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6:32 AM, Wednesday May 14th 2025

Welcome and congratulations on finishing the first lesson of Drawabox! I'm Mada and I'll be taking a look at your submission.

Overall you did a great 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. Ghosted lines look correctly ghosted and confident too, and there are barely any arching. You've also demonstrated similar confidence in your ghosted planes with a great accuracy. Nothing much to say except keep up the good work!

Ellipses

Now with the tables of ellipses, you've demonstrated a great understanding of the concept in executing confident ellipses. The ellipses in planes are nice, you drew it confidently and snugly in their respective planes.

The funnels are also looking great; you've managed to fit them snugly and confidently, but somewhat misaligned to the minor axis (remember that you should try to split them equally in half; you can make this easier by rotating the paper as you align the ellipses). Otherwise, I have no complaints here as your ellipses will tighten as you get more practice. Also this is optional, but you can attempt the optional step of varying the ellipse's degrees as you move outwards in your warm ups, as mentioned here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3

Boxes

The plotted perspective has no problems, you've shown a good understanding of how to make 2 point perspective.

You've applied the ghosting method and lines extension correctly for the rough perspective. You mostly drew the front/back faces rectangular in the rough perspective exercise, which is correct for 1 point perspective. However, you forgot the last crucial step of extending the lines towards the horizon with a different pen to check for accuracy. This will become even more important in the box challenge, as you will use these line extensions to check where you're constantly making a mistake and to improve at it accordingly. Reread the full instruction of the step here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/roughperspective/step9.

Also this is more of a reminder, but 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 great as well. They look like they belong in the same page and the lines converge as they move farther away from the viewer. There are a few hiccups here and there where there are divergences that results in skewed boxes, but overall they're minor and they look pretty solid.

This will get more relevant as you get to the box challenge, but any hatching from this point on should also be done with the ghosting method. It will make your stuff cleaner and more practice is always good! Try to cover the whole area of the box with consistent spacing.

One last thing I want to mention is do not correct your lines by going over it with more lines. I really need to stress this since you've been doing it a lot throughout the box exercises. This will make your mistake stands out even more with how bold it is, and generally is against the concept of executing planned confident lines throughout this course. Unless it's waaaaay off the trajectory, accept the mistake and trust your muscle memory that it will get better with time and practice.

Anyway, while I think you've grasped most of the concepts here, I'd still like you to finish the last step of the rough perspective exercise as mentioned above. Make sure to reread the part in case you forgot about it. Once you're done with them, you'll most likely be able to move on to the box challenge!

Next Steps:

Finish the rough perspective exercise (the last step of line extensions).

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
3:58 PM, Wednesday May 14th 2025

Hi, thanks for your critique! I didn't even notice that I completely missed the last step with the rough perspective exercise, and hope to improve from here :) Here's the rough perspective with extended lines:

https://imgur.com/a/nWM5dxa

12:10 AM, Thursday May 15th 2025

Excellent! I hope you've been able to evaluate how accurate your lines are to the vanishing point. I believe you'll be able to improve at the box challenge as you keep analyzing your mistakes like this. 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.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
2:22 AM, Thursday May 15th 2025

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