Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

5:38 PM, Wednesday April 20th 2022

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About the materials used for these exercises: I started to work on these exercises without having the correct tools sadly. I used a red 0.5 mm fineliner instead of a black one as well as a black 1.0 mm fineliner instead of a 0.5 one. I also did a few of the exercises on A3 paper instead of A4. If at all possible I would like to ask you to overlook this as long as I didn‘t do something fundamentally wrong in the drawings themselves. I wanted to start as soon as possible to get invested while I had the motivation to do so and switched to the proper tools as soon as they arrived in the mail.I promise I will use the correct materials from here on out but I really hope that alone is not reason enough to make me redo the whole thing as I cannot count how many times I have done such basic exercises and it took me a lot to do them yet again (this I wanted to use the motivation I felt at the time)

I also thought at some point that I had lost my page of funnels and redrew them. When I started to take the photos however I found it again and in the end uploaded both pages since I already drew them. I hope that is not an issue. Other than that I really look forward to your criticism and sorry for the lengthy text right on the first upload.

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4:24 AM, Saturday April 23rd 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 huge problem but this is something you should always start considering when drawing your ellipses. The second page does seem improved in this regard. Your ellipses are off to a great start but there's always still room for improvement when it comes to ellipses 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. 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 pretty well. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also 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 (mainly on the right side you are getting at least a slight rotation on the other sides) 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. Your box constructions are really solid for the most part and you already seem to have a good understanding of how box lines need to converge to vp's. The 250 box challenge should not be much a problem for you. Good job.

Overall this was a really solid submission that showed a nice deal of growth. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along nicely. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work!

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
10:25 PM, Tuesday April 26th 2022

Hi Rob,

Thank you so much for your feedback and for letting the slightly different pens I used slide this time. I will be looking forward to your comments on the 250 boxes challenge ????

11:38 PM, Tuesday April 26th 2022

We generally let whatever pens people have available be used for lesson one submissions. You will need the correct size fineliners for future lesson submissions though. There is a different TA that handles the 250 box challenge so I bid goodbye to you here. Good luck!

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