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1:46 PM, Thursday February 22nd 2024
Welcome and congratulations on finishing the first lesson of Drawabox! I'm Mada and I'll be taking a look at your submission.
Overall you did a great job here, but I do have a bit to mention so let's break them down one by one. I'll write the most important things in bold.
Lines
Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. Ghosted lines look correctly ghosted and confident too, and there are barely any arching. You've also demonstrated the same confidence in your ghosted planes, and while there are still a bit of arching and wobbliness to them, it's relatively minor and will get better as you get more practice in your warmups. Just don't forget to prioritize confidence over accuracy.
Ellipses
Now with the tables of ellipses, you've demonstrated a great understanding of the concept in executing confident ellipses. The ellipses in planes are nice, you drew it confidently and snugly in their respective planes.
The funnels are also looking great; you've managed to fit them snugly and aligned to the minor axis and carried the same confidence as in previous exercises. I have no complaints here as your ellipses will tighten as you get more practice.
Boxes
The plotted perspective has no problems, you've shown a good understanding of how to make 2 point perspective. I do see two vertical lines that are not completely vertical, but perhaps it's just an accident on your end. Just want to mention that all vertical lines should be perpendicular to the horizon in 2 point perspective, in case you missed that.
You've applied the ghosting method and lines extension correctly for the rough perspective, although you did get a bit more arches here than before, so be more aware of it. Aside from a few mishaps, you also drew the front/back faces rectangular, which is correct for 1 point perspective.
Now with your rotated boxes, it's still largely incompletely. You're still missing 14 boxes to draw, as shown as in the example here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/21/example. I know that this is probably the most difficult exercise in this lesson and we're throwing you into the depths here, but please take your time and complete the rest of the boxes. You don't have to complete them in one sitting either; do them in several days if you have to. Otherwise, I can't help giving you a feedback here.
Finally, organic perspective looks pretty good. They look like they belong in the same page and the lines converge as they move farther away from the viewer. Some of the boxes do look skewed and others are missing some lines that make them not look like boxes. Give yourself more time if needed to think through the planning phase of your lines (during which you place the various points of the boxes). You'll have plenty of chance to experiment with them in the 250 box challenge, but do keep that in mind as you progress through them.
While I think you've grasped the concepts of the whole lesson, I still need you to complete the rotated boxes exercise. Remember that it's encouraged to finish every exercise to the utmost of your abilities, and take your time with it if needed. Once you're done, you'll most likely be able to continue into the box challenge.
Next Steps:
Finish the rotated boxes exercise, refer to the example provided if you're not sure as to which boxes are missing.
2:16 PM, Thursday February 22nd 2024
Thank you so much!!! I really appreciate your feedback. I'll assume I rushed for some reason and that's why I missed those 14 boxes. I'll take my time like you recommended. Thanks again
6:33 PM, Friday February 23rd 2024
6:34 PM, Friday February 23rd 2024
1:55 AM, Saturday February 24th 2024
Congrats on completing them! You've done a decent job here. While you've correctly used the neighboring elements to deduce the next orientation of boxes, I think you could've done more with the rotations.
It's very common for students to confuse rotation with convergence of the boxes. When rotating our boxes, at least one of the boxes' sets of parallel edges will have its vanishing point move - frequently it'll be two. If our boxes have the same vanishing point, then they're not rotating. (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/21/notrotating)
Then again this is a hard exercise by itself so don't think too much about it for now. I'm looking forward to your improvement in the 250 box challenge!
Next Steps:
Move onto the 250 box challenge.
Do the lesson 1 exercises as your regular warmup and don't forget your 50% rule art.
3:01 AM, Saturday February 24th 2024
That was definetly challenging. I could tell I wasn't doing it correctly, clearly, lol. Thanks for your help
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