Hi Infernodnb, congrats on finishing lesson 1!

First off, let me assure you that you made the right choice by submitting your work for critique, Drawabox is a very long course to follow and will take a lot of work, so on top of receiving valuable feedback, submitting your homework (and optionally joining the Discord server) will allow you to not work in a vacuum, which always makes it more difficult to keep up the motivation in the long run.

Also, about the fact that your homework was made digitally: I appreciate the disclaimer and you seem aware of the fact that this isn’t something you should normally do, so I’ll trust that you have your reasons. I still want to emphasize, as someone who draws both traditionally and digitally, that it does make a difference, even with the settings you chose. Also, when it comes to settings, I think that if you’re going to continue drawing digitally for future lessons you should also disable the pressure sensitivity, because some of your lines are visibly thinner/lighter than others and there is some visible tapering. Remember that the reason it’s advised to use fineliners and not ballpoint pens is precisely because pressure should make as little a difference as possible.

With that out of the way, I’m going to critique your submission the same way I would if you had drawn everything traditionally, and relying mainly on the guide provided here: https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ

My critique will be divided in 3 sections: lines, ellipses and boxes. Let’s get started!

1. Lines section

Starting with the superimposed lines exercise, I am unfortunately seeing a lot of fraying on both ends of your lines, less so in what seems to be the first page, but a lot more on the second one (where there are the most curved lines). Fraying on one end is completely ok and will get better with practice, fraying on both ends however can be avoided by taking your time and carefully putting down your pen at the beginning of your line, so please pay attention to that in future warmups!

As for the ghosted lines exercise, your lines look confidently drawn and the dots I’m seeing indicate that you planned them correctly using the ghosting method, so good job! I can also see that you’re pushing yourself to draw really long ones – although I guess that depends on the size of your tablet: if it happens to be smaller than an A4 sheet of paper, then I don’t think you’re going to be able to practice making really large strokes as you would if you were drawing traditionally, unfortunately.

Your planes are also looking pretty good, they seem confidently drawn and are filling up the page nicely, I also appreciate the shape variations I’m seeing. I’m also seeing dots there, which indicates that you applied the ghosting method.

Your lines do get a little wobblier in the exercises involving boxes. This is perfectly normal and will get better with practice, but always remember that confidence should be prioritized over accuracy. A confident but inaccurate line will always be more correct than a wobbly but accurate one. That being said, the wobbling I’m seeing isn’t extreme and you did manage to maintain good line confidence there as well.

2. Ellipses section

Your ellipses are looking really good! You are drawing through your ellipses 2-3 times as instructed and keeping them pretty tight, so good job on that! In the table of ellipses exercise, they look confidently drawn and are nicely symmetrical for the most part. You also did a good job fitting them all snugly against one another and experimented with different sizes and degrees.

You did a good job fitting your ellipses inside your planes as well, a few of them look egg-shaped or are out of bounds, but that is to be expected and will get better with practice. It looks like you’re using the method of having the ellipse reach 2 opposite corners of the plane rather than its sides & aligning its major axis with the diagonal of the plane going through said corners already, but just for the sake of making the different approaches more explicit: https://ibb.co/album/zhKcZD

Your ellipses aren’t very well aligned with the minor axis in your ellipses in funnels exercise, so try to pay attention to that in the future. I think that you’re also definitely ready to try varying the degree of your ellipses in this exercise as well, so feel free to experiment with that in future warmups!

3. Boxes section

I’m not seeing any hatching on your boxes, which, while optional, does make submissions easier to read, so consider doing that when you move on to the 250 boxes challenge (it’s also valuable additional line practice).

In the rough perspective exercise, you managed to keep your width lines parallel to the horizon line and your height lines perpendicular to it for the most part, so good job! Your boxes do look quite shallow though and I’m not seeing much experimentation with different horizon line heights, so try constructing deeper boxes and introducing more variation in future warmups!

Good job on your rotated boxes exercise, that one’s not easy and you have a good amount of rotation in my opinion. You also kept your corners fairly close.

Good job on varying the angle and size of your boxes in the organic perspective exercise, that exercise is looking very good and gives off a strong sense of 3d. You also applied lineweight where it was relevant, keeping it subtle enough. However, remember that in this exercise all boxes should be drawn in 3 point perspective, I’m seeing a 1 point perspective box in the mix.

That’s the end of this critique! It was all in all a solid submission, so you’re free to move on to the 250 boxes challenge. At the beginning of your drawing sessions, pick 1-2 exercises from this lesson and use them for 10-15 minutes of warmups. Good luck on the rest of your drawing journey, stay motivated!