wister808

Lines

Your lines are really good. Nothing to point out in them in particular.

Ellipses

Ellipses are good, there is few things I would like to talk about though. You seem to miss the amount of loops you make, one is too little, two is perfect, three is undesired but can happen, four is overkill. You seem to mostly make two loops, but you happen to make single loops, three loops or even four loops ocasionally. You need to remember to strike for making two loops, it is important habit to have for later lessons.

Perspective

Perspective is good, tho I have few objections to rotated boxes. First, you forgot to add hatching on the inside sides of boxes in box sphere, it is part of this exercise. Second, you made the box sphere too small and the whole drawing look small because of it, remember to use the whole page for every DaB exercise, pratice in big scale has huge impact on amount you learn, you can see your mistakes more clearly, you make more moves with your shoulder and you pratice drawing in big scale so small scale will be no problem.

I would advise making a hatching in rotatet boxes exercise, but it is up to you.

Overall great job, proud of you. You can go to 250 box challange, just rember about what I talked above.

Lines

Your lines overall look good, I would want to point out that sometimes your lines get wobbly, especially in rough perspective. I suppose you focused more on perspective than making good lines. Remember to do a one clean swoop, good linemaking is build upon teribble, BUT confident linemaking.

Ellipses

Your ellipses look okay, I have few problems with them. First, you are making too many loops. Two loops is perfect, three is undersired and four is an totall overkill. You happen to do three and even four loops, that results in a messy ellipses that you can't learn from. Second, your motion of making ellipse isn't fluid. There are sometimes sharp turns that cannot happen if the ellipse is made in once clean move from shoulder. I suppose you do it either slow or more from elbow and wrist than shoulder.

Perspective

Perspective is good, you will learn more about it in 250 box challange.

Overall great job, proud of you. You can go to 250 box challange, just rember about what I talked above.

You can absolutely draw short lines with elbow. The main point of focusing on using your shoulder for drawig is that pretty much everyone has a habit of not using it as they draw, because you learn to write using your wrist and sometimes elbow, so the shoulder is taken out of equation. If your lines does not suffer from drawing from elbow you can draw them with elbow as this gives more control over your hand movement.

Lines

Lines look really good, keep it up and you will be the master of them in no time.

Ellipses

Ellipses also look really good, you seemed to not make much of narrow ones though. It is understandable as they are the hardest, but I would recommend trying them out because you are doing great on the ones I've seen.

Perspective

Perspective looks great, I am sure you will master it in 250 box challange. One thing I would like to point out that in rotated boxes, you made the box sphere squarish and spaces in between boxes should be wider, but those are minor mistakes.

Overall great job, proud of you. You can go to 250 box challange, just rember about what I talked above.

Lines

Your lines overall look good, I would want to point out that sometimes your lines get wobbly. I suppose you focused more on perspective than making good lines. Remember to do a one clean swoop, good linemaking is build upon teribble, BUT confident linemaking.

Ellipses

Your ellipses look okay, but I can see quite a lot of wobble in them. This is the result of you doing it too slowy and not in one fluid motion, but slowing midway through to be sure you didn't mess it up. It is especially visible in ghosted planes. Your ellipses get squarish, because you focused on hitting the edges of the box instead of making a nice ellipse. Please, don't do that. A proper ellipse is delivered in one fluid motion and it has smooth curvature. Don't be scared to fail, you are building your artistic skill upon a foundation of repetetive faliure.

Perspective

Perspective is good, I have few things to point out in rotated boxes exercise. First, you didn't rotate your boxes (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating). Second you forgot to add boxes on the corners of box sphere.

This is just a guess, but it seems you sometimes press your pen too hard against the paper. In ellipse tables the lines you make are really thick compared to other of your work, remember to not put too much pressure on the pen as it can shorten its lifespan and if you hold your pen very hard and stiff it can make your lines wobbly.

Overall great job, proud of you. You can go to 250 box challange, just rember about what I talked above.

Lines

Your lines overall look good, I would want to point out that sometimes your lines get wobbly, especially in rough perspective. I suppose you focused more on perspective than making good lines. Remember to do a one clean swoop, good linemaking is build upon teribble, BUT confident linemaking.

Ellipses

Ellipses are good, nothing to point out in them. Keep on practicing and you will make them smooth and nice in no time!

Perspective

Perspective isn't great, but it is expected to be that way. You will improve a lot on it while doing 250 box challange.

Overall great job, proud of you. You can go to 250 box challange, just rember about what I talked above.

Thank you for all of the feedback, I really appricate it. I tried to apply all of the tips you provided when drawin this 3/4 view insect.

Here is link: https://imgur.com/a/gbjhdz6

Once again thanks for review :)

First off, congrats on making 250 boxes! You can be proud for the rest of your life. The boxes look correct, but few things stand out to me:

1. Allow yourself to make mistakes! Sometimes when your line misses, you do another one. Please don't do that in next lessons, confident skill is made upon foundation of confident faliure. I see that your lines really improved with the amount of boxes you made, but still you should prioritize confidence over accuracy.

2. Most of your boxes have very dramatic perspective (perspective points are not far away, that they extend way over the paper you draw on). It is not mistake, dramatic perspecitve helps with doing good forshadowing, but remember that most of the boxes you make will be not as dramatic (the points will go far and beyond, compared to being pretty much next to the box).

Overall amazing job, I like the hatching you made, just remember what I talked about above and you can go to lesson 2. :)

First off, congrats on making 250 boxes! You can be proud for the rest of your life. The boxes look correct, but few things stand out to me:

1. I see that you have a problem with confident lining, that is a common thing, especially when you are not focused on making lines, but constructing boxes. Sometimes you repeat a line you failed or you go too slow, not in a smooth samurai sword swipe fashion, that kills straight lines. Please don't do that in next lessons, confident skill is made upon foundation of confident faliure.

2. You seem to do like half of the hatching for boxes, it is optional of course. But in regards to your situation with lines, I would recommend you to add hatching to the rest of the boxes. Hatching is a great exercise for learning confident and straight lines, because it is a lot of pretty small strokes that you need to make next to each other so they are parallel. Don't worry about failing at it tho, just go with the flow and prioritize confident line over a correct one.

Overall amazing job, your boxes perspective is absolutely great, but keep in mind the stuff I wrote above. Good luck in lesson 2, I recommend for you to pratice making straight confident lines a little bit more, because you might have a hard time making confident curvy lines, and there is a lot of that in lesson 2.

First off, congrats on making 250 boxes! You can be proud for the rest of your life. The boxes look correct, but one thing stands out to me:

1. Allow yourself to make mistakes! Sometimes when your line misses, you do another one. Please don't do that in next lessons, confident skill is made upon foundation of confident faliure.

Also sometimes your x-ray lines don't align with each other, and there is no point where they meet forming an edge. I suppose you fixed that problem, but still remember to first place a dot that makes an edge point, and then connect the dots using ghosting method.

Overall great job, good luck in lesson 2!