Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

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Hi!

In fact, this is my second attempt to enter DaB. At that time, I reached the middle of the second lesson, and about 8 months ago, for some reason, I abandoned the course and couldn't continue. But now I'm here and I won't back down, in this regard, a question:

I've already passed 250 boxes challenge and I'm not sure if I should go through it again. Should I? (click)

Although I have already passed the first lesson, many things are forgotten and I think I did it for a reason. Thanks in advance for the critique! hugs

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10:13 PM, Saturday January 22nd 2022

Hello, and welcome (back!) to drawabox. Regarding your question, there’s no need to go through the box challenge again. We will, however, ask for an extra 50 boxes (on top of the original 250) that will more properly reflect your current skill level. Before that, however, let’s take a look at your Lesson 1 submission.

Your superimposed lines look good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Your ghosted lines are nicely done, too, though they show some hesitation at the end. Be sure that you’re not focusing on the end point to the extent that your line is course-correcting partway through. More so than hitting it, the resulting line being smooth, and straight, is what matters.

The table of ellipses exercise looks great. Your ellipses are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. The ellipses in planes, too, look good, despite their more complicated frames. The funnels have some alignment issues, from time to time, so I’d definitely recommend ghosting a little more, but it’s nothing too serious, so no stress – solid work on this section, overall.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

For the rough perspective exercise, I’ll remind you that each line is drawn once, and only once, regardless of how it turns out. Resist the urge to ‘correct’ a mistake by adding more ink to it. Other than that, the exercise looks solid – both your linework, and your convergences, are on-point.

The rotated boxes exercise is missing 4 boxes (the diagonal ones), but it looks great otherwise. It’s big, its boxes are snug, and properly rotating as a result. Their back sides, and depth lines look quite good, also, though, of course, to take them to the next level, there’s the box challenge, so look forward to that.

The organic perspective exercise looks mostly good. The increase in size is solid, and though the foreshortening is at times a little too close to dramatic, the boxes manage to flow well enough, still. The automatic reinforcing (correcting an incorrect line by adding more ink to it) is an especially big issue here, since a thick line reads as being closer to us (something the far-off boxes should not read as being), but we’ve already covered it, so you know to avoid it from now on.

Next Steps:

Solid work on this lesson. I’ll mark it as complete, so you may head on over to the box challenge. GL!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
7:18 AM, Sunday January 23rd 2022

Thanks a lot for the critique! It's incredibly useful. As far as I understand, I should create a submission where I will send only 50 boxes, right?

12:13 PM, Sunday January 23rd 2022

No, actually; you should send the original 250, and a more recent 50, and clarify that you did so, so that the TA can glance at the former, and focus on the latter.

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