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2:32 PM, Friday September 1st 2023

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. Your ellipses in funnels are having some issues with tilting off the minor axis. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/notaligned This is something you should always start considering when drawing your ellipses. One thing you could have done with these is start with a narrower degree ellipse in the center and then widen the degrees of the ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel. Please check the example here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3 This helps with practicing different degrees of ellipses. Your ellipses are off to a great start but there's still room for improvement so keep practicing them during your warmups.

The plotted perspective exercise is missing from this album and I'll need to see that before I can mark this as complete. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. It's great that you are keeping up with the confident linework on these. You are also doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice. One thing that can help you a bit when doing a one point perspective exercise like this is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be perpendicular(straight up and down in this case) to the horizon line. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.

Your rotated box exercise was obviously a bit of a struggle. The main thing that would have helped you here would have been to just draw this a bit bigger overall. Drawing bigger really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems.You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. I can see that you were a bit perplexed by a few of the corners but please don't just leave something blank if you don't understand it as you will be assigned revisions in the future for doing so. A big part of learning how to draw is getting used to working outside of your comfort zone so at least attempt to put something down even if you don't fully understand it. The more you draw and develop your spatial thinking ability the easier these rotations are to handle. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. You have some solid boxes throughout this exercise and I can see you are developing a sense for how box lines converge to vps. There are still wonky convergences as well though so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you to keep working on this.

Overall this was a really solid submission that showed a good deal of growth. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along nicely. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. Once you get that missing page submitted and I take a look you can move on to the 250 box challenge.

Next Steps:

Missing plotted perspective homework

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5:16 PM, Friday September 1st 2023

Hello Rob, I'm glad to have been assigned a good and straight to the point critiquer!

In regards to the missing plotted perspective exercise I just forgot to submit it!

In regards to the rotating box exercise I will admit it was a bit rushed in regards to the fact that I have done draw a box before 3-ish years ago and had already finished lesson one.

However I restarted because 1 I never had anyone go over my homework and 2 I was really rusty after not drawing for 3 years!

If you want me to go over the rotating box exercise I am willing to sit down and give it my all while being as patient as possible.

Here is the missing page!

https://imgur.com/DaoZVdP

8:33 PM, Friday September 1st 2023

Okay, the plotted perspective homework looks great nothing to mention there. You don't need to redo the rotated box exercise but I would suggest revisiting it in a lesson or two as a warmup to see how much better your spatial thinking ability is. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge!

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
11:12 AM, Wednesday September 20th 2023

Hi Rob, it has been a few weeks since I started the 250 box challenge, I wonder if I should send you updates or should I just send all of it at once when I'm done doing it?

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