6:23 PM, Wednesday May 4th 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, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. It's great that you are keeping up with the confident linework on these. I am noticing that you are redrawing lines on occasion and this is a habit you should try and get out of. Try and stick with the initial line you put down even if it's a bit off. Adding more lines just makes things messier and harder to read. 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 decently. One thing that would have helped you here would have been to just draw this a bit bigger. Drawing bigger really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You 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. The big issue I'm seeing here is that you are still redrawing lines a lot and this is something I'd like to take care of before you move on to the the 250 box challenge. While you have some solid box constructions here your are having a lot of convergence issues and a lot of the more wonky boxes have diverging lines so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you. Before moving on though I'd like you to do one more page of this exercise with a focus on confident linework and no redrawing lines. I think you are doing well with putting down initially confident linework but then you seem to be second guessing yourself a lot and redrawing the line because you think it needs to be corrected. I'd like you to get more used to just putting down a confident line and sticking with before moving on to the 250 box challenge.

Overall this was a really solid submission that showed a nice deal of growth. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along nicely. Other than this issue with redrawing lines I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. Once you get that revision submitted and I take a look you can most likely move on to the 250 box challenge.

Next Steps:

One page of the organic perspective exercise - Focus on confident linework. No redrawing lines or adding line weight.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
7:04 PM, Sunday May 8th 2022

Hello Rob, I'm so sorry for the late reply, I had to reorganize somethings in my life this week, thanks so much for the critic, I will take every point you made to heart and I will try to keep working on these problems whenever I do the warmups. I've completed the page you requested and I got to say that some problems still persists like the lines not converging or whenever I redo the same line but I got to say that now that I'm aware of it I don't make it as much as in the first 2 pages. Thanks you so much for your patience and have a nice afternoon.

https://imgur.com/a/tKFAe4l

8:46 PM, Sunday May 8th 2022

Lol well I guess you still couldn't resist redrawing lines in some cases here but this is a huge improvement overall. I don't expect your convergences to be perfect at this point(or ever really) and the 250 box challenge will really help with improving that. My main concern is that you can put down confident linework without constantly rethinking it which you are starting to do. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge!

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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