Hello!
I am re-submitting my Lesson 1 Homework, since I already had it for community feedback.
I also remade some of my old homework.
The tools that I used where ballpoint pens, a 0.4 fineliner and once I got a 0.5 fineliner I only used that.
I also finished the 250 Box challenge already, but I know about the additional 50 Boxes.
Let me know If I did anything wrong! Thanks :)
Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on completing Lesson 1 (and the box challenge!). I’ll take a look at the former, and then you can move on to those 50 boxes.
Starting off, your superimposed lines look good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of consistent trajectory. Your ghosted lines/planes look quite confident, also. I’m especially pleased to see that you’ve plotted start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of the planes, since most students forget. That said, see if you can make them a little smaller, next time. The idea is for a perfect line to swallow them both.
Onto the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise is looking great. You’ve got a great variety of ellipses, here (referring to their degrees/angles), and they’re also smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. Your ellipses in planes do a decent enough job of maintaining these same qualities, but I can tell that you’re stressing a little about everything being able to fit into these new frames. You need not be! Recall that our #1 priority is not the accuracy of our marks but rather their confidence. It’s fine to sacrifice the former for the latter; the opposite, is not. Nice work on your funnels – I’m pleased to see so many of them (though I think you’d have benefitted from fewer, larger ones). Also, be mindful that your ellipses here need to either be of a consistent degree, or increase as they move away from the center, not decrease.
As for the box section, the plotted perspective exercise starts things off well (and I’m happy to see that you switched to a pen/ruler for the hatching lines – that’s correct). The rough perspective exercise shows decent improvement throughout the set. Even by the end, there’s the odd box that makes me think that you went into autopilot, but there’s an understanding here, so it’s fine. Just try to always be present, and patient – there’s no obligation to stick to your first guess, you know; it’s perfectly fine to alter a point if you find it to be wrong. Also, here too, it’ll be helpful to draw bigger. For the rotated boxes exercise, I’ll quickly remind you that we’re fine with you making mistakes. What we’re not fine with is you being afraid of those mistakes, and wanting to erase them (either by literally erasing them, or redrawing the line such that it’s ‘correct’). That’s not a good habit, so try to drop it. The boxes are fine, though. In the organic perspective exercise, too, you’ve done well. Your boxes are well constructed, and flow well as a result of their size and foreshortening. Nice work.
Next Steps:
Onto those 50 boxes!
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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