Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

6:15 AM, Wednesday March 11th 2020

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This's my first time posting here and looking for feedback. There's a bit of a gap between when I did these exercises and when I'm posting them. Now that I've got my account setup here, I'll make sure I post them at the end of each lesson or challenge. I'm looking forward to getting back on with DrawABox, so thanks for taking a look + for any advice given : )

I've made a few comments in the album, but I'll copy+paste them here too for reference.

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Funnels - Part 1. I spread the funnels exercise across two pages. I drew them a bit big and only fit 6 on the first page, so I did one more page to reach the number drawn in the example.

Rotated Boxes - Part One. This was my first attempt at the rotated boxes exercise, but I wasn't happy with it. I knew I could do a better job of it and gave it another go the next day.

Rotated Boxes - Part 2. Second attempt. Still very flawed of course, but I learned a lot more from it this time around. I was struggling to find where the vanishing points should go at first, but by the end of it I feel like I had the gist of it down. At the very least, it's an improvement over the first attempt.

Organic Perspective Pg. 1. I definitely had some trouble with foreshortening here. I still wasn't sure where to be visualising the vanishing points at first. The far bottom right box here is probably the clearest example. I think I had the two 'closer' horizontal lines converging too steeply. The vanishing point would have been only a centimeter or two away from the boxes edge. By the end of the next page I had it down a bit better, but I need more work at this for sure. 250 box challenge should help sort that out. : )

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8:51 PM, Wednesday March 18th 2020

Self-critique is great, but it's best to keep it to yourself and compare it to the feedback you receive. That way you avoid situations where your feedback causes others to limit what they address (if you've mentioned something already, one might not feel like it is necessary to address that exercise at all, in which case other issues could be overlooked).

Also, it looks like you only linked a single page - a page of your super imposed lines - rather than the whole album. For what it's worth, the superimposed lines are looking fine, and you're drawing them confidently, maintaining a nice, smooth trajectory... but you're definitely going to want to try posting your full album again.

2:20 AM, Tuesday April 21st 2020

Hey, thank you for taking the time to respond! I ended up getting critique on another website and completely forgot to come back and check here, so I've only just read your response.That part about self critique is definitely true, and I hadn't thought of it like that before. I tend to do that before sharing my work - out of self consciousness I guess, hahah. But I hadn't thought about how it could limit the feedback I might receive.

Sorry for the slow reply, and Thank you for the response. That's definitely advice I needed to hear.

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3:22 PM, Thursday October 12th 2023

there is only a page with Superimposed Lines

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