serpenthater

Hi, thanks for the critique! Yeah I noticed myself at the very end that I was ignoring a lot of the shape, I mostly did it that wasy due believing that it was supposed to be skin? Loose skin hanging from the major forms, like is done in the wolf, otter, tiger and white pelican demo, is kinda 2D not to the extend I did it but its still there. Assume its just a kink that came along with the demos being old and out of date. And with the honey badger demo, how would one draw the loose skin that's on top of it without making the shape seem 2D?

Oh and here are the revisions, thanks in advance! Was struggling lots with figuring out how to put the proper shape on the spots the leg sphere meets the body or the leg meat meets the leg sausage.

https://imgur.com/a/serpenthater-lesson-5-revisions-x3rr8AF

Hey hey, probably best to try start over with the whole course. Some things have been tweaked over the years and lesson 0, lesson 1 and the 50% rule are fundamentals that the course is built upon. The exercises from lesson 1 are recommended to be done daily as warm ups for that reason. So if you feel like you have gone out of shape, I'd say to re-do lesson 1 and give lesson 0 a quick re-read. Worst that can happen is that ya get better in the fundamentals which is never a bad thing, even though it might be a bit boring at times. Still whatever ya do wish ya the best of luck!

Hey hey! And congrats on completing lesson one. Name’s Ana not that it matters but me thought it be fun to know. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end, and the lines don't wobble; they are smooth and confident!

Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else.

Your ellipses in funnels are looking fine. I'm not seeing any real issues here. One thing you could have done with these is start with a narrower degree ellipse in the center and then widen the degrees of the ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel. Please check the example here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3 This helps with practicing different degrees of ellipses. Your ellipses are off to a great start but there's still room for improvement so keep practicing them during your warmups.

The plotted perspective looks good, not much I can comment on. You understood the assignment and did it well! Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. It's great that you are keeping up with the confident linework on these, they don't wobble and dont arch. However I did notice that you don't always draw a line through both of the dots you placed, which does not happen in the previous exercises of the ghosted planes and lines. Which might be a sign of being a bit “afraid” of fully committing to the line and stop earlier than intended. Nothing too major as you still do it confidently but it is something to keep in mind, the level 2 segment of this video might help https://youtu.be/o1HAVipdsZM?si=8iggFv5vim9-fOUm

You are also doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. Most of the lines were quite close to the vanishing point and that will only improve with time. One thing that can help you a bit when doing a one point perspective exercise like this is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be perpendicular(straight up and down in this case) to the horizon line. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.

Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty well. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/21/notrotating While the rotations here aren't perfect this was a good effort overall. The more you draw and develop your spatial thinking ability the easier these rotations are to handle. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved.

Your organic perspective exercises look good! You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. Still that minor issue of the lines not always going through the dots shows up again but in a lesser frequency than with the plotted perspective exercise. So while it is something to keep in mind great that it showed up less in an exercise that most would consider more anxiety inducing than the plotted perspective. Good increase in confidence! Your box constructions are improving as you work through this exercise and I can see you are developing a good sense for how box lines converge to vps. There are still some wonky convergences here and there so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.

Overall this was a really solid submission that showed a good deal of growth. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along nicely. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work!