I did two rotated boxes. Just now when checking off the pages I realized it should've been only one. Hope that's not a problem, but rather than not showing one I thought I should just upload both.
Man those organic perspective boxes sure kicked my butt. Toughest of them all and it looked rather simple when reading through the exercise, but doing it is something completely different.
Hi Stundex,
Superimposed Lines: Lines done with confidence which is good, but be careful to align your pen to the line's starting point to minimize fraying. It looks good overall.
Ghosted Lines: Looks good, but some of them slightly arching, be aware about that and try keeping the lines straight.
Ghosted Planes: Same with ghosted lines.
Table of Elipses: Accuracy is good and the elipses fit tightly, but some of them is wobbly. You should prioritize smoothness over accuracy, make sure you ghosting sufficiently and draw confidently. Also draw around the ellipse two or three times before lifting your pen. Two is ideal, but three is also acceptable. More than that is excessive, and excessive is not good, try to avoid that.
Elipses in Planes: The elipses are less wobbly and you draw it more confidently, nice. There are some elipses with excessive line though, you should try to avoid that.
Funnels: The elipses aligned nicely, good work. Watch out for wobbly elipses.
Plotted Perspective: Looks really great.
Rough Perspective: Some of the lines wobble a bit, make sure to plan and ghost your line sufficiently and draw it confidently. Everything else is good. Nice job.
Rotated Perspective: Some of the lines wobble a bit here too. Other than that, it looks really clean and the boxes rotated nicely.
Organic Perspective: Some of the lines wobble a bit here as well. There are a few perspective issue such as lines not converging, but you can refine that in 250 box challenge.
Congratulations for completing lesson 1! Glhf next :)
Next Steps:
Do the 250 box challenge.
Do the exercises from lesson 1 (such as ghosted lines and especially elipses) as 10-15 min warm up before drawing.
thanks so much, I totally see all the problems you addressed and will practice some more. Thanks :)
Hello,
I agree with previous critique. Overall, your submission is pretty good. However, I noticed your temptation to make some parts of lesson look more “pretty” by using thicker pen and colours. Drawabox lessons are about learning and not to impress somebody. So I would suggest sticking to the homework instructions as closely as possible and take pictures before making them more “pretty”.
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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