Allright! Did lesson 1 excerices now. Rotated boxes was hard. I did it 3 times to make it look even a bit like it supposed to be. Organic boxes was challenge to me too. It was hard to understand do I use 1 or 2 or 3 point perspective, I'm not sure did I made it right.
Hi there, TA Meta here to look over your work, so let's start with your superimposed lines, which are looking nice and straight and confident. You've made a point of lining up your pen with the starting point, which limits fraying to one end of the line, this is great to see. Your ghosted lines and planes follow this same trend of solid, confident linework and I don't have a whole lot to say about them.
Next are your tables of ellipses which are looking great. You've packed them in there nice and tightly and the ellipses you've drawn are confident and well shaped. Onto your ellipses in planes now and these are slightly weaker as you've sacrificed a little of that wonderful confident flow for accuracy, which has resulted in some of your ellipses being a bit lumpy/pointy in places. We want to emphasis confident linework over accuracy as a confident, inaccurate line can be redeemed far more easily than an accurate but wobbly one. Finally, your funnels are off to a good start, with the majority of your ellipses correctly aligned to the minor axis. There are a few that are skewed off with perhaps the most obvious being the end ellipses on the funnel in the upper-mid right of the page.
Onto your rough perspective now and you've done quite a good job keeping your horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line... on the front plane at least. On the back plane, I can clearly see some confidence issues working their way in, especially on the verticals, so make sure you're planning and executing each and every line with confidence. In terms of the back planes, remember that they, like the front planes, have two of their vanishing points at infinity - never to converge or touch the horizon line.
Next up, you've taken a good run at the rotated boxes, with the gaps between your boxes nice and tight and your linework looking really confident. In terms of rotation, you haven't quite managed to rotate your boxes all the way, tending more to elongate the box along the same vanishing point as its predecessor, rather than having the vanishing point slide along the axis. That said, these final two exercises are here to challenge you and introduce you to a new concept that you may not have otherwise contemplated.
Finally, your organic perspective started off really rough. I'm not sure what was going on here, but it seemed like you forgot yourself a little on that first page in terms of planning and line confidence. This tightened up significantly on the second page, which resulted in some pretty cool compositions that convey a good sense of scale with the variation in the size of your boxes. The boxes themselves are showing some signs of divergence however this is something you can work on correcting in the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
Keep planning and keep up the level of confident linework that I know you're capable of and I think you'll get a lot out of Drawabox. Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge.
Thanks Meta for good critique! I found it helpful for real.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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