Loopylizard

Hi Moddedstealth,

Starting with you superimposed lines, have you used a ruler to draw the original straight lines you are meant to be drawing on top of? It's really important for making sure you are actually drawing ypur lines straight. Your lines curve which could mean you aren't using your shoulder, or some people just have a natural habit af curving. You could try consciously curving in the other direction to correct it and eventually your brain should start associating that movement with straight lines. Also be careful of frayed lines at both ends. Take the time to place your pen at the right point every time.

Your Ghosted lines look nice and confident. Again, be careful to place you pen on the starting dot.

For your ghosted planes, sometimes you are missing one of the lines in the middle. The lines themselves are good. There are a couple of instances of wobble/curve where I think you may have subconsciously tried to ain fir the end point in the middle of the line. Remember confidence over accuracy. It doesn't matter if you miss. Accuracy will come with time.

On to your ellipses, when you are doing an exercise, concentrate on it. Don't draw extra ellipses out side of what you have been asked. You also appear to have extra pages of the table of ellipses and funnels. Don't grind. Instead add the exercises you have completed to a 10-15 warm up of 2-3 exercises. Make sure you are going around each ellipse 2 to 3 times and try to aim for the edges with you ghosting so you dont have floating ellipses. You have done a preety good job of keeping your ellipses aligned to the minor axis in the funnels.

Your plotted perspective is fine.

Your lines get a bit wobbly in rough perspective but that is usually the case as people can get overwhelmed actually using the lines to construct something that they forget to take the time with each individual line. Remember to ghost and draw each line with the care and confidence of you earlier exercises. In your first frame you have forgotten to add the extension lines and you don't need to extend beyond the horizon line. You have redone some lines to try and correct them. Try and avoid this. Once you have drawn a line leave it and move on, no matter how bad you think it is.

For your rotated boxes you haven't drawn through all your boxes. It's really important because this is your first introduction to rotating objects in 3d space relative to each other and the back lines give you a lot of information on how that works. Your lines look pretty good here and you hatching is neat. You have done a fairly good job with the rotation, just keep an eye on the backs of the boxes as sometimes you aren't rotating them as much as the front.

Your organic perspective is nice and lively with a good sense if depth. Remember not to correct lines. Your lines are mostly converging in the right direction so good job on this one

Before you move on I would like you to do one more page of superimposed lines using a ruler or straight edge to draw the first line, abd one more quadrant of rotated boxes, making sure to draw through them all. Other than that good job!

Yep, that's all five.

You've still got some fraying but the lines are already looking smoother so good job! Feel free to move on to ellipses.

You'll get more used to using your shoulder eventually. Build up the time you are drawing slowly, a couple of minutes a day perhaps.

Hi Vuith,

Starting with your superimposed lines, I notice there is some fraying at both ends. Try and take the time to place your pen at the right point whenever you start a line.

Your ghosted lines are nice and smooth but they curve q little sometimes. You can try a fix that by consciously curving in the other direction. It also looks like have have tried to correct a couple of lines. Don't go back and fix mistakes. Once a line is drawn leave it and carry on, even if it isn't right.

Your ghosted planes are good. Just be aware of the same things as above.

Your ellipses look pretty good too. The lines are smooth and confident. Some of them miss the edges but it looks like you have a good idea of where they should touch. You might benefit from lifting your pen a little earlier in the movement to avoid those hooks at the end of your lines. With your funnels try not to overlap the ellipses and try to keep them aligned with each other. You could also start increasing the degree more as you move outwards.

Plotted perspective is fine. Rough perspective remeber, don't redo lines. You have done a good job of keeping your lines converging in the right direction.

Your rotated boxes aren't quite rotating enough. You could try imagining a sphere in the centre that the inner planes are placed around. Also try adding hatching and line weight to make it easier to keep track of which lines go with which boxes. But it is a really good first go. Rotated boxes is deliberately hard and you aren't meant to get it right first time. It is there to introduce you to ideas of manipulating shapes in 3d space and you'll get a lot more practice at that with the 250 box challenge.

Your organic perspective is good. Again, don't repeat lines. Some of your lines are diverging but thats okay the 250 box challenge will help with that too. The composition is pretty good. Don't be afraid to push it further, bigger and smaller boxes and more overlap to really sell the illusion of depth.

Overall I think this is pretty good and I am happy for you to continue to the 250 box challenge.

Glad I could help :). Everyone struggles with ellipses. You'll get there. It's all about muscle memory and that takes a long time.

Hi Downtime,

Firstly on Imgur you can add more thab one image to one album. That way you only need to post one link.

You have also only posted one page of superimposed lines and one of ghosted planes. The exercises call for 2 pages of each.

Your lines start off quite wobbly. Remember to trust your ghosting. There is also some fraying at both ends. Make sure you are taking the time to place your pen in the correct place at the start of your lines.

Your lines for ghosted planes are much smoother so thats great. They do curve a little sometimes. It may help to try and consciously curve in the other direction.

It's a good start and you are moving in the right direction. Do the 2 missing pages, one of superimposed lines and one of ghosted planes keeping these things in mind and then move on. Good luck!

I agree with Loopkin.

On your rotated boxes you have quite a lot of parallel lines. As the boxes rotate the vp should move. Take look at this section again https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/rotation for when you do warm ups. As Loopkin says, this exercise is really hard and you aren't meant to get it right yet. It's there to introduce you to the concepts of 3d space and using lines you've already drawn to work out where the next one should go.

Good luck on your 250 boxes!

Your lines are looking quite wobbly Isalang. Remember to trust your ghosting and don't try to correct yourself once the pen is touching the paper. The important thing for now is smooth, confident lines, not accuracy. Your superimposed lines and ghosted lines only have fraying at one end which is great. Your ghosted planed however have lines that miss at both ends. Remember to take the time to place your pen in the right plave at the beginning of your lines.

Add these exercises to your 10-15 min warm up and carry on. Good luck!

Hi Cutemuzzle. Ellipses are hard. Your lines do start out wobbly but they get smoother and it looks like you have a good understanding of where they should touch the edges even if they miss sometimes. There are some sharp corners as well. The important thing is to trust your ghosting and not try to correct it once your pen is on the paper.

Don't redo this or any of the exercises unless specifically asked by someone critiquing your work. The point of the exercises isn't to get to perfect first time, it's to introduce you to the concepts and demonstrate that you aren't making any fundamental mistakes which I can't see you have here. Instead add the homeworks you have completed to a 10-15min warm up of 2-3 exercises. That way you can continue to improve them without grinding

No, move on to the next task. Just add this one to your 10-15 min warm up. That way you can improve without grinding. The point of the homework isn't to do it perfectly first time, just to introduce you to the concepts and get feedback on it. The warm up is where you spend the time to get good at it.

These look good Greenfriday. There's a little bit of a wobble in your lines so makes sure you are focusing on confidence, not accuracy. Other than that these look good. Add these exercises to your warm up and carry on. Good luck!