Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

3:11 PM, Thursday February 22nd 2024

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Hi! I present to you my first set of homework. I lost 1 page of ghosted lines and 1 page of funnels in the process, I am now keeping my homework organized in a folder so that it does not happen again. In general I've been having a lot of fun and I can already see improvements in the quality of my lines and my perception of objects in a 3d space, it feels very nice to perceive your own progress as you go. I'm feeling motivated and looking forward to what comes next.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to check my homework and provide feedback!

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10:36 AM, Friday February 23rd 2024

I'm sorry that you lost your pages, but considering I need to look at every exercise to determine your understanding, I'll need you to redo the pages you miss (which is 1 page of ghosted lines and 1 page of tables of ellipses, not the funnels exercise).

I took a look at your submission and I do think you're most likely good to go, but I need to see the missing ones to make sure. Think of it like extra practice, as you'll do it later anyway in your warmups.

Next Steps:

  1. One (1) page of ghosted lines exercise

  2. One (1) page of tables of ellipses exercise

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
4:51 PM, Monday February 26th 2024

Hey! Thanks for the answer.

I've already finished the revisions and uploaded them to the same imgur album, they are at the bottom:

https://imgur.com/a/UiaLRK2

11:28 AM, Tuesday February 27th 2024

Congratulations on finishing the first lesson of Drawabox! Overall you did a great job here, but I do have a bit to mention so let's break them down one by one. I'll write the most important things in bold.

Lines

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. Ghosted lines look correctly ghosted and confident too, and there are barely any arching. You've also demonstrated the same confidence in your ghosted planes with a great accuracy. Nothing much to say except keep up the good work!

Ellipses

Now with the tables of ellipses, you've demonstrated a great understanding of the concept in executing confident ellipses. The funnels also look great; you've managed to fit them snugly and aligned to the minor axis and carried the same confidence as in your tables of ellipses.

However, I saw that confidence faded in your ellipses in planes. While you did draw them snugly in the planes, you also ended up with some robotic-looking ellipses here and there, which can result from hesitation or a limitation on your pivot (like using your wrist instead). A confident execution leads to an evenly shaped ellipse, whereas hesitation leads to wobbling and uneven shapes just as it does for our lines. The fact that this is only visible in this exercise can mean that you're trying to hit all sides of the planes that you're forgetting to confidently ghost the ellipses. Remember, prioritize confidence over accuracy.

Also a quick reminder to not draw through your ellipses too much, as you did here a few times. 2-3 times is enough. Trying to correct your initial lines with more lines is not a good way to practice your confidence. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/tablesofellipses/drawingthrough

Boxes

The plotted perspective has no problems, you've shown a good understanding of how to make 2 point perspective.

You've applied the ghosting method and lines extension correctly for the rough perspective. You also drew the front/back faces rectangular, which is correct for 1 point perspective.

As the notoriously most difficult exercise in this lesson, you've done a great job at doing the rotated boxes. You've rotated them pretty well (while making sure to move the converging lines) and used neighboring elements to deduce the next orientation of boxes, which is the whole purpose of this exercise.

Finally, organic perspective looks great as well. They look like they belong in the same page and the lines converge as they move farther away from the viewer. There are a few hiccups here and there where there are divergences that results in skewed boxes, but overall they're minor and they look pretty solid. Plus you'll get plenty of chance to experiment

Anyway, while you can practice more with your confidence in the ellipses in planes exercise, I think you've grasped the concepts of the whole lesson and ready to put them into practice in warmups. Again, congratulations and keep up the good work!

Next Steps:

Move onto the 250 box challenge.

Do the lesson 1 exercises as your regular warmup and don't forget your 50% rule art.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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