, you could do boxes with the shape of cubes, bricks, rods, books, etc. Experiment!

    Regarding your hatching, they are good, but remember to ghost before making a line on the page, thinking of where the line starts and where it ends. Many of you hatching lines cross the plane. Also, in many of your boxes you retraced your lines several times with what seems to be a blue pen. Avoid this. If they were meant to add lineweight, remember to do the superimposed line with ghosting, always prioritising confidence over accuracy.

    Lastly, I recommend giving each box its own space. Many of your boxes are overlapping.

    Good luck with the rest!

    Next Steps:

    Incorporate this exercise on your warmup pool. Move onto Lesson 2

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    2:41 PM, Friday January 31st 2025

    Hello! I'm Joxmarf and I will be reviewing your Lesson 1

    Superimposed Lines

    There's some fraying. Remember to place your pen mindfully before doing the stroke.

    Ghosted Lines

    These are good. Some of your lines arc a bit. If you arer drawing from your shoulder, you could intentionally try to arc your stroke a bit in the opposite direction to counteract the natural curve.

    Ghosted Planes and Ellipses

    Some of your ellipses were only drawn through once. Your ellipses seem confidently drawn.

    Table of Ellipses

    Your ellipses are tight, but many of them aren't touching each other. Remember that you must avoid to keep them 'floating'.

    Funnels

    It is difficult, but remember to do your best to align them to the minor axis.

    Plotted Perspective

    Well done.

    Rough Perspective

    Well done.

    Rotated boxes

    You missed some boxes. Remember that, while the boxes in the corners are challenging, they are important and fear of 'ruining' the page will hold you back. Complete the exercise before moving onto the 250 challenge.

    Organic Perspective

    Well done. Your boxes have a shallow foreshortening, which helps keep the sense of scale consistent.

    Next Steps:

    FInish the rotated boxes exercise before moving onto the 250 box challenge. Add these exercises to your warmup pool. Good job!

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    2:24 PM, Friday January 31st 2025

    Hello! I'm Joxmarf and I will be reviewing your Lesson 1 :)

    Superimposed Lines

    I notice that many of your lines have fraying. Drawabox encourages to think of every mark we put on the page. That begins with thinking where to place the pen. Also, some of your lines wobble. Remember to, when you start executing the stroke, focus only on the end point and draw confidently enough not to allow your brain to steer the stroke.

    Ghosted Lines

    Once again, your marks wobble. Remember not to focus on accuracy, but on the confidence of your marks. Time and practice will make your lines more accurate. Also, once again, some of your lines arc. Some of your marks wobble. Remember not to focus on accuracy, but on the confidence of your marks. Time and practice will make your lines more accurate, but remember that in this course you should prioritise accuracy. Also, remember to consider from which pivot you are drawing from. We should be drawing from the shoulder.

    Ghosted Planes

    Many of your lines wobble. Remember to ghost and draw from your shoulder.

    Table of Ellipses

    I see you are drawing through your ellipses two full times, which is great. However, many of them are not evenly shaped. There could be many reasons for this. Remember to ghost mindfully and thoroughly before making the mark with confidence. Overall, these are well done.

    Ellipses in Planes

    Your ellipses are drawn with confidence and most of them are touching all the 4 edges of the plane. It seems that you are drawing through your ellipse more than two full times. Try to stick to only 2-3 times.

    Funnels

    It is quite difficult, but I would like to note that some of your ellipses are not aligned to the central minor axis line. Also, some ellipses are not touching each other. It seems that you are drawing through your ellipses more than two full times. Try to stick only to 2-3 times. Also, wobbling is still present.

    Plotted Perspective

    Well done.

    Rough Perspective

    Remember to always keep ghosting in mind. Good job, you are working with one vanishing point, as the exercise states.

    Rotated boxes

    Well done.

    Organic Perspective

    Well done.

    Overall, the common issue in all of the exercises is the wobbling. I recommend to reread the section in Lesson 1 in which Uncomfortable explains the ghosting method.

    Next Steps:

    Congrats! Include these on your warmups and move onto the Box Challenge.

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