5:58 PM, Tuesday April 6th 2021
Welcome to drawabox. Let’s take this one exercise at a time, shall we?
Your superimposed lines look mostly good. They’re smooth, and properly lined up at the start, but not always of a consistent trajectory, and I was a little sad to see you hadn’t tried out any arcing/wavy lines, as per the instructions. The ghosted lines are missing, it seems… The planes look good, however: smooth and straight.
The table of ellipses exercise is great. Your ellipses are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. You’ve kept their angles/degrees consistent in a frame, but not tried out as many as we’d like. It’s mostly the same angle, and the same 3 degrees repeating over and over. The ellipses in planes are nicely done. They maintain their prior smoothness/roundness, despite these more complicated frames. They do a good job of fitting within them, too. The funnels, too, look good, but be sure to extend the minor axis all the way, please. And, of course, do this before you draw your ellipses. An ellipse aligned to nothing is of no use to us.
The plotted perspective exercise looks clean – nicely done.
Save for the occasional instance of automatic reinforcing (resist the urge to correct an incorrect line!), the rough perspective exercise is well done. Still, some more planning, especially with those further off points, would improve your convergences by a lot, so consider it.
The rotated boxes exercise looks fantastic. Not all of the boxes rotate as much as they should, but they’re snug, and properly drawn through. Their far planes are solid, and though their depth lines will sometimes diverge, this is something that’s completely normal, now that you’re relying exclusively on neighboring edges to construct them. As you progress through the box challenge, and learn more about what makes a box, feel free to come back to this, and make some of your own decisions regarding them, too.
The organic perspective exercise is really well done, too. The boxes are at risk of being dramatic, but their sheer number, many overlaps, and proper increase in size do a lot to communicate their flow, either way.
Next Steps:
Solid work on this submission. I’m marking it as complete, so head on over to the box challenge.