For the rotated perspective: by mistake I made the second box too small and had to draw lines that overlap one another for the rest of the exercise, I wanted to redo it but then I remembered that Irshad said to not grind the exercises and finished the rest of the first lesson
Starting with your Super Imposed Lines, these are smooth and confident, but some of the long lines on the second page are fraying at both ends https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/fraying make sure you place your pen down carefully on the starting point each time.
You’ve done a good job on Ghosted Lines and Ghosted Planes, prioritising the confidence of your lines, well done.
Moving on to your Tables of Ellipses, these are smooth and confident too, and you’ve done a good job of drawing through them, so you let your pen go two times round the ellipse before lifting it off the page. I can see you’re working towards having each ellipse touch the ones next to it and the borders of the table without overlapping, and accuracy will improve with practice. Similar comments for your ellipses in planes, well done.
Looking at your Ellipses in Funnels you’ve done well to keep them smooth and confident and remembered to draw through most of them, good work. I can see you were also giving some of your ellipses a wider degree as you move outwards from the middle of your funnels, well done. Sometimes you leave little gaps between your ellipses, ideally you want to aim to have them touch without overlapping. A few of them are also a little tilted relative to the minor axis https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/notaligned so those are things you can work on when you practice this exercise in your warmups.
Moving on to your box exercises, your plotted perspective looks spot on, nothing much to say there. For your Rough Prespective you appear to have followed all the instructions to a T, and I’m you continued to use the ghosting method to plan all your lines and execute them smoothly. Remember to keep all your horizontal lines parallel to your horizon line and all of your verticals perpendicular to it, a couple of them are slightly slanted and this will make your boxes appear warped. Some of your perspective estimations landed a long way from your Vanishing Point, this is normal, and something that will improve with practice.
Looking at your Rotated Boxes this got a little bit messy but it looks like you got all the boxes in there. You have good rotation, have drawn through your boxes, and have kept the gaps between your boxes narrow and consistent, so overall it’s a pretty good job on a notoriously difficult exercise. When you add line weight, keep it subtle. Usually one super imposed line is enough. Hatching is optional and if you choose to do it please take your time, use the ghosting method and do it as neatly as you are able to.
Finishing off with your Organic Perspective, you’re doing a good job of varying the size of your boxes to give an illusion of depth within your frames. You seem able to draw them at a variety of orientations as they move through space. Your lines continue to look clean, confident and well planned, well done. Some of your box constructions have some illogical perspective, but you’ll get much more instruction and practice with this in the 250 Box Challenge, which is up next.
Overall this was a solid submission and you show a good understanding of the exercises. I think you should feel free to move on, well done.
Next Steps:
The 250 Box Challenge is next.
Thank you for the thorough critique, I haven't really noticed the fraying in the long lines until you mentioned it, I guess it was because I was too close to the paper and didn't focus on the start of the lines
and for the Organic perspective: I was almost completely lost until the last two frames. I will try to focus on thinking more about the perspective of the boxes rather than just trying to draw a box
I will try to finish the 250 boxes this time :)
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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