Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

5:39 PM, Thursday May 28th 2020

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10:51 PM, Monday June 1st 2020

Hello, I'll be handling your critique today. Congrats on completing the lesson. Looking at your superimposed lines I'm not really seeing any issues. You really challenged yourself by focusing on longer lines and curves. There is some issue with wobble because you are thinking about accuracy over a confident line at times but I'm not seeing any major issues. Moving onto your ghosted lines I'm pretty much seeing the same thing. Minimal wobble for the most part but make sure you are ghosting every line multiple times before committing. You are having some issues with accuracy and that will get better over time the more you draw but ghosting will always help with this.

Moving onto your ellipse tables I'm glad to see you are drawing through your ellipses. It does seem to me that you might not be ghosting enough on these. Some of them are coming out very rigid with a lack of integrity because you seem to be focusing on accuracy. Ellipses are very hard to draw and one of the hardest things to tackle as a beginner. Ghosting is key here and you really want to work on getting that ellipse motion down before committing to your lines. Your ghosted planes look quite good, particularly your lines, but you are still having that same issue with ellipse integrity. Again, this is something that is going to improve the more you practice and I would recommend working ellipses into your warmups. Your funneled ellipses are looking decent but one recommendation I would have is to start with a narrower degree in the center and enlarge it as you move outwards. It is covered in the lesson in this section. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/step3

Your plotted perspective looks fine. I'm not seeing any issues here. Your rough perspective however is having a lot of issue with line wobble. I’m not sure if you stopped ghosting your lines for these pages but I am seeing a lot of wobble here that isn’t present in your ghosted planes. Always remember to ghost your lines. You have a good understanding of how the vanishing point works and I’m glad to see you extending your lines back on your boxes to see how off your estimation was in some cases. My big takeaway here though is to always ghost your lines even when drawing boxes. Also make sure you ghost and commit if you are trying to add lineweight. It appears to me that you are adding some more wobbly lines in some cases when you try to add line weight.

Good job on the rotated box exercise. You are doing a good job of keeping your gaps narrow and consistent and you are drawing through all of your boxes. I feel like you are hiding a bit of wobble with your line thickness here so always remember to ghost and commit. The one major issue I’m seeing is that you aren’t always rotating your boxes and instead just moving them back in perspective. You should probably go back and take a look at this section of the lesson. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating

I'm seeing some noticeable improvement on your line quality and accuracy during the organic box exercise so great job there! You are having some convergence issues which will get addressed a lot more as your work through the 250 box challenge. Anyways great job on completing the lesson and my big recommendations here are to make sure you are always ghosting your lines and I would start incorporating ellipses into your warmups. Good luck with the 250 box challenge!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
6:43 PM, Tuesday June 2nd 2020

Thank you very much for the critique!

I'll run through the elipse lesson again, incoroprate elipses into my warm up and work on that wobble!

Is there an article on warmups? I don't recall seeing one in my time on Lesson 1

Thanks again

8:10 PM, Tuesday June 2nd 2020

The warmups are discussed in Lesson 0, specifically in the section titled "On the subject of grinding and warmups".

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