Thanks!
I'm actually onto lesson 3 at this point so these are quite old. However I definitely missed some things and this was a good review. Here they are.
Tofu will be along later to look at your revisions, but I felt I should remind you that one of the requirements for official critique is that students may not move onto the next lesson or challenge until they've had the previous one marked as complete. This was stated on the first page of Lesson 0 (although just yesterday I moved it over here to reduce clutter, while releasing a video that goes over the same information.
You will be expected to start your work on Lesson 2 when your box challenge is marked as complete, so that the work you submit for us to critique has had an opportunity to implement the feedback you've received here and back in Lesson 1, so we do not end up having to point out the same issues repeatedly.
Thanks Comfy, I was wondering how this would work as I started out without official critique to try Drawabox out for free to make sure that it was something I could stick with. After completing lesson two, I felt that it was time to start investing in official critique.
Was there another way I should have gone about this? I genuinely love your service and want to be the best student I can be for you all.
The page I linked you to from Lesson 0 (here, again) explains the rules associated with official critique. The short of it is that if you decide upon completing Lesson 2 to pursue official critique, ideally you'd start over from the beginning, with two basic exceptions that I don't openly list because I don't want to encourage people to try and get around those rules:
Your old Lesson 1 work can be submitted if for whatever reason it still represents your current skill level and understanding of the concepts.
You can submit your 250 box challenge work with 50 additional boxes done after your Lesson 1 work was marked as complete through official critique.
Nothing beyond that is permitted to be reused, so again - you will be doing your Lesson 2 work over.
As Uncomfortable mentioned (and as discussed in lesson 0 as well as briefly hinted at in my critique) we don't want you to be working ahead or submitting old work because each bit of course material builds off the previous section. Meaning if you have issues in previous work it will likely be present in your current work, this means you'll be needlessly repeating exercises which can lead to burn out, and means that the person critiquing your work needs to address issues that should no longer be present. It's basically a poor use of everyone involved's time.
As for the boxes you've provided here there are still issues in a number of them.
Boxes: 2, 5, 6, 7, 11, 14, 17, 22, and 24
All suffer from lines being extended in the wrong direction still.
I'll be asking you to re-read through your critique where I provided you guides and visual demonstrations of how to correctly place your vanishing points and extend your lines and draw 10 more boxes please.
Next Steps:
10 more boxes please.
Gotcha.
So just so I understand this fully, if I am viewing a box from underneath, its Y axis vanishing point will always project towards the top? and vice versa?
That's correct. If you're under the box then that means in order for the lines to converge away from the viewer they'd have to go upwards.
Okay. I think these feel a lot better. I have a few where my lines are converging in pairs but overall I feel better about these. My cross hatching isn’t as neat as I would like. I’m having trouble controlling the length of each line with my my arm and tend to overshoot. I’ll be interested hear what you think. Thoughts?
Lines converging in pairs is something to work on but it's expected, you'll continue to improve with mileage.
My main concern was with you possibly not understanding how vanishing points and convergences work, but in these revisions you've shown you have them grasped now.
Good work, I have no issues moving you on to lesson 2 now (which as Uncomfortable mentioned should be all new work from this point forward).
Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups and good luck.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2.
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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