Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

12:24 AM, Sunday August 2nd 2020

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I used my ghosted planes for the elipses as I believe was the assignment, but can redo them if that is incorrect.

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1:44 AM, Sunday August 2nd 2020

Hi and congrats on completing the first lesson. I'll be looking over your submission today. The way you used the ghosted planes is fine. Your superimposed lines are off to a great start. You are keeping a neat starting point on these, especially on the second page, and keeping your fraying confined to the opposite end and I'm seeing noticeable improvement by the second page. Good job. Your ghosted lines and planes are looking great. You are using the ghosting method to great effect and are achieving some very smooth and confident linework with a high deal of accuracy.

Your tables of ellispes appear to be missing from your album. I'm assuming you did them but I'll need you to upload them before I can mark this lesson as complete. Looking at your ellipses in planes though these are well done. You are doing a great job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on maintaining a smooth ellipse shape. Your accuracy isn't entirely there yet but this will grow with mileage. Your ellipses in funnels are looking pretty good overall. You are still drawing through your ellipses and getting those smooth ellipse shapes but there are some issues with ellipses not aligning to the minor axis correctly that you should probably think about. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned You can also try widening the degrees of your ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel instead of keeping them close the same degree as you are now. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/step3

Plotted perspective looks great nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercise looks very good. You are keeping up with that confident linework throughout and you are doing a great job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your estimations were quite off but that is something else that will get a lot better with practice.

Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty well. Great line quality again and you also did a great job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You are running into a pretty typical problem that a lot of students have with this exercise where you aren't rotating your boxes enough and are simply move them back into perspective. Please check the lesson notes here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating Your organic box exercise turned out okay. Once gain your line quality is very good here. You seem to have been very diligent in using the ghosting method throughout these exercises and it's really paying off. That said you relied a little too heavily on parallel lines in your box constructions here and in some cases the lines are actually diverging a bit because of this. The practice you get doing the 250 box challenge will really help you in this regard.

Overall this was an excellent submission with a lot of hard work put into it. You did a great job following most of the instructions and you are really grasping most of the ideas these exercises are trying to teach. Even though I'm sure your table of ellipses turned out fine I'm still gonna need you to upload them so I give them a quick look before I mark this lesson as complete.

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Missing two pages table of ellipses

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6:43 AM, Sunday August 2nd 2020

Thanks so much for your feedback! I have added the missing pages to the link, sorry about that! I am going to start tomorrow with the 250 box challenge, I do agree that the mileage gained in doing so will help a lot with some of the fundamental issues I am having. Thanks again for taking the time to review my work, I really appreciate it!

4:21 PM, Sunday August 2nd 2020

Yep, these look good. Great job drawing through and focusing on getting a smooth shape. Good luck with the box challenge!

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5:37 PM, Sunday August 2nd 2020

Thanks!

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