Hello, and welcome to drawabox. Let’s take this one exercise at a time, shall we?
Starting with your superimposed lines, these look really good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory, too. One thing I notice is an occasional hook at the end; make sure that your pen is fully off the page, before moving it back to the starting point. Your ghosted lines/planes look equally confident – I’m pleased to see how boldly you’ve missed some of your end points. On that same topic, however, try not to correct an incorrect line.
Moving on to the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise looks really good. Your ellipses are smooth, and rounded, but sometimes drawn through a little much. Leaving that aside, however, for someone of your level of confidence, I’d recommend sticking to 2 rotations – how you’re doing will be much clearer, then, and you’ll be able to fine-tune accordingly. Save for that, the ellipses in planes exercise looks great – your ellipses here do a good job of fitting within these more complicated frames. The funnels, too, look solid. You’ll want to make more of an effort to have the edge-ellipses touch the frames, however. Similarly, you’ll want to have the minor axes go through these in their entirety, rather than stop halfway. An ellipse aligned to nothing is not of much use to us, after all.
The plotted perspective exercise looks a little busy, but everything here is well done.
The rough perspective exercise, too, looks good; I’m pleased to see that you’re taking your time, planning out each line. As a result, the back sides of your boxes are mostly correct. Linework is a bit of an issue, still, though we’ve already talked about that (it’s the automatic reinforcing point).
In the rotated boxes exercise, you seem to have forgotten about the reminder boxes. (Though I suppose they could also be out of frame – this is why we insist the photo is not cropped, but instead shows the entirety of the page.) Still, despite that, your boxes rotate nicely; likely because of how snug they are. The backsides, too, look solid, as do your depth lines.
Small misunderstanding in the organic perspective exercise: a box that’s overlapping another should not hide its lines. Also, here especially, it’s important to be mindful of your linework, because a thick line will read as being closer to us – not something you want for the boxes that are meant to be further back. Anyway, despite all this, your boxes flow well, as a result of them being mostly correct, and overlapping a lot.
Next Steps:
Solid work on this lesson. I’ll mark it as complete, so head on over to the box challenge. GL!
Thanks for your answer, i'm new in this patreon thing , sorry for make these questions but i have some doubts:
1.when i dont have a feedback about my work yet, can't i still upload the next lesson?
2.in "Next steps", are you meaning that i should do the box challenge first before the lesson 2?
3.Can i upload my homework of lesson 2 now? because i have already done it
Anyway, thank for your fast reply,
The specific requirements of the official critique path are listed here, in Lesson 0. This point in particular is relevant to your questions:
Our students are required to start receiving their official feedback from Lesson 1, and are only allowed to move onto the next set of work once they've had the previous lesson's work marked "officially" as complete. No jumping in mid-course, and getting completion via un-official, "community" critique unfortunately does not count towards this.
In other words, a student submits their work for Lesson 1, waits to get their feedback on it, and handles any revisions that may be assigned. Once marked as complete, they can move onto the next step (which is the 250 box challenge, as mentioned here - it's also listed as a prerequisite for lesson 2 here).
Now, there are students who ended up rushing forward and completing other challenges/lessons prior to deciding to go the official critique route. For them, we provide just one exception - we don't ask that they redo the entire box challenge in full. Instead, we only ask that they do an additional 50 boxes completed after having Lesson 1 marked as complete, and that they submit it with the other boxes they already did on their own.
Based on your wording, it looks like you jumped right from Lesson 1 to Lesson 2, and haven't completed the box challenge. In that case, you'll be expected to complete the box challenge first, submit it for official critique and have it marked as complete, then redo Lesson 2 (so the work that is submitted is as up-to-date as possible).
I know it can be cumbersome (which is why it's all explained right up front at Lesson 0, so students can choose which path they wish to take by the time they finish Lesson 1, as mentioned towards the end of that explanation). The course is designed this way so that those doing critiques do not have to point out the same issues over and over. If we see the same issue in a later submission, it has to be interpreted as meaning the student did not understand when it was pointed out previously. If it means instead that it simply came up because the work was done prior to the issue being pointed out the first time, then that complicates things and puts more work on our plate - making it harder to offer the feedback as cheaply as we do.
Basically, all those requirements are there to allow us to offer feedback as efficiently (and therefore as cheaply) as possible, pushing the labour onto the student where possible.
I will follow the order that is required, thank you very much for taking the time to answer me.
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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