Hi Ronbadonski! (Really nice-sounding name, by the way) I'm Keisari(42) and I'll be the one critiquing your Lesson 1 submission today. Before we get into it, congratulations on finishing Lesson 1 and starting your journey across Drawabox! We're just getting started.
Lines
Your lines look great! I don't have much to say about your homework here as you did a great job following the instructions, but I'd like to suggest you focus more on engaging your shoulder on your warmups, as arcing is rather prominent. You could also experiment with doing your marks with greater speed, as that could potentially help with making them straighter and more confident. Additionally, keep in mind it's fine to overshoot! An overshooted line is preferable to one that shows hesitation or wobbling.
Ellipses
You're doing amazing with your ellipses! Overall, they look very smooth, even, and intentional. You did remarkably well with your Ellipses in Planes homework. Again, I think you should internalize a bit more the idea that overshooting is preferable to unconfident and deformed marks, but that's about it.
Boxes
You are repeating lines in all of your homework submissions here. The markmaking concepts presented earlier in the lesson apply to the whole course. Apart from applying line weight, you are to commit to your mistakes and not repeat any marks under any circumstances -- keep them as if they were correct and move on. Other than that, you did fine with Rough Perspective and Plotted Perspective. Mistakes in the Rotated Boxes exercise are to be expected from all students and as such you did relatively fine, but when you do it again in your future warmups, I'd like you to push the rotation harder nd think more about using neighboring edges as hints when adding new lines (As Uncomfortable explain here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/step7). Also, I'm not sure if it's a hole in your understanding or simply errors in estimating it, but just like in all other box exercises, the lines of the boxes in Organic Perspective are supposed to converge, not diverge, as happens in most of your boxes; whatever the case, I'm not gonna ask you to redo any exercises as you've shown enough understanding of the theoretical concepts presented in this Lesson, so keeping the mistakes I've pointed out in mind, you may proceed to the 250 Box Challenge!
I'm marking this lesson as complete, congratulations and good luck, it only gets harder from here.
Next Steps:
The 250 Box Challenge!
Will do. Thanks.
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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