ryanexner

Cool, thanks! I'm very sorry for such a late reply. I wished I logged onto Drawabox sooner to give you feedback promptly. Anyways, we're here now!

• When you're extending lines, you generally go in the proper direction. However, the vertical axis of a box sometimes trips you up, and you extend in the diverging direction. A majority of boxes appear to be more 2 and 1 point perspective rather than 3. Bring those vanishing points closer in across the board.

• Your boxes' contour line weight is done well.

• Your lines do have a slight wobble to some. It's within reason. And that will likely improve if you stick with the drawing drills from lesson 1.

• Your boxes do feel solid and as though you are respecting the construction of a 3D form on paper.

Overall, you did solid work. I believe you have room to grow, and I think moving on to new challenges should help you do just that.

Hi Tiddlemonkey,

To start, putting notes on each box was a great idea.

Overall, I think they're good. You're converging to the correct direction. I can notice some slight wobble to various lines. Remember the lessons in confident mark making. I also think hatching on the boxes can help, at the very least in more practice from drawing at the shoulder.

And although your boxes show some miscalculated lines, I believe they're within reason for the challenge. You're consistently close.

Overall, I think you've got the purpose of the assignment, and I agree with your notes on lines converging or not.

Nice job!

Hi Yash,

• On your first few pages, you had lines that were looking parallel. That's an accomplishment in it's own right, but the assignment emphasizes the converging aspect of planes. Bring your vanishing points closer together to get converging lines.

• Avoid the flat rectangle kind of boxes as well. Push out the one side so you get a beefier box. In some boxes, you're extending the lines away from their convergence. Be aware of this as you extend the lines. When I did this challenge, my solution for tricky boxes was to line up my ruler with one line, then use my pen for another to verify I'm doing the convergence side.

• Your hatching is very nice and tidy. When your lines do converge, they're close and calculated well. Good job!

• Not sure what's going on with the upload, but I don't count 250 boxes. Did you forget to upload some pages? Or is this an in-progress post instead?

Quick note, if you can. Make the line extensions multiple colors. Sort of like 3D software, with red, green, and blue for specific axes. This helped me separate the planes upon review for my own assignment. No big deal though if it's not doable.

Hello!

Lines

• Superimposed lines were tight, and fraying on one end. Just like we want!

• Ghosted lines are good, although I can catch some arcing to them.

• Ghosted planes generally all have a wobble to their lines. Try speeding up your stroke, once you've ghosted the line a few times. That should help remove some wobble from the lines. And remember to spin your drawing surface to give you an optimal angle of attack for the line you'll draw.

Ellipses:

• Overall, they look good. The wobble in lines are still subtly present. By the time you reached the funnels, I could see improvement with a smoother circle.

Boxes:

• Plotted perspective looks great!

• Rough perspective is a good attempt. The lines all head roughly in the direction they're supposed to. Boxes follow a 1 point perspective.

• Rotated boxes look good. Your boxes on the outer rim don't quite rotate more than their neighbor. Your bottom right quadrant was starting to look great. Felt like you're getting the hang of it there.

• Organic perspective showed improvement. Some boxes at the start were off in perspective, but by the last attempt, the boxes were feeling much more solid.

Nice job overall!

Hello!

• Superimposed lines look good. There's a bit of fraying on your start point for the wavy & curved ones.

• Ghosted lines have subtle curve to some. You look consistent in proximity to your targets. Nice job!

• Ghosted planes look good, although there is some curving to the lines. Keep working on drawing from the shoulder.

• Ellipse tables show a lot more space between the ellipses. You really want to sit them in there nice and snug. Some circles are squaring at random points as well. Definitely rely on ghosting the circle prior to marking it. What's helped me is to slow down to ghost the circle and where it will hit, then when I feel I'm nailing the hits, I'll make those confident circles. You were improving as that exercise ended though.

• Ellipses in planes look good. You're coming up short on some axes, but you were getting better as the exercise progressed. Same with tightness of circle's lines.

• With funnels, same issues cropped up again. Hitting your extreme edges, and snugging up the ellipses.

• Plotted perspective was a good effort. Some boxes have arcing lines.

• Rough perspective is a good effort as well. I think you'll improve on these the more you're doing boxes/other exercises.

• Rotated boxes, along the outer edge, the boxes don't look rotated away from us. Better effort on your 2nd attempt at that upper right corner, but that same rotating issue persists.

• Organic perspective: Definitely seeing improvement over the pages. Your grasp of perspective is gaining!

Nice job overall, and great to see the improvement you made so quickly.

Thanks for the feedback Greg.44! You were spot on in the critique. Some places I didn't put dots in, however upon the last lesson I began to see how useful the dots are in these exercises.