Welcome to Drawabox and congrats on finishing lesson 1! I’ll be reviewing your homework today.
Lines.
Superimposed lines: Wow, these look great! The lines only fray at one end, and they look smooth and confident. Good work!
Ghosted lines: For the most part these look awesome too. I did notice that for some of your lines, you missed both the start and the endpoint. While it’s expected that you’ll often miss the end, you are allowed to find & place your pen at the starting point before drawing the line, so you shouldn’t miss the first point! Make sure to take your time with this in the future.
Ghosted planes: Looks good here as well. I did notice that some of your lines here curve slightly towards the end, as if you’re correcting course to meet the endpoint. This is not necessary, and you should just be more confident in your trajectory! For curving at the beginning of the line, you can try to fix this by drawing faster and not pressing down too hard.
Ellipses.
Table of ellipses: Good job! Most of your ellipses are drawn between 2 and 3 times, and they often touch each other without overlapping. Some of your ellipses do look a little distorted; make sure that they are still the shape of an ellipse when you draw them.
Ellipses in planes: I noticed that your ellipses sometimes do not touch the sides. Additionally, you often had to distort your ellipses in order to fit them to the plane. Besides ghosting more before you commit to each ellipse, I would suggest that you try to fit the ellipses diagonally in the planes rather than horizontally, as that should make it a little easier to touch all 4 edges. Otherwise looking good!
Funnels: Well done on the majority of your funnels. There are a few (For example, top & bottom left) where the minor axes of some ellipses do not align with the line down the middle of the funnel, and the ellipses are not split into symmetrical halves. So just watch out for that in the future!
Boxes.
Plotted perspective: Looks good!
Rough perspective: Good job, looks like you followed all the instructions well, and your boxes look clean and confident. Don’t worry too much about the perspective errors as this exercise is all about recognizing them to help you prepare for more perspective work down the line.
Rotated boxes: These look really good! Besides some trouble rotating the corner boxes, I would say you’ve completed this exercise perfectly. Good linework, good perspectives, and good shading!
Organic perspective: Great work once again! Your lines are clean, and you followed instructions well. I see that you’ve tried a variety of different angles for the “Y”-shaped setup, and I encourage you to continue exploring different angles and how they change the faces of the box during the 250 boxes challenge.
Conclusion: Really nice job! Your work looks great despite the fact that you claim to be a beginner. Hopefully you didn’t have to grind (aka repeat exercises over and over) to get here, as I’d love to see your future work and would hate for you to burn out from overexerting yourself. It does seem like you’ve been following the 50% rule though, so keep on doing that! Also, I recommend that you keep some of the lesson 1 exercises in a pool of warmups you can draw from when starting later lessons.
Next Steps:
Good job! You are ready for the 250 Boxes Challenge.
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