Hello Greg,
I'm not sure if this is your first time attempting draw a box or not, but you have put together a fine body of work for Lesson 1. Hopefully I can still provide some helpful critique.
Starting with your ghosted and superimposed lines. Your linework shows a strong degree of confidence that comes from ghosting and drawing with your shoulder. Some of your longer lines have a slight arcing tendency near the end of the line, but this is a minor critique for the most part. Same goes for your superimposed lines, your shorter and medium length lines show excellent confidence with minimal fraying. You do have some wavering in your longer lines, but you are able to avoid fraying at both ends of the lines.
Moving on to the ellipses exercises you again show a fine degree of control and confidence in your ellipses. Your ellipses are smooth and drawn through the recommended 2-3 times. You have drawn a good amount of ellipses and are able to nail both the accuracy and confidence of your shapes without having the "pointy ends" which are common to most students.
Your funnels are also well constructed and confident. One thing to keep in mind is that your line should bisect the ellipses into two equal halves. However, I believe this is occuring more due to the lines not being perfectly center rather than a flaw in your ellipse construction as most of your ellipses are well aligned on their minor axis.
Regarding your rough perspective exercise your lines are slightly less confident than shown in your previous exercises. This may be due to focusing on accuracy of your lines for this exercise rather than strictly confidence. Just something to keep in mind when practicing this exercise in the future. You've only done it a couple times, but make sure not to redraw any incorrect lines, despite how badly the mind wants to fix it.
Great job on the rotated boxes! Probably the most challenging Lesson 1 exercise and you have managed to pull off the illusion well. There are some places where line confidence wavers slightly and you have some curvy lines, but overall excellent job.
Lastly your organic exercise is also well done. You have regained the line confidence shown in your early planes and ghosting exercises and have followed the instructions well. Your boxes show depth and you weren't afraid to experiment with overlapping boxes and box sizes.
Again well done, keep up the good work and maintain these exercises as warmups for future Draw a Box sessions. You should be proud of your work thus far and are definitely ready to move on to the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
Proceed to the 250 Box Challenge. Practice 2-3 of the Lesson 1 exercises during a 15 minute warmup before drawing sessions. Remember to prioritize line confidence over line accuracy when ghosting in all exercises.
Hello Acro,
thank you for your critique!
For your information - yes, as you suspected, I practiced these superimposed and ghosted lines earlier, about two weeks or something before I thought that I should do it in required format and give for critique.
What surprised me in your critique is comment about Rotated Boxes - I thought contrary but I'm happy now.
Greg
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