Hi, I’ll be reviewing your work today. Congrats on completing this huge challenge. You made it!
General Notes
In general, you did a really good job of following the instructions. You are clearly ghosting your lines, you are drawing through all of your boxes, and your line extensions are properly applied.
First 50
Great job here! I can see that you marked your vanishing points on the page! For the most part, your box construction actually looks pretty good for the first 50. There are some instances where the lines diverge instead of converging, like box 38 and box 41. But again, you seem to be really good at working with visible vanishing points.
Next 50
Great work in creating shallow foreshortening! Here’s where things can definitely feel challenging. In some boxes (like 67, 71, 73, and 80), I noticed that the lines are converging in pairs. In some boxes (like 71, 73, and 77), I also noticed that lines are diverging instead of converging. Remember that all lines should converge to the same point. So, there should be no pairs and no diverging lines. Also, this seemed to be a less frequent issue, but in some boxes (like 56 and 62), I noticed that some lines are parallel. Try your best to make sure that all lines converge.
Last 150
I noticed that your box construction definitely improved here! I noticed fewer instances of pair convergence and fewer instances of diverging and parallel lines. However, there are still examples of this happening. For example, lines converged in pairs in boxes 197 and 200. There were diverging lines in boxes 201, 204, and 214. Overall though, you seem to understand what to aim for.
I did notice that in the last 150, you tended to focus more on rapid foreshortening than shallow foreshortening. While it is a good to practice rapid foreshortening, it is highly likely that shallow foreshortening will be much more useful to you in your drawings. So, I would recommend that you actually focus on making boxes with shallow foreshortening for your next few warmups. I would challenge you to make sure that the convergence points are far off the page when you do this.
Conclusion
I think you have a good enough understanding of this exercise and are ready to move on to the next step! Make sure to add freely rotated boxes with line extensions as an exercise to your warmup pool. And again, I would recommend that you do this warmup soon and focus on shallow foreshortening.
If you feel like you're really struggling, you can also try drawing boxes in a different way. Here's an example: https://imgur.com/a/DHlA3Jh
Good luck with lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Add this exercise to your warmups and move on to Lesson 2!
Excellent! Thanks a lot. I will focuse on shallow foreshortening in warmups. Thanks a lot again!
A lot of folks have heard about Scott Robertson's "How to Draw" - it's basically a classic at this point, and deservedly so. It's also a book that a lot of people struggle with, for the simple reason that they expect it to be a manual or a lesson plan explaining, well... how to draw. It's a reasonable assumption, but I've found that book to be more of a reference book - like an encyclopedia for perspective problems, more useful to people who already have a good basis in perspective.
Sketching: The Basics is a far better choice for beginners. It's more digestible, and while it introduces a lot of similar concepts, it does so in a manner more suited to those earlier in their studies.
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