3:18 PM, Thursday September 2nd 2021
Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these pages are a bit puzzling to me. You seem like you did the exercise correctly for a few lines but then just filled the rest of your page with lines that you didn't superimpose. Your pages should look like the example page here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/example I'd actually recommend reading this section again and then I'd like you to redo these two pages and this time make sure you actually superimpose all of the lines you put down. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.
Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. Your ellipses in funnels are having some slight issues with tilting off the minor axis. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned This is something you should always start considering when drawing your ellipses. Your ellipses are off to a great start but there's still room for improvement when it comes to accuracy so keep practicing them during your warmups.
The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises are basically unfinished and will need to be redone. The biggest issue here is that you didn't draw through your boxes. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/step5 Since you didn't draw through all of your boxes you also didn't extend all of your depth lines back on your boxes to check your work. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/step6 Please make sure you check the homework assignments a bit more carefully as you will be assigned revisions in future lessons for not doing so. So I'd like you to look over the rough perspective lesson again and give these exercises another shot.
Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty well. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. While you didn't nail all of the rotations perfectly this was a good effort overall. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. Your box constructions are a mixed bag of decent constructions and some wonky ones here and there so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.
Overall this was a pretty good submission. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along very well. I think you simply misunderstood the directions for the Superimposed Lines exercise as well as the Rough Perspective Boxes Exercise so I'd like you to review the lessons materials for both of these again and give these exercises another shot. Otherwise I think you are understanding most of the materials quite well. Once you get those revisions submitted I'll take a look and you can most likely move on to the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
Two Pages Superimposed Lines Exercise - Reread this material and try this exercise again.
Two Pages Rough Perspective Exercise - Reread this material and try this exercise again. Make sure you draw through all of your boxes and extend all of your depth lines back to check your work.