Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

3:41 PM, Thursday February 11th 2021

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What a challenge this has been for me! I am still struggling in making my lines smoothly and with confidence. I find that when ghosting I concentrate too much and that affects my strokes to come out naturally.

Also, my boxes are not quite accurate in perspective!

I am looking forward the 250 boxes challenge to continue improving!

Looking forward reading your comments!

Sorry for my bad english...Thanks again!

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2:40 PM, Friday February 12th 2021

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. Your ellipses in funnels are having some slight issues with tilting off the minor axis. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned This is something you should always start considering when drawing your ellipses. You're ellipses are off to a great start keep up your practicing them during your warmups.

The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspectives turned out pretty good. It's great that you are keeping up with the confident linework on these. You are also doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice. Nice work.

Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty well. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes although I do think you could have kept your gaps between your boxes a bit more narrow and consistent. You are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in most cases here but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. Your box constructions are solid for the most part and you seem well prepared for the 250 box challenge.

Overall this was a pretty excellent submission with not a ton to criticize. I think your line quality and confidence along with your ellipses are both in a great spot. You are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey very well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work!

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
3:54 PM, Friday February 12th 2021

Hi Rob,

A big thank you for your detailled review. I feel more focussed, confident and excited to pursue my journey! See you in a couple of weeks with the 250 box challenge!

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