4:30 PM, Saturday September 7th 2024
Hey Uwuless, it's me Buroba. I'm grateful for the considerations you've given me in the comments you've left for my Lesson 1 Work, I think I should return the favor as well, I hope you'll be fine having me! I'm gonna try my best looking out for what's best for you, let's take a look at your work then.
Super Imposed Lines
Immediately, I'm worried about something for you. The assignment only asks of us for two pages of Super Imposed Lines, and you've provided four, and this happens again with your other assignments when I glanced over the whole Imgur link. In fact, I think you doubled the work for yourself. While I think it's admirable for you to go above and beyond, I don't think it's worth it for you to be doing so much immediately. We are going to be incorporating these exercises into our warmups (Look here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/3/warmups), so look forward to the opportunities of improvement in the future when you are doing these before every DrawABox session!
That was simply a concern of mine for you as a student of DrawABox. Going back to the comments, I can say that everything seems neat and orderly. While you executed some lines with fraying on both sides it's not so major as to the point it's obvious you're not focusing, which isn't the case. I can see you pay attention to your lines. I can say however, your work contains a fair bit of wobbling (Observe here: https://imgur.com/a/e4S3PPi).
It's stressed very constantly in DrawABox, we should strive for confidence, not accuracy, getting comfortable with drawing from the shoulder means we should forget about line accuracy and developing marks that align with the Principles of Mark Making (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/3/markmaking), THEN accuracy becomes something we can worry about. You still had moments of following this principle which proves to me you do draw from the shoulders and try to adhere to the lessons. This is simply going to be improved in doing this exercise as warmup.
All in all, Super Imposed Lines seems good! Great job on your work here.
Ghosted Lines
Ghosted Lines remains pretty much the same, I'm worried about you doing more than whats needed, but otherwise you executed the lines well. Great job here.
Ghosted Planes
Starting from the Ghosted Planes I'm getting worried of your priorities. Observe in these images, (https://imgur.com/a/7uhpkBz), you drew a line going from a corner of your box, what should've been a beautiful, straight execution suddenly encounters a dip along it's trajectory. I don't know the specific instance of these lines, but it's a repeated pattern I notice across all four pages of your work on Ghosted Planes, you execute a nice line and all of a sudden it's dipping and not flowing smoothly. I'd like to see one more page of Ghosted Planes with a full priority on Line Confidence. You should forget being accurate, I want you to be confident, execute these marks with your full attention.
In future exercises you have improved on your mark making to the point it can be clean, but I'd like you to revisit Ghosted Planes and properly execute this exercise with the right focus in mind. Confidence BEFORE Accuracy.
Table of Ellipses
I must say, this is my favorite section of your work! You have a lot of moments of executing clean shaped ellipses, but the best part is how you overall stayed strictly in place between the lines of your Table, and how you draw through your ellipses. Is this a reflection of your time doing the Ghosting Method? I'm not sure, but whatever you're doing, keep it up. There are outliers who strayed from the box which is to be expected, and your ellipses are rough in shape from being very loose, but Uncomfortable himself stresses drawing through your boxes, and letting the muscle memory develop for you to actually draw smooth ellipses soon. (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/tablesofellipses) Great job here!
Ellipses in Planes
I have no comment for your ellipses here. They've been executed wonderfully, nice job on connecting most of them to the edges of your Boxes. They will get cleaner with practice!
Funnels
Great job on funnels too. You maintained on most of the ellipses an adherence in alignment, to the minor axis, the central line between the arcs, and while there are again, outliers, this is simply an issue solved with consistent inclusion into your warm up routine. You seem to have a massive strong point with ellipses, so nice job!
Plotted Perspective
Nice work here. I don't have much to say, you executed what was expected of your for this exercise.
Rough Perspective
Rough Perspective I really started to see some cleaner marks compared to the Ghosted Planes. Outlying marks not aligning to the VP is all but expected for us, keep it up in your warmups and you'll starting hitting closer to the point. I can say however, there are some instances where you forgot to extend lines here, (https://imgur.com/wVhWqzV), I don't know if you erased it as it seems you did your line extensions with a pencil, but keep in mind to look out for all four edges next time.
Rotating Boxes
I have to be transparent, I don't see an understanding of various perspective principles here that DrawABox laid out. I hope I can clearly lay out my concerns here. Here we go.
Observe in this instance where you were drawing Lines to move towards the four boxes on the edges (https://imgur.com/a/epEuE9n). I don't understand the reasoning for making the line of purple longer than the central box, because the assignment of this exercise states,
"Because we're transitioning from those top/bottom lines converging to an infinite vanishing point to a concrete vanishing point (meaning those top/bottom lines will start converging), this means that as we transpose our corners from one side to the other, they're also going to move closer to the horizontal axis."
You mentioned in my Lesson One review that English is not your first language. That one statement from Uncomfortable already messed with me as I was trying to decipher his words, I can't imagine what it would be like for you to try understand that mess of English. Please watch his video here, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSbFHHrQK7w), I hope it doesn't end up being too hard for you to understand but he a does a way better job at explaining this exercise and the reason for convergences better than I can.
I am telling you to do at least 1 more page of this exercise, because I want to improve your understand of rotation principles here, especially before the 250 Box Challenge. To at least understand the Infinite Vanishing Point, how boxes slide across a VP as it rotates either farther from the VP versus closer towards the VP. That example I showed my concerns with was nothing compared to your next paper though, I definitely saw improvements on your next example! (https://imgur.com/a/rLMbaxr). You had a firmer grasp on rotation principles, but you still had some losses in that you forgot to actually MOVE the VP as it rotated closer towards the box, resulting in the circled boxes aligning, and you just forgot corner shapes in general by the arrows I pointed out. You had it! Just one more page.
If you are having trouble, please let me know, I can try my best to help you understand, off of my understanding on Uncomfortable's Perspective lessons. This exercise causes misery for me as well, but I don't want you to produce some artistic masterpiece of rotated boxes, I just want to know you DO understand the perspective principles and why things look the way they do rotated.
Organic Perspective
I have no comments here, matter of fact, you've displayed well enough to me that you can draw Clean Marks now, after all those exercises. It's wonderful! Your rotational skills using the Y Method are also clean, and the boxes don't seem to be the same.
My concern still stands however, I'd like you to come back to Ghosted Planes one more time, but otherwise you have done the Organic Perspective exercise wonderfully.
Conclusion
You've shown some rapid improvement here Uwuless, and you are bordering the next step. You just need one more push before I can confidently tell you to move on towards the 250 Box Challenge, attacking your Line Confidence and Perspective Understanding will be key there! I don't mind imperfect work, I just need a good show of your understanding of perspective, and priorities of DrawABox.
I'm sorry if this was so long, but I hope to hear from you soon. Thanks for all your help as well for me, Uwuless!
Next Steps:
1 Ghosted Lines
1 Page Rotating Boxes




