Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
2:54 PM, Friday October 25th 2024
The ghosted planes and ellipses in planes are on the same sheet.
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1:54 AM, Sunday November 3rd 2024
Hi! Sorry to keep you waiting so long! This took a bit longer than expected to write, since I had to go to a rehearsal. Anyways, let's dive right into it and get started :)
Lines
Superimposed lines - You experimented with a nice variety of different lengths. There is a lot of wobble in the first page, but the second page shows a lot more confidence in your strokes which helped get rid of some of the wobbliness. The fraying on the side is expected and will improve with repetition :) It would have been nice if you filled in the second page a bit more.
Ghosted lines - You have some really nicely ghosted lines here. It started out with a few wobbling lines, but the strokes became confident and fairly straight. The long line in the middle is very nice! There is a lot of overshooting the end point, or not quite hitting it, so see if you can take your lines to the next level https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ghostedlines/levels
Ghosted Planes - You have a nice variety of different planes here with some wobbling on the shorter lines. It looks a bit rushed compared to the previous homework. I hope I don't get shot for saying this, but maybe if you tried mixing your confident movements with a bit firmer pen pressure, you'd get a nice looking confident stroke. It looks like you can draw confident straight lines, but the light line weight compared to the dots makes the line look hesitant.
Ellipses
Tables of Ellipses - This exercise is tough! Same as the ghosted lines, in this exercise we also want to prioritize a smooth and confident ellipse over one that fits perfectly, but wobbles a lot. While ghosting, we're planning an ellipse that fits snugly, but once we start drawing, we prioritize that confident stroke. It's okay if it didn't end up falling where it was planned it to go, that will improve with practice. You can draw a straight line, so I know you can also draw ellipses confidently :) https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ellipsesinplanes/deformed
Ellipses in Planes - There are a few ellipses in the first page that were floating and not touching all four sides of the plane https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ellipsesinplanes/floating Otherwise, keep prioritizing a confident stroke which will help with the wobble and unevenness. You've got this!
Funnels - You drew through your ellipses and they touch the sides of the funnels. Take your time to ghost the ellipses and see if you can get the angle of the minor axises to align https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/funnels/notaligned
Boxes
Plotted Perspective - Looks great! You used a ruler and kept your vertical lines perpendicular to the horizon line. All your lines point back to the two vanishing points. Nice work!
Rough Perspective - You've got both pages and the lines are extended correctly. Some of the faces of the boxes get skewed a bit (for the front and back face of boxes, the lines are always going to be exactly vertical or horizontal) so going forward that might be something to keep an eye on. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/roughperspective/guessing
Rotated Boxes - You did pretty well here and have some nice rotating boxes. You've got tight and consistent gaps, your boxes rotate, and you drew through the boxes. The only thing is that we are missing boxes from the set (top left corner box, 3 boxes from the top right corner, bottom row of boxes). https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/21/step8
Organic Boxes - These look good! Your lines also show a lot of improvement from the beginning of the lesson!
Congrats on getting to the end of Lesson 1! There are two things I need to ask you to do, and then you'll be ready to move on to the 250 box challenge!
Next Steps:
Before we hop on to the 250 Box Challenge, please do the following:
1) Please complete the Rotated Boxes homework. No need to redo a new sheet, just fill in the missing boxes!
2) Please fill in half a page of either the Ellipses in Planes or Tables of Ellipses. You can pick whichever one you prefer. The main thing I'm looking for here, is that you prioritize confidence over accuracy in your ellipses. Just like with ghosted lines, it's okay if things don't fit perfectly snugly, but they do need to be drawn smoothly and confidently.
When you're done, please reply here with pictures, and you should be good to head on over to the next challenge! Let me know if you have any questions!
11:19 PM, Sunday November 10th 2024
Finished rotated boxes and 1/2 table of ellipses
Thank you. Sorry for the delay myself, the week has been busy. Hopefully this is more correct and I think it will be.
6:50 PM, Monday November 11th 2024
This is great! Your ellipses look so smooth and evenly shaped and there is no wobble or deformed shapes. The accuracy will come later with practice.
The rotated boxes also look good.
I'm going to mark this lesson as complete, congrats on all the effort you've put into this :D
Next Steps:
Congrats on completing Lesson 1! You are now free to move on to the 250 box challenge! These exercises now go into your warmup pool (https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/3/warmups) and don't forget your 50%
Good luck with boxes!
2:05 AM, Tuesday November 12th 2024
Hurray! I have improved a lot since the first lesson. Time to tackle the 250 box, one day at a time.
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