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1:40 PM, Tuesday May 2nd 2023
Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on making it past Lesson 1. I’m TA Benj, and I’ll be taking a look at how you did.
Starting off, your superimposed lines look good. I’m very pleased to see so many of them on your page, and all of them are smooth, properly lined up at the start, and generally of a consistent trajectory (some of the longer ones will course-correct now and again, but it’s not a huge deal). Your ghosted lines/planes look quite confident, also, and I like seeing that taper at the end of them. I should mention, however, that each line is to be drawn once and only once, regardless of how it turns out. Resist the temptation to add more ink to a mistake, as it doesn’t fix it, anyway.
The table of ellipses exercise looks good! Your ellipses are confident at every size – I was a little worried seeing so many small ones, as small marks are notoriously hard to properly engage the shoulder for, but you’ve done well here – as well as rounded, and properly drawn through. It would be helpful if you experimented with a few more degrees/angles (you’re mostly repeating the same three, here), but it’s minimal. The ellipses in planes look good, also. Despite these more complicated frames, your ellipses here do a good job of maintaining their prior smoothness/roundness. The funnels, too, look very confident. Your ellipses here are properly snug, and cut in half by their respective axes. Nice work!
The plotted perspective exercise looks clean. I’m not sure why the rough perspective exercise has been split over so many pages, but you’ve got a good amount of work here, so that’s fine. Its convergences look solid – they start off strong, and improve nicely throughout the set. Its linework, on the other hand, leaves a little to be desired, what with its automatic reinforcing habit, but we’ve gone over that in the lines section, so no need to get into it again. Good attempt at the rotated boxes exercise. The boxes don’t exactly rotate, but they’re snug, and you’ve been mindful of their back sides, and depth lines. Their construction is quite solid, too, and the same can be said for the boxes in the organic perspective exercise. Not only that, but their increase in size, and consistent, shallow foreshortening make it so that they flow quite as intended, too.
Next Steps:
I’ll be marking this lesson as complete, so you may head on over to the box challenge. Best of luck to you!
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