DRAWABOX LESSON 1 - Rubric

Hello!

I'm Ignite, and I’ll be critiquing your submission, using Elodin’s rubric. If a section has not been satisfactorily completed, I’ll request a re-work of a portion in order to help you understand the concept better. Here are my thoughts:

Before I critique your work, a quick note about how to improve your photo-taking setup in the future.

1. Try to take the photo from top-down, so the page is square in frame - this will help us critique the art, especially the perspective.

2. For lighting, try to have either bright daylight, or two lamps shining from two angles - if you can't do this, just light the page as best you can from a 45 degree angle, avoiding shadows. The more light, the more detail will appear in the photo so we can critique better.

3. Hold the camera / phone as still as possible. Brace your hand against something if necessary. Even a tiny wobble can slightly blur the image, and reduce the detail we can see as we try to critique.

4. If you can, use your phone's native photo editor to GENTLY clean up the photos - make the background more white, etc. Be sure not to edit TOO much, or you'll lose detail and it will actually make it harder to critique.

Here's my Lesson 1 homework, which I took with my iPhone using two lamps about 12-18 inches away from the paper on either side, and the iPhone held over the page in between the lamps:

https://imgur.com/gallery/i2q9ZvF

Your work actually looks great, so if you take nothing else away, just improve your photo-taking!

On to the critique:

Lines:

1.Wobble in lines - None. Your lines look very confident!

2.Fraying on both ends - Little to none. Your lines start at a specific point, and only fray on one end. That said, it looks like some of your lines are getting pretty far from the originally drawn line, so be sure to add this drill to y our warmups.

3.Arching lines - Little to none. Nice work!

4.Not plotting lines. Your lines look like they were all plotted.

5.Repeating lines. None observed - nice.

Ellipses:

1.Ellipses must be drawn through ellipses 2 to 3 times, (2 times preferably) - Yep, nice.

2.On the ellipse tables, keeping the ellipses should be kept within the bounds, each

ellipse touching each other, without overlapping. You get a C+ here - Your ellipses look great for a first run. I recommend adding this drill to your warmups to improve your accuracy.

3.Just like with lines, the ellipses must be drawn confidently, prioritizing confidence and smoothness,

over accuracy. Even in ghosted planes with ellipses. Your ellipses look very confident, although in the ghosted planes exercise, it looks like your ellipses were a little less confident, and were not touching the edges for some of them. I'd add this drill to your warmups.

4.On funnels, the minor axis (the line in the middle) should cut ellipses in 2 symetrical halves. - B minus. Your ellipses start to get inaccurate as they get larger, and are no longer centered. However, it's difficult to tell exactly because of the angle you took the photos at - Please refer to the photo-taking tips at the top.

Boxes:

2.On all the boxes exercises the student should draw through boxes, except on the organic perspective, in which it's optional. A minus - I think you missed maybe a couple boxes on the rotated box exercise, but that one is tough! Nice work drawing through the rest of your boxes.

3.On rough perspective, width lines should be parallel to horizon and height lines perpendicular to horizon. Some of your width and height lines are not parallel/perpendicular to the horizon - this is to be expected, but keep it in mind as you continue drawing in one or two point perspective.

4.On rough perspective, they must use the line correction method. I'm giving you a "C" but only because your photos are very difficult to see. You did the exercise correctly though! Nice work.

5.On rotated boxes, corners between boxes must be kept close. Yep, nice.

6.On rotated boxes, some boxes aren't rotating. Nope, you fully rotated boxes. Nice work.

7.On organic perspective and rotated boxes it's normal for the perspective to have mistakes,no need to critique the student harshly as they will work on it on the box challenge.

8.Lineweight should be added with confident ghosted lines, and solely to the part of lines to overlap, not to whole lines.

Overall, I'm marking this complete -