Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

4:45 PM, Wednesday January 6th 2021

Lesson 1 - Google Drive

Lesson 1 - Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Tdy_037HKlLfCoDBa8KFojSKNvCKEvM3?usp=sharing

Well, that's done, any and all feedback welcome.

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1:56 AM, Friday January 8th 2021

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with pretty minimal wavering throughout. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out very well. You are using the ghosting method to great effect to get confident linework with a pretty good deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice. Nice job.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along quite well. You are doing a good job drawing through all of your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over into your ellipses in planes very nicely. It's good that you are too concerned with accuracy at this point as I can see a few here where you were and it ended up leading to a slightly deformed shape overall. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. Your ellipses in funnels look fine I'm not seeing any real issues here. One thing you could try with this exercise would be to start with a narrower degree ellipse in the center and then widen the degrees of the ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/step3 This would make it a bit more challenging for you. Your ellispes are coming along great keep up with practincing them and they'll be even better.

The plotted perspective looks great nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective boxes look great. You seem to be pretty comfortable with using the ghosting method already and are getting confident linework without much of an issue. You also did a good job extending the lines back on your boxes correctly to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were off but that will become more intuitive with practice. Good work.

The rotated box exercise turned out pretty well! You did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You didn't quite nail your rotations and in some cases even weren't really rotating your boxes at all like on the right side but were instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating Your organic perspective exercise looks great. You are doing a good job keeping up with the confident line work. Your box construction all look good too for the most part. I think you are well prepared for the 250 box challenge.

Overall this was a great submission. You are showing a very thororugh understanding of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work!

Next Steps:

250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
5:25 AM, Friday January 8th 2021

Hi Rob and thanks very much for reviewing my work.

For ellipses, yes I was worried about my accuracy on them and think i overcompensated in the funnals exercise trying to get consistency rather than varying my degree, I'll try to keep each aspect to it's own exercise and vary my degree more in future ellipse funnel warmups.

For rough perspective, yes, i noticed doing it that i tended to be ok enough on the three "visible" lines but would go way off on the back face, I'll try to work on this during the 250 box challenge.

Rotated box: yeah, i noticed that myself, i think next time i do this i won't do the 4 outer squares, I found that to be rather distracting and gave me two competing goals - keep boxes homogenous but also rotate 90° by this point (though that may very well be one of the exercise's aims, so maybe I'll just be more careful where and how big I make them)

Thanks again for taking the time to give such a detailed review of my work.

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