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10:36 AM, Wednesday April 1st 2020
Hey there benj, it's me. Your worst nightmare.
Let's start with your superimposed lines. These are straight and confident and you've kept fraying to a minimum by taking the time to line up your pen. There's a couple of the longer lines where you've dragged on back to the guideline and we both know that's a no-no.
Your ghosted lines and planes are again, straight and confident. As discussed on the Discord server, you've got a significant amount of tapering going on that probably isn't intentional nor desirable. I've seen some of the boxes you've started drawing where you've tried to reduce this and it doesn't seem to have had a negative impact on any other part of your line confidence.
The tables of ellipses are good. Your ellipses are confident and you've packed them in there nice and tightly (the small ones are probably the loosest). I did notice you occasionally draw through your ellipses too many time and whilst we recommend 2-3 times, as you're particularly confident with them, I'd suggest trying to keep it to 2 times so that you're not unnecessarily making your ellipses heavier than they need to be as they are in some cases here.
Your ellipses in planes are looking good, you've done a good job keeping them confident whilst hitting all four sides of the plane the majority of the time. Not much else to say about 'em.
Finally for your funnels, you've done a good job of keeping your ellipses aligned. There's a few times where they skew off slightly compared to their counterparts but this tends to be towards the ends of the funnel, which is pretty normal as we have less boundaries to hold them in there and therefore we're alone in the cold with our stick and ellipse.
The hatching on your plotted perspective hurt my eyes. Good work. :<
Your rough perspective is good, you've kept your horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line. Your convergences are pretty dang good. Just don't draw on the back side of your paper when stuff has bled through, it's annoying to look at, makes my eyes bleed worse than the hatching on your plotted perspective.
You've done a good job keeping the gaps between your boxes tight and consistent on the front planes of your rotated boxes. It's pretty good on the rear planes as well but you've lost it a little on the outer boxes. The range of rotation is also quite good but keeping those gaps at the back consistent could probably have pushed it all the way.
Finally your organic perspective has some cool compositions. They're doing a fantastic job of conveying a sense of 3D in the scene through your use of scale variations and overlapping of boxes. That and an already fairly well established understanding of perspective means this is an exercise well done.
Next Steps:
Take your shiny gold badge and go draw some boxes.
Staedtler Pigment Liners
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).