At this point, Imgur is no good as the second acount, the same thing happened. So I'll use a googledrive link instead. Get the word out to our Drawabox users that Imgur is no longer a stable option or something is up wiht the site and to use it at their own risks.
Hello, I think you did good overall, although I would like to highlight a few key points that I think you will greatly benefit from.
FORM INTERSECTIONS
Better line muscle memory happens overtime- be sure to take extra steps during any warm-ups to maximize your abilities during a lesson!
-Intersections can be misleading
It is sometimes hard to tell if some objects are intersecting with others or not- and some intersections do not follow their respective forms. Take an example that is on 2nd page- the middle cylinder and the box. The curved lines at their intersection give illusion that that the box's face has bumps, when the edges drawn give the illusion that that box's face is flat- two ideas that are in contradiction with one-another, something that we want to avoid.
Try to visualize these objects by problem-solving. Questions that have helped me in my attempts are, "What would these objects look like when they intersect with one-another?", or, "What would the edges sitting in-between the two look like?"
Understanding that a curved object may create a rounded edge is good, but you can go further by understanding how that curved object interacts with another object in 3-D. What may help you is utilizing a 3-D software and re-creating some of your clusters of forms and paying attention to how they interact when they intersect. This may give you a better idea of what's going on so that you will be able to imagine it yourself with some practice.
CONSTRUCTION EXERCISES
These might be a little more nit-picky, but I still believe I have a couple of noteworthy points to talk about.
I'm not sure what your reference looks like, but I think you got a little confused with the orientation of your handle. It's bottom half looks to be tilting towards the viewer, while its top half looks to be in-line with the cup itself.
Good job with sticking to what you've drawn and making the form work with itself well. Although the cylinder doesn't stay within the square planes, the handle intersects well with what you have drawn.
Small perspective errors within dividing lines. A little more planning with lines may be helpful to consider.
Small perspective errors within square planes. The back of the bottom plane doesn't make too much sense within the context of the form. I also noticed a lot of guesswork within your circles. Always remind yourself about how circles can be encapsulated by a square-shaped plane. Since you went outside of the planes you created, the circles feel a little loose- not something you want when attempting to clearly construct an object.
Both have small perspective errors, present at the back of the stick and within the handle of the pot, respectively.
Better utilize slightly thicker line work to separate the form from the construction tools (boxes, planes, dividing lines, etc.) on the page. It can be unclear what remains a construction tool and what remains a form. Making a form read well is just as important as constructing it well, I think.
The drawing seems to not follow orthographic drawing. The orientation of top part of soap handle seems to be different, and the little bulging forms on side seem to only be present on some parts of the drawing, and fade into obscurity in others.
Like before, better utilize line work to define form. Sometimes it is a little unclear where the edges of the form are, especially near the upper back of the stapler.
All-in-all, I think you have a decent grasp on what the lesson was trying to teach you. You are understanding how to look at objects and naturally and convincingly re-CONSTRUCT (NOT draw) them! I implore you to further improve your skills in perspective and form knowledge. I will mark this as complete, as I feel as if you understand the gist of the lesson, but please explore ideas relating to cleaner line work, better relating forms to one-another in space, and a clear (and cohesive) sense of perspective to further improve your mechanics in drawing.
Next Steps:
**- Explore ideas relating to PERSPECTIVE, LINE WORK, AND FORM KNOWLEDGE (could be about intersections!).
Take your time, and be careful! **
Thank you for taking time to review and for thinking I'm ready to move on. Originally it was suggested I do lesson 6 to help with figure drawing and I quickly saw why. I was very much prepared to do revisions as I've had to do that for most of the lessons and challenges. So getting this pass on the first try (Even if there's areas to improve), is a wonderful thing to hear.
I do apologize the ref images are missing. This is because Imgur goofed up. Either I did something or it was on them, but the original submission with those refs on gets a 404 error. I had delted the ref images by then so the drawings were all I had left. Thankfully I didn't have to start all over again.
So cleaning up lines and things, I feel is much easier to do digitally, luckily which these lessons can be applied to. it's harder with traditional for sure.
For form intesection, keeping it 3d on all sides, I think I know what I can implment to help with in terms of the 3d program, in addition to getting practice. After all, this is the first time art wise I had to think about constructing stuff at all.
As for in general with objects, the key was to keep going and trying to make it work, never starting over, which is probably why the things came out as they did, even with mistakes. I found out later, it got easier to do with these objects, some of which are digital that I posted in the discord, having things be much better than anything I had attempted before. Though I feel having the original ref images could have helped as one of the objects was a staple remover. And using thicker lines to help define the outermost form and thiner lines for construciton has also been used as well in the digital sense.
So final thoughts; again thank you for reviewing this, and I feel with what I'll be doing next will cover the suggestions you gave so I can imrpove and get better.
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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