theLittleLaurel

Good job wit the lesson! Hopefully my critique's not coming too late to be useful.

My biggest advice would be to focus on your markmaking. Try to stay loose and draw from your shoulder; it'll really help straighten out those lines and make them more confident. Don't try to overcorrect a mark you've made.

I'd recommend drawing on a bigger scale than you are now, just to help develop that looseness and control from the shoulder. I think you're still drawing from your wrist a lot.

Try to be patient with each line before you put it down, ghosting it just above the paper to get an idea of how it will be placed.

Keep up the good work!

Hey, congrats with finishing lesson 1!

I think the biggest feedback I can give is to be more confident in your lines. Makes strokes confidently, and if you make a mistake, don't get nervous and start chicken scratching for the answer. Overshooting lines can be frustrating, but I believe that will get better with time, as well as diligent thought.

Your ellipses don't always hold their course, and I think that's a matter of getting warmed up and drawing loosely from your shoulder. The funnel ellipses had a tendency to tilt left(?) a bit, so just be aware of that.

You've got a pretty good understanding of perspective, which may be part of the reason why you try to correct your 'incorrect' lines. I think this will get better over time, and some conscious understanding and acceptance of your lines would go a long ways.

Keep up the good work! :)

Good job with the lesson!

The biggest feedback I can give is to focus on your line quality. I'm under the impression that you draw hesitantly and with tension, which is what results in your lines wobbling. Try to feel each line as a single motion, a single stroke (I tend to think of it as feeling similar to swiping on a tablet screen). Using your shoulder also helps with this.

Your ellipses would benefit the most from this, they feel rather shaky and tense. Let your arm be loose, and practice ghosting in the lines.

For your boxes, try to be aware of the vanishing points for each set of lines. They will feel more properly placed in perspective if you do so.

Keep up the good work!

Hey, congrats! This critique is coming a bit late, looking at the submission time, but I hope I can still provide some help.

You have a tendency to overshoot or retrace some of your lines, particularly on the organic boxes exercise. I have this problem too, just be conscious of it and try to be patient when putting down each line.

Your ellipses feel very nice and natural, but sometimes they can be a little too loose. This'll just take some practice, and should naturally get better over time.

Try not to be too aggressive with the foreshortening of the boxes and think about where and how far away each vanishing point is, it'll help make your boxes feel more natural.

Great job, and keep up the good work!

Hey, well done with this lesson!

Sounds like you're a little burnt out from drawing boxes nonstop; I don't know if this will help, but remember the 50% rule and feel free to draw the things you like. Even if it seems boxes don't apply to those things you want to draw, improved line quality and understanding boxes in 3D can help you draw better in ways you might not realize.

As for more direct feedback, you have incredible line quality on your straight lines. Your lines on ellipses sometimes wobble a bit, but maybe you just need to warmup and get the feel for that motion in your shoulder. And as much as you seem to hate drawing boxes, you're pretty hecking good at drawing them. Again, if you felt burnt out, you shouldn't feel the need to rush or grind through these exercises. They are boring, but they're not meant to make you hate drawing.

Keep up the good work!

Hey, great job with the lesson! I'll try my best at this feedback thing, but I'm new to this too.

I might be wrong, but I feel like you might hold your pen with some tension. Your lines tend to wobble a bit, and your line weight can get bit heavy. Just be conscious of staying relaxed, particuarly in your wrist and fingers, and feeling the weight of your arm from your shoulder.

Your funnel ellipses were very well done, I think they just have an ever so slight tendency to lean to the right.

With your organic boxes, try to be aware of each line's vanishing point before you draw it, and understand which direction lines converge in.

Keep up the good work!

Good job on the lesson! I'll try my best to give clear feedback.

Your ghosted lines are very good, they just have a tendency to arc a bit, so watch out for that.

Your ellipses have a tendency to lean to one side a bit, so just be aware of that and adjust accordingly when you draw them.

Try to be more conscious of the vanishing points of your organic boxes. The directions of some of the lines don't make sense on some of them, so just be aware of that.

Overall, great job! Keep up the good work.

Great job! I'm a beginner with Drawabox as well, so I apologize if my remarks are not the most helpful or well-informed, but I'll do my best.

Overall, I'd say you have very good line quality. Your strokes are straight and confident, which I though really shined through on the ghosted planes exercise. I'd say you struggled a bit more with ellipses, but I think that was just a matter of warming up and getting used to the motion with your shoulder and elbow.

I don't know if it's because you took a break, but on the later exercises in the lesson where you draw boxes in 3D, your lines lose a bit of confidence and purposeful direction. Try not to be too aggressive with your foreshortening, it tends to distort your boxes a bit too much. I'd also try to think about the box before you draw one of its lines. It seems to me you sometimes focus on a line too much and forget how it fits in with the rest of the box.

Hopefully I wasn't too vague or difficult to understand. Keep up the good work!