At the start i was very bad at controlling my very shaky hands and understanding how to use my arm. Still working on both but it got better. Some small stupid mistakes like going over lines again when i shouldnt have, and messing up optional cross hatching.
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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 into your ellipses in planes for the most part. You mentionedn that you have shaky hands and the wobbly linework is definitely becoming a bit more noticeable with this exercise and the ellipses in funnels. This is most likely happening because you are just a bit too concerned with accuracy while drawing your ellipses. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/wobbling That hesitation because of your concern for accuracy while making your mark is what is introducing the wobble into your lines. Try and rely a bit more on the muscle memory you build up while ghosting your mark and almost make your mark without thinking. This will be less accurate at first but will give you consistently smooth and confident linework which is our first priority. Accuracy will come with mileage and can't really be forced. Other than that your ellipses in funnels are looking fine. One thing you could have done with these is start with a narrower degree ellipse in the center and then widen the degrees of the ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel. Please check the example here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/step3 Your ellipses are off to a good start and while you started having some wobbly line issues with the ellipses in planes and funnels I can see that you are definitely trying for smooth ellipse shapes for the most and it's really just an issue of practicing these more and getting used to them make sure you keep working on these exercises in 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 a bit 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. While the rotations here aren't perfect this was a very good effort overall. Nice work. 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 and you wobbly linework issue seems to have been worked out fairly well. Your box constructions pretty solid for the most part and while there are a few wonky ones here and there you already seem to have a fairly solid understanding of how box lines need to converge to vp's so the 250 box challenge shouldn't be much of a problem for you and should help with becoming even more consistenly solid with those constructions.
Overall this was a really solid submission that showed a nice deal of growth. Your line confidence is coming along well just make sure you keep practicing those ellipses during your warmups as there is plenty of room to grow there. Otherwise, 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
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