Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
1:23 AM, Wednesday October 27th 2021
I hop i did the homework in a correct way
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2:24 AM, Tuesday December 14th 2021
Hi, welcome to drawabox. I will look at your work today. What I will be looking for are just some general mistakes found in a lot of lesson 1 work, so even if you have a lot of points I listed here that does not mean you should get a revision, it's just a reminder of some mistakes to avoid whenever you do the exercise again. If however IU feel you have missed tthe point of the exercise or not have understood enough of it to move on, I will recommend that you do a revision.
It looks like you have been awaiting feedback for around a month. If you want to get feedback faster you can join the drawabox discord and go to the #critique-exchange section. With that out of the way:
Lines
• For the superimposed lines exercise there seems to be a bit of fraying on both the start and end of the line. While fraying on the end is to be expected you should always try to avoid fraying on the front. if possible you should always make an effort to place your pen carefully on the starting point.
• There's some wobbliness on your lines but it looks more like you were struggling to use the shoulder for the first time, so I'll let it pass.
• On some lines there seems to be a smaller line or mark made to connect them together. Remember that you should never repeat a line in Drawabox, unless otherwise stated (for example, repeating lines on the outer edge of a box for the 250 boxes challenge).
Ellipses
• Your ellipses are drawn more than three times, remember that in drawabox you should only draw through them 2 or 3 times, preferably twice.
• Some ellipses on the table of ellipses and Ellipses in planes are reaching outside the boundary, and some on funnels are not reaching the boundary (they have to be closely packed).
• On funnels, specifically for the one in the bottom right corner, it looks like you were still unsure what the minor axis for it is supposed to be. Just keep in mind the minor axis is the line that divides ellipses in two.
Boxes
There aren’t any noteworthy things that I see in the boxes section, except for maybe some perspective issues on rotated boxes and organic perspective, which you will work on in the 250 boxes challenge.
It looks like you have understood everything that you need to move, with most of the exercise not having any major mistakes and are ready to move on to the 250 boxes challenge. As long as you keep these points in mind for future exercises you should be on the right track.
P.S when you submit your exercises, it would really help for others critiquing if it was posted chronologically (from the first exercise until the last in order) or keep pages together (pages of your table of ellipses and ellipses in planes are separated by other pages in between, for ex
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 boxes challenge. If you don't mind you should join the discord to ask for more specific feedback and get guaranteed critiques (as long as you critique the works of others).
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