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8:59 AM, Sunday December 15th 2024
Welcome and congratulations on finishing the first lesson of Drawabox! I'm Mada and I'll be taking a look at your submission. Next time try to take the picture of your drawings straight on, as taking it in an angle like this will skew the drawings and make it harder for us to evaluate the details.
Regardless, overall you did a decent job here, but I do have a bit to mention so let's break them down one by one. I'll write the most important things in bold.
Lines
Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. There are a lot of wobbles at the start, but it did get better as you went on to the 2nd page. Your lines are not that bad, but there's still a teeny bit of wobbling visible here and there. You might still be hesitating here, or limiting your pivot for some reason (usually by unconsciously using your arm or wrist as the pivot instead of your shoulder). Do keep reminding yourself to use your shoulder, and prioritize confidence over accuracy. They will get better as you get more practice, but you do need to keep conscious of what you're doing right/wrong and tweak it accordingly on your next attempt. (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ghostedlines/wobbling)
Ellipses
Now with your ellipses, you've demonstrated a great understanding of the concept in executing confident ellipses. The funnels are also looking great; you've managed to align them to the minor axis. I have no complaints with your ghosting method here as your ellipses will tighten as you get more practice. The only problem is that you're not really hitting the sides of the planes in the Ellipses in Planes exercise, or fitting them snugly in the Tables of Ellipses, making them look "floating" on the page. While accuracy is indeed less important than confidence, this is the next step that you have to really use your ellipses as you want it to. Try to touch all sides of the plane, and make the ellipses fit in snugly against each other for the Tables of Ellipses exercise. Remember that these goals are there for you to practice your accuracy, so do reread these parts in case you might forgot about it:
https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ellipsesinplanes/floating
https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/tablesofellipses/nogoal
Boxes
The plotted perspective has no problems, you've shown a good understanding of how to make 2 point perspective. The hatching you made here is very haphazard though, and only muddles the overall exercise. This will get more relevant as you get to the box challenge, but any hatching should also be done with the ghosting method unless otherwise mentioned. It will make your stuff cleaner and more practice is always good! Try to cover the whole area of the box with consistent spacing.
You've applied the ghosting method and lines extension correctly for the rough perspective. You also drew the front/back faces rectangular, which is correct for 1 point perspective. Your lines however do still wobble a bit here, so keep that in mind. Also be careful of putting the VP of 1 point perspective way off to the side, as you risk skewing the boxes further from the VP (where 2 VP is more suitable for these boxes). Generally, anywhere around the center is fine for 1 point perspective.
As the notoriously most difficult exercise in this lesson, you've done a great job at doing the rotated boxes. You've rotated them pretty well (while making sure to move the converging lines) and used neighboring elements to deduce the next orientation of boxes, which is the whole purpose of this exercise.
Finally, organic perspective looks pretty good. Most of the lines converge as they move farther away from the viewer, but there are a few hiccups here and there where there are divergences that result in skewed boxes. Also, I see you're leaning into particularly dramatic foreshortening, which can make the sense of scale inconsistent in an exercise where there are a lots of forms together like this. This can make them look like they don't belong in the same page. Keep the foreshortening more shallow (less extreme convergences), but not actually parallel with no convergences at all.
Anyway, I think you've grasped the concepts of the whole lesson and ready to put them into practice. Keep practicing your lines confidence, as it is your weakest point in this submission, and do try to redo the ellipses exercise again in your warmups (a recommended combo you should do a lot is Ghosted Planes + Ellipses in Planes, as you get the best of both worlds). Again, congratulations and keep up the good work!
Next Steps:
Move onto the 250 box challenge.
Do the lesson 1 exercises as your regular warmup and don't forget your 50% rule art.
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