View Full Submission View Parent Comment
1 users agree
10:05 PM, Wednesday July 13th 2022

Hi Dwemer80

I will critique your work for you.

By the way, with the imgur album, I think you need to upload the images altogether rather than one by one in separate uploads but if you still can't see how to do it let me know and I can try to help you :)

Lines

The super-imposed lines look good, very good clean starting points and your accuracy is quite good, well done for being brave and letting them fray! One thing I'd say is try to do more variations of different kinds of lines such as wavy lines, different degrees of curves and sizes, etc. And also make sure you make bold lines, I can see a few of the lines are a bit faint, but as you were using pencil maybe it's because of that. I know you already have fine-liners now but if you need a better one I recommend the pen by Staedtler listed in the recommended books and materials at the bottom of every page on this website. I got 3 of those and they're really good, I couldn't find one so good in any stores I went to.

Ghosted lines it looks like they could do with being a bit straighter. Try to draw your lines swiftly from the shoulder, with your eyes focused on the finishing point that you've plotted beforehand. If you see that the your lines generally curve a certain way when you draw them try to consciously curve the other way and it should counter this and make it straight, but it's something to try out. And always make sure that you don't rush when you draw the lines so that the starting point stays clean, the other end it doesn't matter if it isn't accurate, as long as the line is straight and the starting point is clean.

Your ghosted planes pages are okay, however one of them is not completed. The assignment requires for two filled pages of ghosted planes, so you will need to complete this before I can mark the lesson as complete. They look good but you need to try to get them to fit together well, try not to leave too big a gaps between the planes. In the one that isn't a full page I think it has better experimentation of the proportions of the page, continue this when you complete it.

Ellipses

Your tables of ellipses look good, the ellipses do seem to be quite uniform so in future when you revisit this exercise try to do wider ellipses mixed with narrower ones, try to make them more varied, as much as you can. Your accuracy with them is quite good, keep practicing to improve it further.

Your ellipses in planes are good, again the planes could do with being a bit more varied in size and proportion, and they could do with being a bit closer together, other than that, it's great!

Your funnels look great! One improvement would be to make the ellipses in the centre narrower than the ones at the ends of the funnels and having the ellipses between gradually wider as they go out.

Boxes

Your plotted perspective looks superb :) Rough perspective is pretty good, just again with the lines try to make them as straight as possible by doing swift lines drawn from the shoulder. Other than that it's good.

Your work on rotated boxes is okay, you've packed those lines closer together than you did on the ghosted/ellipses in planes assignments which is good, I would advise that you can improve your work by trying to make the overall thing more round, this might be achieved better by making the faces of the boxes smaller which are towards the edges, towards the horizon of the viewpoint, because as you can see the boxes at the top, bottom and sides have almost as big a face as the box in the middle which should be the largest face. The boxes really are the same size but as they get further away from the viewpoint they appear smaller which is the illusion you are meant to try to create in this exercise. Have a look here at my submission for the rotated boxes assignment to see what I mean with the boxes needing to get smaller towards the 'horizon.' If you do that evenly across all the boxes going out from the middle it should create altogether a circular shape.

Well done with organic perspective, you've done a good job. To improve it I would say you should rather than replicate the same box from different rotated versions, try to make it turn in other ways too. From what I can see, it's pretty much the same box drawn again and again smaller and smaller (which is almost correct) but you should draw the box from at every view possible, it'll turn from top to bottom, from side to side, rather than just rotating 360degrees repeatedly. Try to revisit this one in exercises in the future and make the boxes give every view from every angle that is possible!

Overall, very well done for you work.

Next Steps:

Please reply with a link to the completed page of ghosted planes.

I would say to return specifically to ellipses in planes, rotated boxes and organic perspective the most in future for exercises and warm ups.

Once you get back to me with the completed ghosted planes I will give you the pass to move onto the 250 box challenge!

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
9:20 AM, Thursday July 14th 2022
edited at 12:36 PM, Jul 14th 2022

First of all,thank you for such precise,long critique and explanation.Apreciate it

Second-sorry for my not perfect English (possible some mistakes here and there),not my native language and I dont bother to use Google Translator to check everything. Don't have so much free time-prefer to use it for drawing boxes;)

About Imgur- yes, I made new album (called Drawabox Lesson 1) .Then I loaded there all pictures concerning my homeworks. Still only option I saw when I was in that album was sth like: "create links for pictures"-and yes,it created separate link for each picture;/

Would be nice to find solution before sharing new part of homeworks.

About Staedlers-tnx for tip, will try in future maybe,but now I've bought few Sharpies (matter of expenses;/),they have to be enough for now.

If, when;) I will sink deeper into drawing I will probably buy sth better=will try Staedlers for sure.But tnx.

To the exercises:

About unfinished ghiosted planes;As I mentioned-these were additional charts,from warmups (already made in ink).Original 2 (were still in pencil) are reused for ellipses later. Edit: I see yo've already seen that;0

Don't know how "marking lesson as complete" is working.Do I need official green light to do another lessons-in this case 250 box challenge.Or is it more green light for sumbitting to review next works?

About funnels-tnx and yes.I'm aware about that narrower-wider case. But as I understood video explanation, that was and "optional" choice, lvl 2 ;) Because I was rushing and already bit tired (made lesson 0 and 1 in 5 days),I've chosen easier way for this exercise;)

Yep,your rotated boxes is great;)I understand your explanation and see my mistakes.

I was aware that those border boxes should be smaller and smaller but I was fixed a little about that "avoid distortion and foreshortening" advice;) and finally I got what I did...

"To improve it I would say you should rather than replicate the same box from different rotated versions, try to make it turn in other ways too"-yes, I will do that with next warmups but at that moment I was just focused to make them look as "correct" as I could do them.And ofc to "avoid foreshortening" golden tip ;) But yes,now I see and understand that rotating 360 degrees issue.

One more time,tnx for your time and all explanation. Will do better next time;)

edited at 12:36 PM, Jul 14th 2022
10:45 AM, Friday July 15th 2022

Hey,

Don't worry about it, I'm happy to help :D

Here I've made a little imgur upload that should help you to upload multiple images and share the link.

Yeah I'm going to mark your lesson as complete now :D I just needed to reply to a response you sent to me for it to give me the option.

Next will actually be the 250 box challenge where you'll have lot's of opportunity to experiment with different boxes!

Next Steps:

On to the 250 box challenge! It'll be long and hard but you can do it!

Good luck and do your best :D

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete. In order for the student to receive their completion badge, this critique will need 2 agreements from other members of the community.
10:07 PM, Wednesday July 13th 2022

Whoops didn't see that those two pages were warm ups till after I sent the critique, my mistake! If you reply with anything it should give me the option to give you a pass :D

2:38 PM, Thursday July 14th 2022

.

The recommendation below is an advertisement. Most of the links here are part of Amazon's affiliate program (unless otherwise stated), which helps support this website. It's also more than that - it's a hand-picked recommendation of something I've used myself. If you're interested, here is a full list.
How to Draw by Scott Robertson

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.

This website uses cookies. You can read more about what we do with them, read our privacy policy.