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1:06 PM, Friday May 27th 2022
Hello Purplebunz and welcome to drawabox! Overall you've done a good attempt, but there are a few important things I want to talk about, let's go over everything section by section:
Starting with your lines they start off a bit wobbly overall on the superimposed lines, but by the end of the ghosted planes you're doing a great job committing to your lines and drawing them confidently even if they're going to miss then ending dot, which is just what we're looking for!
A few important things though:
-Sometimes you aren't drawing all the lines on each plane, make sure you always pay attention so you finish everything fully
-Sometimes I can see a bit of fraying at both ends of the lines, make sure that whenever you draw a line you carefully place the pen at the starting dot so the lines can fray on maximum one end.
-Another important thing is that you are drawing the starting and ending dots too big. Make sure you draw them the same size as the lines you draw so you can assess the results of the ghosting line exercises properly.
Other than that you're doing a good job planning everything and drawing your lines cleanly, good job!
Moving onto your ellipses they're confident just like your lines on the lines section, which is exactly what you're meant to do!
Your accuracy is pretty good in general as well, there are a few cases in which you don't get the ellipses to touch the sides of the adjacent ellipses or them to touch the top or bottom lines, but in general I think you're aiming for them. Keep practicing and accuracy will improve with time!
Another thing is that your ellipses get a bit deformed at times. This applies as well to the ellipses on ghosted planes, which I think they're a bit more deformed than the others. You might be thinking that the centre of the ellipses is the same as the centre of the planes or that you should modify the elliptical ellipse shape so it touches the contact points, but this is not the case. Ellipses have to be symmetrical and have the same shape regardless of where they are, so the only things you can change is how wide the ellipse is, which position it is in and their size.
Lastly on your funnels sometimes you aren't aligning the ellipses to the minor axis. Make sure you always aim for the ellipses to be cut symmetrically by the middle line even if that means you need to ignore the initial curves. Pay also attention to the angle of the ellipses as well. They have to be cut symmetrically by the line, so they can't be tilted.
Finally in your boxes a few things:
-Your lines are overall pretty clean and straight, but they are getting a bit wobbly unlike your last work on the ghosted planes.
Your first priority with lines is to make them confident and straight just like in the lines section, so focus on that first and don't worry if you need to sacrifice accuracy to achieve it.
Here's one example, top line is a level 1 line, and bottom line is a level 0 line. This is because a confident line will always be better than a wobbly line in these exercises. In general try to approach them just like an individual ghosted lines exercise. Remember that these boxes don't have to look good, they're just practice for yourself. So if they help you get better it doesn't matter how they look!
-Sometimes you're crossing boxes and lines that went wrong and not finishing them. Make sure you don't do this, and that you keep going even if something went wrong. One important part of drawabox is about learning how to deal with your mistakes without starting over or stopping, so make sure you don't do that!
-On plotted perspective you did a good job following the instructions of the exercise, nothing to say here!
-On rough perspective apart from the line issues, the main thing is that you aren't extending your lines correctly. Lines need to be extended with a ruler without changing their direction. If you did the exercise perfectly the lines you extended would all touch the vanishing point, but that's only if it was perfect. If you extend the lines correctly on your exercises you'll see many lines that don't hit the vanishing point, and that's where you would find your mistakes.
-On rotated boxes you did a good job completing it, you have a few mistakes on the perspective of the boxes that made it a bit confusing (which is normal since this exercise is super hard) so make sure you attempt this again after the box challenge. That said, this is the box you missed on the exercise that you marked with a ?. It isn't perfect as your previous mistakes made it harder to make, which made it even more confusing, but just wanted to show it to you in case it helps. Make sure you also don't put comments on the exercises themselves, if you have a specific questions like for example you didn't understand how to place that last box, make sure you put those on the description of the submission whenever you submit.
-On organic perspective the main thing is that I think you aren't drawing starting and ending points for all of your lines. If this is the case make sure you do it because it's super important for applying the ghosting method properly.
Remember also that you can add lineweight to the parts of outer lines that overlap with other boxes to clarify which ones are on top and which behind, so give it a try next attempts you have at the exercise!
Lastly you are already doing some good attempts at the perspective of the boxes. Good job! They still have issues but that isn't a problem as you'll work on them on the box challenge.
Overall like I said you've done a pretty good job, but I want to make sure you know how to extend the lines of the rough perspective boxes and that you can draw lines confidently, so I'll ask you to do one more page of rough perspective. Good luck and keep up the good work!
8:51 PM, Friday June 3rd 2022
Thank you!
6:05 AM, Wednesday August 17th 2022
2 months later, it's finally finished lol. This actually took me an hour, after completeing lesson 1 I went straight onto the 250 box challange. Oops.
6:22 PM, Friday August 19th 2022
Funnily enough while marking the critique as unhelpful doesn't actually make any difference in the case of official critique, it did put my attention on it.
I've sent Elodin a reminder so you should get your feedback soon - when students send in their revisions to official critiques, the TA assigned to it gets blocked from tackling any other critiques until they address the revisions. I think Elodin might have been busy with other things though, so he may not have been actively doing other critiques (resulting in him not seeing the revisions come up).
My apologies for the delay. I've glanced at your work, and your rough perspective work is looking fine - so you should be good to move onto the box challenge. When Elodin gets around to marking this one as complete, it'll be backdated to August 17th, when you submitted the revisions (so the 14 day cooldown will be based on that date).
10:23 PM, Friday August 19th 2022
My apologies for abusing the reporting system. Thank you kindly for your reply.
12:22 AM, Saturday August 20th 2022
Hello, sorry for the wait! I got a bit busy.
Overall you've made a good job! You've extended the lines correctly and your lines are more confident.
The only thing is that you are repeating some lines. Make sure you never repeat a line even if goes off. I know it's hard, but do your best to resist the urge of correcting them.
The other thing is that some lines are a bit arched. It only happens a few times, but always make sure you are aiming for drawing straight lines, and that you are always drawing from the shoulder.
So keep those things in mind and move on to the box challenge!
From now on you need to do warmups of the exercises you've completed, so don't forget to do them. Make sure to ask any questions you have and good luck, keep up the good work!
Next Steps:
250 box challenge

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