Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

10:56 AM, Monday February 19th 2024

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theres a blank funnel on one page because i didnt line it up properly and didn't think it would work for the assignment. also im very sorry about the order of the assignments, i couldnt figure ot how to adjust the order on imgur

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11:14 AM, Tuesday February 20th 2024

Hey there, I'm Meta and I'll be your TA today, so let's get started.

Lines

Starting with your superimposed lines, you're doing a great job lining your pen up with the starting point and executing your lines confidently. Next, your ghosted lines and planes are looking pretty confident as well - there's a few minimal wobbles here and there but they seem to clear up by the end of the lesson so I suspect it was just a matter of mileage.

Ellipses

Onto your tables of ellipses and these are off to a great start. Your linework is confident for the most part, you've selected a good variety of shapes and sizes of ellipses to practice, and you've kept them squeezed up tight against each other. I did notice that on one of the pages, you didn't draw through all your ellipses 2-3 times, though the other page and the future exercises seem to have addressed this.

Next your ellipses in planes are looking good, you've made clear attempts to hit the four sides of the plane while remaining confident and not over-focusing on accuracy. Finally, your funnels are off to a good start - you're getting them quite well aligned to the minor axis and it's good to see you're starting to vary the degree of the ellipses. On the "advanced" page, you definitely tended to wobble a bit more though, possibly because you've added another priority to the mix - you'll get the hang of it as you work on it through your warm-ups.

Boxes

On your plotted perspective - you may have noticed some of the back lines of your boxes are not vertical - this can happen when there's slight inaccuracies in the lines used to plot the front of the box not going back to the exact vanishing point drawn. Something to keep in mind, as you will encounter this again.

Onto your rough perspective and you've made fairly successful efforts to keep the horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line. You've correctly applied the line extensions and your perspective lands in a pretty normal margin of error. I did notice a few instances where you've gone back over your lines - try to resist the urge to go back over lines to "correct" them as this lends more visual weight to the mistake and goes against the concept of careful planning that Drawabox tries to reinforce.

Your rotated boxes are off to a good start - you're keeping the gaps between the boxes tight and consistent, which has given you good cues about where to place the next one. You didn't manage to capture the full range of rotation, tending to follow the vanishing point of the box you previously put down, however this exercise is intended only as an introduction to certain concepts you will explore further throughout the course.

Finally, you're getting a good amount of variation in the size and rotation of your boxes in the organic perspective exercise which is starting to create a sense of depth in each frame, though if you wanted to push it further, you could play with the scale between the smallest and largest boxes as well as trying to overlap the ones closest to the viewer. The boxes themselves are diverging a bit in places, however like the previous exercise, this one is simply an introduction to the concepts you'll explore in depth in the 250 box challenge.

Next Steps:

Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
1:23 PM, Tuesday February 20th 2024

Hi, After looking at the example sheets for the rotated perspective, I see what you mean by not fully rotating them, mine are a bit shallow. I'm excited for the box challenge to bring some a bit more clarity into the exercises, the organic persepctive really gave me a hard time. Thank you for taking the time to critique my work :)

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