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12:43 PM, Tuesday November 29th 2022
Hi there Ari_9, I'm PiaPal and I'll be reviewing your work!
First of all congratulations on completing the first Drawabox Lesson!
Lines
About the Superimposed Lines: they look great. I want to congratulate you on having almost no fraying ends and no fraying beginnings. The latter one meaning that you've been carefully placing your pen at the beginning of each line and being patient about it. Which is key for this course and I want to encourage you on keeping that up. Not only with lines but with ellipses, too.
Your lines look mostly straight, although sometimes a "curviness" can be seen in the Ghosted Lines Exercise. Whenever you are about to execute a line, remember to think about engaging your shoulder and to be confident of the line you're making. Ghost the action as much as you need and then execute it. Take your time. Patience is one of Drawabox' keys. Remember that straight lines are more important than the accuracy at the moment. I've also seen that you've erased a few lines with Liquid Paper? Please, don't do that! even if they turn out badly, it's okay! That's why we're using pens. This course is meant for mistakes to occur and that we cannot erase them. That's key, too. Even if you're not happy with one result, don't go over your line nor erase it. The idea is that you execute confident lines in order to reduce the amount of mistakes that you'll make.
Planes exercise: In this one, I can see a few lines overshooting and I don't know if it's because you've been executing the actions too quickly. Remember to ghost and be patient in order to avoid this.
Ellipses
In the Planes exercise, a few of them don't conserve its volume but that's okay and you'll get eventually to it with practice. I repeat, ghost your ellipses as much as you need for them to fit in the plane. You can keep working on this in your warm-ups. The Table exercise looks great; the ellipses look in place, one bunched up next to the other, they all look with a similar volume and different sizes (which in a few cases was intended so its okay!) and they look good, too. Funnels looks also great, you're doing a very good job in keeping your ellipses well bunched up next to the other, without overshooting, so far, so good. I'd only remind you to go over your ellipses two times, and that'd be fine.
Boxes
In the Rough Perspective exercise, I can see your lines getting a bit wobbly. Remember to ghost as much as you need in order to execute a confident and straight line! (Straightness above accuracy)
In the Rotated Boxes exercise, I can see that your set of parallel lines are diverging from the VP they are supposed to go to. Remember: 4 lines go to one VP. And if you take a look at (for example) the first box right to the middle box, the two lines that are on the background are parallel from one another, and the two lines in the foreground which should meet with the lines behind in a VP, are diverging from one another. (https://imgur.com/KSHwTwo something like that) If you take a ruler and straighten those lines to infinity, you'll see that these four lines will never meet in a VP, which is incorrect. I'd recommend you to do this, take a ruler, and check where your sets of parallel lines are supposed to meet, just for you to understand the mistakes that you've made. Same happens with the box to the left to the centered one. Yet, this is a difficult exercise and you've done quite okay, and you're supposed to improve this over time. The 250 Box Challenge will help you greatly.
In the last exercise I can once again see your lines getting wobbly: have you been engaging your shoulder? have you been ghosting the action enough? Have you been thinking that action well through? If you don't know where the lines are supposed to meet in a VP' I'd recommend you that while you're ghosting your lines, you extend them a bit to where your desired VP is. Train your arm muscles and then execute the action in that direction but don't draw all the way through. That's what been helping me to achieve these exercises.
Oh, and one last thing: I've also seen you erase boxes. I won't explain it again because I already did, but restrain from doing that since it infringes one of Drawabox rules.
So far, you've done good!! Keep up with the good work! I'll request revisions, so please hand them in when you're ready.
Next Steps:
Since you've been struggling with keeping your lines straight in the Boxes exercises + how the sets of lines are supposed to meet in a VP, I'd want you to do 1 page of the Rough Perspective exercise. Remember to ghost your actions, think them through, and then execute the lines. I want you to focus on doing straight lines and understanding this concept of the vanishing point. If you need to, re-read the material. It'll help you greatly. (And do not erase your boxes!)
8:35 AM, Sunday December 4th 2022
Thanks so much, I'll do the Rough Perspective exercise once again trying to implement what you said
12:31 PM, Sunday December 4th 2022
Great! I'll be looking forward to them! :D
How to Draw by Scott Robertson
When it comes to technical drawing, there's no one better than Scott Robertson. I regularly use this book as a reference when eyeballing my perspective just won't cut it anymore. Need to figure out exactly how to rotate an object in 3D space? How to project a shape in perspective? Look no further.