Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

12:59 PM, Tuesday August 20th 2024

DrawABox - Lesson 1 - Google Drive

DrawABox - Lesson 1 - Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MtpLEKA1rapMxdN7ZhpuyTkXQQWe4RXX

Hello! I meant to submit this much earlier but an unforeseen life event and my ADHD prevented me from doing so. As they say, "Better late than never" I suppose. Thanks!

11:28 PM, Tuesday August 20th 2024

Welcome and congratulations on finishing the first lesson of Drawabox! I'm Mada and I'll be taking a look at your submission.

Overall you did an excellent 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. However, I noticed you didn't put the start and end points when you bisect the planes horizontally and vertically. This results in floating lines, most noticeably here: https://imgur.com/a/Ud2O6tR. Do not forget to always plan your lines first when ghosting, even though you already kind of know where they should be.

Ellipses

Now with the tables of ellipses, you've demonstrated a great understanding of the concept in executing confident ellipses. The ellipses in planes are nice, you drew it confidently and snugly in their respective planes.

The funnels are also looking great; you've managed to fit them snugly and aligned to the minor axis and carried the same confidence as in previous exercises. I have no complaints here as your ellipses will tighten as you get more practice.

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.

Anyway, 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.
5:01 PM, Wednesday August 21st 2024

Thank you for your critique. I'll be sure to explicitly plan out my lines in future coursework.

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