Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

5:27 AM, Sunday July 5th 2020

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Hello, I just completed my Lesson 1 Exercises. as you may notice i finished them all in just 2 days, The reason was that I'm diagnosed with OCD and can barely control myself while doing thing, as i always ended up rushing thing to the finish line. for me it's doing stuff all day or laying down, sleep and being depressed all day i need something to focus my thought to, so i started drawing years ago. i do take a break between exercises and draw what i want as suggested, i will try to slow down and put more focus into things through out these lessons. i hope 250 boxes and other challenges will help me doing so. but i do need approval on my work before anything can be done. i will happily redo the assignment if recommended to. I'm looking forward to complete the whole course and hopefully beat my mental illness while doing what i love.

Note1: the Funnels Exercise split in 2 pages because i forgot to do the corner funnel thingy

Note2: i used 0.4 fineliner for all exercises

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6:37 PM, Monday July 6th 2020

Hello, I'll be looking over your submission today. So to start things off you probably shouldn't be working through these lessons in one to two days. Learning to draw well requires a lot of patience and discipline which are two things you are probably going to need to work on. You will also pick up these concepts much quicker if you do them more consistently in shorter timeframes on a day to day basis instead of stuffing them into 2 extremely long sessions over a 2 day period. Having a quick glance at your work it looks pretty good for the most part but I can already see some things where you didn't follow directions carefully enough. You really want to take your time with this stuff and read through the lessons carefully and try and follow the instructions as closely as possible.

Starting with your superimposed lines these are looking decent. You are keeping a clear starting point but on a lot of these they end up fraying right from the beginning which is somethign you want to avoid. Fraying is sort of inevitable on these longer lines but you shouldn't be getting it right after the starting point which is happening on quite a few of your lines. Take your time with these and don't rush. Moving onto your ghosted lines these are looking pretty good as well but I can see that you are only ghosting once on a few of them and this is a case where you really should be following the directions as closely as possible for your submitted homework. You are supposed to ghost every line you do multiple times when working through these lessons. Especially in these early lessons. Once you get more comfortable with this method you can do it less but for now you should really be ghosting multiple times. Your ghosted planes turned out pretty much the same. Good and confident for the most part but make sure you keep up with the ghosting and try not to rush. You are off to a good start here.

Your tables of ellipses is off to a good start as well. You are drawing through all of your ellipses which is really good to see. You are also focusing on getting a solid ellipse shape over complete accuracy which is the right call. Maintaining a solid ellipse shape is your number one priority right now and you will build up your accuracy with practice. The ellipses in planes and funnels are both coming along very well. Once again you are focusing on a solid ellipse shape and are getting some nice results. Your ellipses still need plenty of work so keep practicing them in your warmups but you are on the right track here.

Plotted perspective looks good nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective boxes are looking pretty decent but there are a few issues here. First off you didn't follow the homework exactly for how you were supposed to lay these out on a page. These are supposed to be done with 3 exercises per page. You did the same thing for your organic box exercise as well. Please check the lesson here for how it should be laid out. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/15/example You did a good job extending your lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your estimations were quite off but that will get better with practice. You also are getting quite a bit of tilt on some of your vertical lines. This tends to happen because students are trying to think through the spatial problems they are facing. Try and remember that when you are drawing a box in one point perspective that all verticals should be straight up and down and shouldn't have any tilt to them.

Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty good for a first attempt. You did a great job drawing through your boxes here and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. However, you are running into a pretty common beginner mistake where you aren't rotating your boxes enough and are simply moving them back in perspective. Please check the lesson notes here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating The organic box exercise is looking pretty good but you didn't lay your pages our correctly as mentioned previously. It's the same as the rough perspective boxes where it should be 3 exercises on one page. Your linework is good here and you were using the ghosting method well. There are some convergence issues with your boxes but you will get a lot of practice on that during the 250 box challenge.

Overall this was a good submission. Outside of not laying out a few of the exercises correctly you did a pretty good job of following the lessons closely and you showed some good improvement as well. I am going to have to you do one more page each of the rough perspective and organic perspective just so you follow the instructions more carefully. Once you get those submitted I will mark this as complete and you can move onto the 250 box challenge.

Next Steps:

One more page rough perspective , one more page organic perspective, Follow the instructions and do 3 exercises per page https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/15/example

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
4:09 PM, Tuesday July 14th 2020

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I find it really hard to ghost a smaller line and ended up missing a lot of guide. i did warm-up with some of the previous exercise before attempting each section. I'm not happy with the result, but i will not grinding them for better result unless recommended to.

4:43 PM, Tuesday July 14th 2020

You don't need to grind them. Just do them as a short warmup before each drawing session. These pages look good. I'm going to mark this as complete. Good luck with the box challenge!

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