Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your tapering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out very well. You are doing a great job using the ghosting method to get very confident linework with a pretty decent degree of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.
Your table of ellipses is coming along well. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and while you are getting some deformed ellipses here and there you do seem to be focused on getting a smooth ellipse shape. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. I do have one not about the amount of times you are drawing through on these though. Try and limit your draw through to 2 - 3 times max as I'm seeing 4+ times on some of these and frankly it's getting a bit busy. You're having some slight issues with your ellipses tilting off the minor axis on your ellipses in funnels exercise. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned This isn't a huge deal for you but just something to keep in mind a bit more. Overall your ellipses are off to a very good start and I'm seeing any real bad habits forming. Nice work.
The plotted perspective looks great nothing to mention here. You rough perspective boxes turned out pretty good. You are keeping up with the confident linework here which is great but I am noticing you have a habit of redrawing lines on occassion. Try and stick with the initial line you put down even if it's slightly. This tends to look much cleaner than redrawing lines. You did a good job extending the lines back on your boxes correctly. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice.
Your rotated box exercise was a pretty good attempt. You did a good job drawing through your boxes although I think this started to fall apart on your a bit because you weren't super consistent with the gaps between your boxes. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/guessing You didn't quite nail all of your rotations which is perfectly fine given the difficulty of this exercise but you did pretty well overall. 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 exercise turned out quite well for the most part. You seem to be getting pretty comfortable with the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder and your linework is looking quite confident here. Nice job. Most of your box constructions here are pretty good but I do see some wonky ones so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.
Overall this was a well done submission. I think your line quality and confidence showed some nice improvement and your ellipses are coming along well. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey very well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work!
Next Steps:
The 250 Box Challenge
Hi Rob!
Thank you for your feedback!
I will keep these mistakes in mind, that you pointed out. I'm glad I can continue with the 250 challenge, I will try my best on it.
Thanks again, have a nice day!
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