Hi there!
First off, a huge congrats on completing Level 1! I'll try to make this brief so you can move on asap :)
Lines
Superimposed Lines - Your lines look good! Good meaning that the stroke was confident and smoothly drawn without hesitation from the start to finish. I will note that in the second page, you have some fraying on both ends of the stroke, so I would recommend you take an extra second to line up your pen before you start your stroke in warmups. Fraying on the far end is okay, but not on both ends. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/superimposedlines/fraying
Ghosted Lines - Generally speaking your lines here are solid. There is a bit of wobbling and arcing on some of them, so something that could help with that, apart from just more mileage, is to consciously try to arc your lines the opposite way. But always remember that a confident stroke comes first, after that we can work on our accuracy.
Ghosted Planes - Even when we bumped complexity up a bit, you still took the time to ghost each stroke and also try out both long and short strokes. Nicely done! Here there is also a bit or arcing in the lines, so for warmups you might want to try the suggestion above in ghosted lines.
Ellipses
In general, your ellipses have some wobble to them. This is hard and something I personally still struggle with as well. We should always prioritize having a smooth stroke and even shapes over the accuracy. So confident markmaking first, then how snugly they fit :) This is one of the core fundamental skills we are trying to learn in DaB - how to make thoughtful and confident marks, which generally will make your artwork more convincing than an accurate, but kind of wobbly art. That said, in your Ellipses in Planes homework, and Table of Ellipses, you drew through your ellipses twice, they generally fit pretty snugly, and you tried out different sizes! This is definitely a pass! Oh, I forgot Funnels xD Your funnels line up nicely to the central minor axis line. The ellipses themselves will improve in warmups!
Boxes
For your Plotted Perspective, you used a ruler, and show a solid understanding of the lesson. Here for your hatching, the lines don't always reach the end, so that might be something to look out for.
Rough Perspective looks clean. Your boxes in the front and back are rectangular and they are plotted back correctly to the vanishing point.
Rotating Boxes - You followed the steps and completed and drew through ALL the boxes. Nicely done!
Organic Perspective - Your boxes are rotating here. Some of them looked a bit rushed in terms of hatching and some lines look redrawn. Some of the boxes have a bit more dramatic foreshortening, which we want to avoid because it takes away from the illusion of them gradually getting farther away from us. All in all, nice work and see if you can give your hatching a bit more time, we're in no rush here :)
Congrats again on completing Lesson 1! I'm going to go ahead and mark this lesson as complete. Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions about any of this :) Also, good to see you in the Discord, it's a valuable place to get help from other boxers :)
Next Steps:
Go ahead and drop all these exercises into your warmup pool https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/3/warmups and head on over to the 250 box challenge! Don't forget your 50% :)
Good luck with boxes!
Thank you very much for the feedback!
Now onto the boxes...
Of course :) Be sure to check in the discord if you have any questions. You've shown a lot of dedication by getting through Level 1, now go conquer those boxes one at a time!
Where the rest of my recommendations tend to be for specific products, this one is a little more general. It's about printer paper.
As discussed in Lesson 0, printer paper (A4 or 8.5"x11") is what we recommend. It's well suited to the kind of tools we're using, and the nature of the work we're doing (in terms of size). But a lot of students still feel driven to sketchbooks, either by a desire to feel more like an artist, or to be able to compile their work as they go through the course.
Neither is a good enough reason to use something that is going to more expensive, more complex in terms of finding the right kind for the tools we're using, more stress-inducing (in terms of not wanting to "ruin" a sketchbook - we make a lot of mistakes throughout the work in this course), and more likely to keep you from developing the habits we try to instill in our students (like rotating the page to find a comfortable angle of approach).
Whether you grab the ream of printer paper linked here, a different brand, or pick one up from a store near you - do yourself a favour and don't make things even more difficult for you. And if you want to compile your work, you can always keep it in a folder, and even have it bound into a book when you're done.
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