Liia

Hello!! First off, huge congrats on completing Lesson 1! Let's jump right in and get started!

Lines

Super Imposed Lines - You correctly prioritized a smooth straight line over accuracy, which caused a lot of fraying on the other side, but that's fine and expected. Good job trying out a variety of both long and short lines. One thing I do notice is that it looks like there is fraying on both sides of your curves. There should only be fraying on the further side of the line: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/superimposedlines/fraying Try taking an extra second to place the fineliner correctly before taking off!

Ghosted Lines - Looking great! The lines are smooth and straight and again you have a nice variety of long and short lines. The longer lines tend to curve slightly. This is super common, as your arm figures out the motion of how to draw from the shoulder. I think this will take care of itself with practice and it's nothing to worry about, just something to note. If not, you could try to intentionally slightly going the opposite way to compensate for the natural curve. This should help train your brain to feel what an actually straight line feels like.

Ghosted Planes - Your lines are super clean. Even though we built up complexity here, you thought through each stroke and gave each line the time it needed for a clean execution of the stroke. There are a few places where it looks like a line was drawn over again. Try to avoid redrawing a line, even though it didn't turn out the way you wanted. Doing this, and drawing in pen, is what helps train our brain to draw exactly what you wanted the first time. When we redo a mistake, the brain might think that it fixed the mistake and can draw with the same mistake the next time, but when we draw in pen with no retries, the brain registers that as a mistake and tries to correct it the next time. This helps train our brain to draw confident strokes, exactly how we wanted it to, the first time though and brings us to the next level. Okii, enough rambling. Moving on... lol

Ellipses

Table of Ellipses - Ellipses are drawn though twice, and fit fairly snugly to the borders of the table and against each other. You also have a nice variety of circles, ellipses, and different slants. The strokes do wobble slightly, but the ellipses are generally smooth and well shaped. Generally, the same principles for a straight lines applies here as well: ghost beforehand and prioritize a confident stroke over accuracy. Oh, but remember to draw through twice for ellipses, and not for our straight lines xD I think ellipses tend to be more challenging to execute than straight lines.

Ellipses in Planes - This exercise upped the challenge even more, but you got the ellipses to touch all four sides. The ellipses themselves have a tendency to be wobbly and misshapen. This might suggest that you could be worrying about the accuracy of the ellipse touching all four sides over a confident stroke. For this exercise, remember to prioritize the smooth confident stroke over accuracy. Just like with straight lines, there are different levels for this. It's okay if we try and miss the mark, but still end up with a confident stroke. Think of it like this: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ghostedlines/levels but try applying this concept to ellipses as well. It's perfectly fine for our ellipses to be on a different level from our lines as it's much more challenging to execute, just like curves are harder to superimpose than straight lines.

Funnels - Ellipses are drawn through twice, fit snugly to the sides and each other, and try to align to the central minor axis line. You also have some nice and smooth confidently draw ellipses here.

Boxes

Plotted Perspective - Nice, you used a ruler and your vertical lines are fairly perpendicular to the horizon line. Nice job keeping track of the lines while plotting back to the VPs. It looks like there might be a few places where the line was gone over again (which we try to avoid), but overall you have a good grasp on how this exercise works.

Rough Perspective - Nice work here! Lines look well ghosted and the execution is clean, you're working with one VP in each box, the front and back faces of your boxes are fairly rectangular, and you correctly applied line extensions.

Rotated Boxes - Good job completing this notoriously difficult exercise. You followed the core steps of the exercise, your gaps between boxes are fairly consistent, and you drew through the boxes (except for the veryyy corner boxes). You did get each and every box though, so good job! Sometimes submissions will be missing the very corner boxes. The boxes in the middle only show the tiniest bit of rotation, but I'll count that.

Organic Perspective - Your boxes here look extremely solid, well thought through and constructed. They go back in space gradually creating that believable illusion of space. One thing for when you get into the 250 box challenge, all these boxes tend to have the same orientation with minimal rotation. Try experimenting with different rotations, so you don't end up having to practice the same box 250 times. Here is something to help with that https://imgur.com/Kqg6uMX A quick tip is to change up the angles and kind of Y shape you use to form the box, mostly what you don't want is to reuse the same Y shape for your boxes.

Alright, and that's a wrap! Overall this is a really solid submission. I'm going to mark this lesson as complete and move you on to the 250 box challenge. Let me know if you have any questions about anything, or if I could explain something better, and congrats on completing lesson 1!

That made my day, tyy :D

Aww, ty! Loved your coconut too!

:0000 you're the one with the blue jay right? Birds are great :D and ty!

Thank you for taking the time to critique! I really appreciate the specific pointers you gave for different insects, and especially for the organic forms, as that is one exercise I've puzzled over. Thank you!

Have fun with boxes! You've started out strong :)

Hii there! Congrats on completing Lesson 1! I'm going to go ahead and critique your work today, let's get started :)

Lines

Super Imposed Lines - We have a nice start here with these lines. The strokes start at the same place, and its good to see you experiment with both long and short lines and curved lines. The only little thing I can say is that the lines have a small bit of wobbling to them https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/superimposedlines/wobbling You can see this improve already by the end of the lesson homework.

Ghosted Lines - Here the lines are drawn with fairly steady strokes. There is a bit of slight arcing to the lines occasionally. There are many different causes of this, but usually this is due to the small bits of compensation our arms make as it transitions between different pivot points as it straightens out while drawing from the shoulder, and is something that gets better with practice and built in muscle memory.

Ghosted Planes - Your planes are well constructed. You gave each line the time it needed without rushing. Each line looks well thought out and executed.

Ellipses

Table of Ellipses - Your ellipses are drawn through twice and fit snugly together. One critique I will suggest is that the ellipses could be drawn more confidently, giving them a smoother more even shape. Just as with lines, usually we try to prioritize a smooth and even shape (confidence) over having the ellipses fit snugly together (accuracy).

Ellipses in Planes - Here the ellipses are drawn through twice and touch all four sides of the plane. Here and there, a few of the ellipses do seem to be a bit squashed https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ellipsesinplanes/deformed Usually this is where we would try to prioritize confidence over accuracy.

Funnels - Ellipses are drawn through twice, touch the sides of the funnels and try to align to the central minor axis line. The top left and bottom right funnel do a particularly nice job of doing this!

Boxes

Plotted Perspective - Nice job keeping track of all those lines! You used a ruler and kept the vertical lines perpendicular to the horizon line. As expected, some of the back lines are tilted which we don't worry about at all. This exercise shows a good understanding of how two point perspective works.

Rough Perspective - For this exercise in one point perspective, we know that both the front faces and the back faces of each box will be made with rectangular boxes using straight vertical or horizontal lines. This knowledge can help us as we estimate where to place the lines for the back of our boxes as we ghost back towards the vanishing point https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/roughperspective/guessing. The boxes here start out with the back faces slanting, but by the end of the second page, this has pretty much been cleared up. Line extensions were applied correctly, and your lines show quite a bit of improvement from the beginning of this lesson.

Rotated Boxes - You followed the core steps of the exercise and completed this difficult exercise. The gaps are fairly nice and consistent, and you got all the boxes in and drew through them as well. One thing I'll note is that the boxes in the middle that go directly to the right are following the same vanishing point https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/rotatedboxes/notrotating, while the boxes that go to left show a bit of rotation that we're after.

Organic Perspective - These boxes are nicely done. They gradually get smaller which helps sell the illusion of space. One thing to note here is that some of your boxes tend to diverge a bit as they go back instead of slightly converging. This is something you'll dive more into in the 250 box challenge.

Congrats on completing Lesson 1, this lesson was well done and I'm going to go ahead and mark it as complete :) You'll need two agrees to get the badge for this lesson, but you can go right ahead and get started on the 250 Box Challenge while waiting for the agrees. And of course, feel free to ask if you have any questions or if there's anything I could explain better!

Great! For the plotted perspective, you used a ruler and the verticals are perpendicular to the horizon line, and you show that you have a good understanding of how two point perspective works :) Two or three of the back lines in the boxes are missing, but I'm not going to worry about that.

Alright, I'm going to mark this lesson as complete and move you on to the 250 Box Challenge! You will need two agrees on this critique to earn your badge, but in the meantime you can go right ahead and get started on the box challenge!

https://drawabox.com/community/submission/EF43RID5 critique here :)

Hello! I'm going to go ahead and critique your lesson for you, so let's get started :)

Lines

Super Imposed Lines - The strokes look nice and smooth and confident. You have a nice range of short and long strokes, and you also gave curved lines a go. I think you have a good grasp on the underlying concept of this exercise.

Ghosted Lines - Ghosted lines look pretty clean. The lines have a slight bit of wavering/arcing, but usually this improves with mileage. Usually this is just our arm getting used to the muscle memory of drawing from the shoulder.

Ghosted Planes - You gave each line the time it needed to build up these planes and did a good job constructing these. One thing to note from the first page, try not to redo a line, even if you think you might have made a mistake.

Ellipses

Table of Ellipses - The ellipses are smooth and evenly shaped. For the most part, you drew through them twice, and they mostly fit pretty snugly against the borders of the boxes and each other. There are a few here and there with gaps, or where it looks like the pen didn't quite make it all around twice, but overall, your work shows that you understand the underlying concepts.

Ellipses in Planes - I like the line confidence here. The ellipses are drawn through twice and touch all four corners of the planes. When you prioritize line confidence and even smooth shapes, as you do here, really all it takes is additional practice for the accuracy to come.

Funnels - Funnels are drawn through twice, and touch the sides of the funnels. They also align pretty well to the central minor axis line. I see where you marked a few ellipses where it didn't quite line up exactly, but I'm not worried about those (you'll get a lot more practice on that in lesson 2 - oh and warmups xD)

Boxes

Plotted Perspective - You used a ruler, and the verticals are perpendicular to the horizon line except some of the back corners, which is to be expected. The hatching was evenly done and not rushed. It looks like you have a good idea of how two point perspective works.

Rough Perspective - Here it starts out slightly slanted, but we see quite a bit of improvement over the two pages. Again, a quick reminder not to go over a line multiple times. Doing this tends to draw attention to the trouble spot instead of covering it up. Especially in the later lessons, in this course, once we make a line, we respect it and continue to build off of that. The front faces are fairly rectangular, however, some of the back faces slant a bit. Since we're drawing in one point perspective, we know that all the front and back faces will be rectangular and have either vertical or horizontal lines https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/roughperspective/guessing

Rotated Boxes - The gaps here are nice and consistent, the boxes show rotation, and you drew all the boxes in the set. The corners can be confusing, but you got all of them in, even the ones in the far corners.

Organic Perspective - The boxes are well constructed, you obviously put a lot of thought into them. If I'm being super picky, it's a bit hard for me to follow the line of boxes as they go back in space. Also, try not to redraw lines - we do use multiple lines to add line weight later on, but for these exercises, after we've planned and ghosted a line, once the pen touches the paper, its best to draw confidently and work with what we have.

Overall this was an extremely well done lesson, there wasn't much to critique as you show a solid understanding of the lesson material and followed it :) I'm going to mark this lesson as complete and move you on the to 250 box challenge. You do need two agrees to get the badge which usually takes a bit of time to get, but you can go ahead and get started on the box challenge right away. Congrats on completing lesson 1!