Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

8:12 PM, Tuesday May 17th 2022

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Hello :)

This is my attempt at lesson 1. It's taken me three weeks to complete. I really have tried to take my time and follow along with all the videos / read the text.

Thank you so much for creating this content, I could see an improvement in my drawing after just reading lesson 0. I have been drawing my whole life but I've never studied in this way before and it's just wonderful to do so.

All the best,

Grace

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9:48 PM, Tuesday May 17th 2022

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 are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. 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/1/14/notaligned Not a big problem but 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 although you were supposed to fully extend your depth lines to the vp's. I'm not going to assign a revision because this was well done otherwise and this exercise isn't that critical anyways but please make sure you fully follow the instructions for all exercises as you will be assigned revisions in the future for not doing so. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. It's great that you are keeping up with the confident linework on these. You are also doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice. One thing that can help you a bit when doing a one point perspective exercise like this is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be perpendicular(straight up and down in this case) to the horizon line. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.

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. You are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/notrotating 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 pretty for the most part but you do seem to be relying pretty heavily on parallel lines for your box constructions which is leading to some weird divergences in places. The 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you in developing a better understanding of how box lines need to converge to vps.

Overall this was a really solid submission that showed a nice deal of growth. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along nicely. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work!

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
5:46 AM, Wednesday May 18th 2022

Thank you so much! I agree with all your feedback and I will make sure to focus on those points where relevant in the 250 box challenge.

I do need to work on not thinking that I know better or can do something quickly, I think the lessons have done a great job already at humbling me quite a bit and ensuring I am following the instructions but I am going to buckle down and focus even more for the next challenge.

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