sluggydragon

Thanks!

Oh my gosh, this is so gross but so funny lmao 10/10

Hey Arthur! Thanks for being so understanding and sending over that last homework submission! One small note before we get started: with lesson 2 and on, definitely try to make sure you get your assignments up in order! I know imgur can be a bit tricky about that, but it definitely helps us get you your critique faster! Alright, let's get into it.

Lines

So, it's pretty clear to me that you're coming in with a good deal of experience. Your lines here are clean and thought out with very little wobble at all. Likewise, you're displaying a lot of patience and control in lining up your pen. I noticed you circled the frayed ends of your super-imposed lines - we don't worry about this. The more important part is that they're not frayed at the start - yours aren't, so I know you're taking your time with it. Nice work!

The same goes for your ghosted lines - they're looking confident, clean, and accurate. The next step from here will be for you to focus on honing that accuracy to the point where you're able to hit the end point without over or under shooting. Really strong work here, though.

Ellipses

Equally strong work here. Your ellipses are confident, evenly shaped, and well-controlled, sitting snugly in their alloted spaces. You're also keeping them light, not drawing through too many times. I would continue to work on tightening them up from here.

Nice work on your funnels as well. You do a decent job keeping them aligned with the minor axis but look out for that spacing. You want them to sit snugly against one another just like they're snugly sitting within their allotted space.

Rough Perspective

So your linework here remains quite nice, maintaining the quality you displayed in your ghosted and superimposed lines. However, you appear to be guessing when it comes to your perspective. When it comes to one point perspective, the key thing is to have your horizontals parallel to the horizon and your verticals perpendicular. This allows you to eliminate unnecessary guesswork and focus on your depth lines. At the moment, your boxes are slanting quite a lot pulling them out of perspective - this is just a rule of thumb to keep in mind when working with this perspective.

Rotated Boxes

So I do need to tag you on this one pretty hard, haha. Under drawings are not permitted in the directions here nor in the box challenge, so keep that in mind as you're going forward. Likewise, I want to encourage you to complete exercises to the best of your current ability - you have two incomplete attempts here and both have promise! I think it's important to ask why you felt the need to submit them incomplete; for a lot of students it is a perfectionist streak which is completely understandable, as we all have it to some degree. However, a core value of Drawabox is to work to overcome that kind of fear and allow yourself to toss things at the wall until they stick. Failing forward is very important here.

In this case, had you continued, I believed you would have achieved a pretty decent rotation across both examples of this exercise. One good rule of thumb is to keep the gaps between each box consistently sized, again to avoid unnecessary guesswork. Similarly, you're encouraged to draw through your boxes. You did so in the underdrawing for one attempt, but didn't seem to follow through with your second pass.

Anyhow, consider tackling this challenge again at a later date! It is a good milestone in terms of progress when it comes to understanding of 3D form on a 2D plane and patience.

Organic Perspective

Really strong work here - your line work remains consistent, although this is a good example of where accuracy can help maintain the illusion of 3D form. When you overshoot your end points, this does tend to weaken the illusion. Your converging sets of parallel lines are looking pretty solid, which is great! There are a few that could use improvement here and there but that's nothing the 250 box challenge can't help with!

Oh no! Haha, oh my gosh, don't worry about it. That's actually very much okay! The fact is that you realized it and kept pushing through, which is one of the core parts of this challenge. I can see where the confusion comes from. The lines are parallel by virtue of this box being a cubic form, but not from our vantage point. If you were to view it straight on, they would be parallel. However, from our vantage point, with foreshortening, they will converge towards a vanishing point and that's a part of the illusion you'll start to internalize as you go forward.

Really nice work here though! Although you did start it out without foreshortening, your line work saw a lot of love and I can see by the end that your lines are straight, confident, and well-thought out. As for your convergences, they are honestly very nice. They consistently and evenly move towards the vanishing point and your boxes look very solid. Really nice work here!

As you go on, I recommend practicing with varying degrees of foreshortening. It's just a nice tool to have in your back pocket!

Anyway, so, I'm going to link a few extra notes - we provide them at the end of every challenge as a matter of course. They go over the angle of each set of parallel lines as they approach the box and how keeping an eye on this relationship could improve your convergences. Also, considering each line in relation to the lines with which it shares a vanishing point rather than the lines with which it shares a plane or a corner could do the same.

Hey there Teling! Congrats on finishing the entire challenge! One of the things I love about your submission is that I can see such marked improvement from the first page to the last, it's so clear that this challenge did a lot of good for you.

First, your line work! It's a bit shakey at first, with a few curves, a few wobbles, but as you progress, it's clear that you really get the hang of it, either by using the correct pivot or the ghosting technique, or both! By the end, your lines are confident, clean, and straight. Really nice work there!

As for your convergences - this is really good work. At the start, things are pretty shaky - there are a few places where you don't have a lot of foreshortening or the correction lines diverge instead of converge. It doesn't seem as though you fully understand the box as a 3D form on a 2D plane. However, as you progress, that really seems to click and by the end, your boxes look like solid forms and your correction lines start to converge consistently. I really love seeing that kind of learning, really excellent work!

I'm going to link a few extra notes - we provide them at the end of every challenge as a matter of course. They go over the angle of each set of parallel lines as they approach the box and how keeping an eye on this relationship could improve your convergences. Also, considering each line in relation to the lines with which it shares a vanishing point rather than the lines with which it shares a plane or a corner could do the same.

I can certainly answer 'yes' to trusting your ghosting as you continue to hone your ghosting technique, but I'm not sure about ways to hold your pose! You want to make sure your shoulder is free to use as a pivot, and for the rest, just make sure you're comfortable. One of the big things that gets people in this community is carpal tunnel or something else related because of bad posture, so just take care of yourself while performing the techniques as best you can.

... Okay, I then went back and reread your question, but I'm keeping the previous part because it's important! No, I don't think it's a bad habit. If you get a view that's fine, I think that's natural, so long as you're not holding an uncomfortable pose for extended periods.

Cheers!

Hey there Blixxen!! Congratulations on getting through the entire challenge!

So, really strong work with your line work. It is fairly neat and readable, with just a little bit of a wobble at the start but this only improves over the course of the challenge. Your accuracy and confidence clearly benefit a lot from the mileage so nice work!

As for your convergences - these also show a great deal of improvement. At the start, you tend to have very shallow foreshortening, or the lines even diverge instead of converge. This does show a good amount of improvement towards the end which is great. The correction lines start consistently moving towards their shared vanishing points. Good job here!

I'm going to link a few extra notes - we provide them at the end of every challenge as a matter of course. They go over the angle of each set of parallel lines as they approach the box and how keeping an eye on this relationship could improve your convergences. Also, considering each line in relation to the lines with which it shares a vanishing point rather than the lines with which it shares a plane or a corner could do the same.

Hey there, Jon. Welcome to Drawabox! Yeah, perfectionism is one of those really sneaky hurdles, but I'm proud of you for pushing through and finishing as well! You didn't specify in your comment, so I feel compelled to ask: are you rotating your page with each horizontal and vertical? That may help you apply those straight lines at any angle. Anyway, let's get on to the submission!

Lines

Really decent start here! Your lines appear to maintain a consistent trajectory, staying pretty straight and there is really only fraying on the far end, which means you're taking the time to line up your pen at the start. There is a little bit of wobbling in your curved super imposed lines - it helps to know that most wobbles are caused by your brain getting in the way of your muscle memory. You can overcome this with deliberate use of the ghosting method - this technique allows you to build the muscle memory, but remember to commit once you put your pen to the paper.

Your ghosted lines look great Straight, confident, and fairly accurate. From here, I would recommend that you start working on your accuracy. You can use the ghosting technique to do that as well. The aim is to consistently hit the end point without over- or under-shooting.

Ellipses

So these are a little rougher than your lines, but by the time you get to the ellipses in planes, you show significant improvement, which is great to see. Continued practice and use of the ghosting technique will help you get these ellipses even and confident. You also display a good deal of control, making sure the ellipses are sitting snugly inside their alloted space.

Really decent work with your funnels. You keep them pretty well aligned and bisected by the minor axis.

Rough Perspective

This is pretty strong work here! So for this particular exercise, you want to keep your eye on the horizon line: make sure your verticals are perpendicular while your horizontals are parallel. This ensures that your boxes are firmly in one point perspective and helps eliminte unnecessary guesswork. As for the rest, your line work looks very strong - straight, clean lines. Very nice work here!

Rotated Boxes

So, this is a pretty strong attempt at this challenge. Your line work continues to impress, although I can see that you struggled a little bit with getting a proper rotation around the major axes. That's fine, as your sense of 3D continues to develop, this sort of thing will click. Another good thing to keep in mind for this part is to keep the gaps between each box consistently sized. That way you can also eliminate unnecessary guesswork at this part. Other than that, good start!

Organic Perspective

This is also a good start! Good line work, although there is room for improvement with getting sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards shared vanishing points. That's nothing the 250 box challenge won't help with! Overall, strong work!

Hey there Ragatoni! Yeah, that's totally fine - that's how we usually get the ghosted planes exercise. :) Anyway, welcome to Drawabox! I'm sluggy, I'll be going over your submission today.

Lines

Strong start here! Your lines look pretty straight and I can see that there is only fraying on the far end, telling me you're taking the time too line up your pen. Likewise, you appear to be executing each line without hesitation as there is very little wobble in your super-imposed or ghosted lines. Since you seem to be pretty comfortable with the flow, I would recommend that you go ahead and use the ghosting technique to begin working on your accuracy. The eventual goal is to have a clean confident line that hits the end point you set down without over or undershooting.

Ellipses

Nice work with your ellipses! It looks like you're drawing through them the right number of times. Likewise, your ellipses each have a confident even shape and are fitting nicely into their alloted spaces, so I would say you have a good amount of control over each mark. The same goes for your ellipses in planes. Nice work on that!

Pretty decent work with your funnels. You do a good job keeping the ellipses aligned with the minor axis, which is great to see. That will come in handy with later lessons.

Rough Perspective

Good work on this exercise! You keep your horizontals parallel with the horizon while your verticals are perpendicular, which helps eliminate unnecessary guesswork in one point perspective. Likewise, your lines look nice and neat, telling me you're properly applying the ghosting technique. That's often a struggle when it comes to applying the technique to forms, so nice work!

Rotated Boxes

Really strong work with this challenge. You get a good amount of rotation on each of the minor axes and you're drawing through your boxes. I think one thing that would've helped you would've been to keep the gaps between each box narrow and consistent - that would help with guesswork again, by measuring each box against the last. Nice work with the hatchmarks, I can see that you followed the faces of each box.

Organic Perspective

Really good start here. Your linework remains of consistent in quality, although there's room for improvement with getting sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards a shared vanishing point. That's fine though, that's nothing the 250 box challenge can't help with.

Hey there! Could you please upload the superimposed lines? That's the only one that's missing here. Once we get that into the album, I'll be able to go over everything ASAP! :)