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2:13 AM, Sunday December 8th 2024

Welcome and congratulations on finishing the first lesson of Drawabox! I'm Mada and I'll be taking a look at your submission.

Overall you did a decent job here, but let's break them down one by one. I'll write the most important things in bold.

Lines

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. Ghosted lines look fine, but you start having these tiny wobbles in your lines. You might still be hesitating here, or limiting your pivot for some reason (usually by unconsciously using your arm or wrist as the pivot instead of your shoulder). Do keep reminding yourself to use your shoulder, and prioritize confidence over accuracy. They will get better as you get more practice, but you do need to keep conscious of what you're doing right/wrong and tweak it accordingly on your next attempt. (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ghostedlines/wobbling)

Ellipses

While it's not as bad as your lines, I also still see some wobbling in your ellipses here and there, especially with the bigger planes, and it's still apparent in your funnels. You seem to have tendency to lock your hand when it comes to awkward ellipses and make it look choppy in the process. A confident execution leads to an evenly shaped ellipse, whereas hesitation leads to wobbling and uneven shapes just as it does for our lines. Be more confident, and again make sure you're allowing yourself to draw from your shoulder (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ellipsesinplanes/deformed).

Boxes

You've shown a good understanding of how to make 2 point perspective in the plotted perspective. I did see some skewed back vertical lines here and there, which is usually caused by an accumulation of human error as you plot more and more lines. I assume that's the case and you understand that every vertical line is straight in 2 point perspective. Even if the points are not aligned correctly, try to find a middle ground and draw it as vertical as you can.

You've made boxes and applied the lines extension correctly for the rough perspective. You also drew the front/back faces rectangular, which is correct for 1 point perspective.

As the notoriously most difficult exercise in this lesson, you've done a great job at doing the rotated boxes. You've rotated them pretty well (while making sure to move the converging lines) and used neighboring elements to deduce the next orientation of boxes, which is the whole purpose of this exercise.

Finally, organic perspective looks great as well. They look like they belong in the same page and the lines converge as they move farther away from the viewer. There are a few hiccups here and there where there are divergences that results in skewed boxes, but overall they're minor and they look pretty solid.

This will get more relevant as you get to the box challenge, but any hatching from this point on should also be done with the ghosting method. It will make your stuff cleaner and more practice is always good! Try to cover the whole area of the box with consistent spacing.

One last thing I want to mention is do not correct your lines by going over it with more lines. This will make your mistake stands out even more with how bold it is, and generally is against the concept of executing planned confident lines throughout this course. Unless it's waaaaay off the trajectory, accept the mistake and trust your muscle memory that it will get better with time and practice.

While you're doing fine with your boxes, your lines and ellipses still look significantly hesitant that I'm afraid that you'll carry on the habit through the next lessons and your warmups. I'd like you to apply what we've gone through here and try prioritizing confidence over accuracy more in your lines/ellipses. in two extra pages of ghosted planes and ellipses. Once I can confirm that you're on the right path and can practice them on your own, you can move on to the box challenge. Give it your all and reread the material if need to!

Next Steps:

  1. Two (2) extra pages of Ghosted Planes exercise.

  2. Two (2) extra pages of Ellipses in Planes exercise (using the Ghosted Planes pages above).

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
9:11 PM, Tuesday December 10th 2024

Hi Mada, thanks for the insightful feedback. I've completed the requested revisions in the imgur gallery, trying to prioritise confidence over accuracy: https://imgur.com/a/3j3EVsM

2:13 AM, Wednesday December 11th 2024

Awesome! I can already see the improvement. There's still a tiny arc in your lines, but you can fix them by trying to intentionally arc your lines to the opposite direction to counteract the natural curve. This constant correction you make will eventually become natural as you get more practice (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ghostedlines/arc).

Your ellipses are also off the mark a bit (didn't quite hit the borders of the planes), but their confidence is far better than you've done before. I believe that you know what "confidence" means here and understand how to get there; you just need more practice. Keep doing them in your warmups during your next lessons and you're gold. Good luck on the box challenge!

Next Steps:

Move onto the 250 box challenge.

Do the lesson 1 exercises as your regular warmup and don't forget your 50% rule art.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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