Welcome and congrats on completing Lesson 1 of Drawabox! I hope you're going to enjoy your journey in art this time around. I’m Mada and I’ll be reviewing your submission here.
You’ve done a really strong job overall, though there are a few points worth going over. I'll be highlighting important things in bold for you to easily refer to.
Lines
Your superimposed lines have no problems here. The ghosted lines and planes are also clearly planned out and executed with confidence with very little arching. Some sways and inaccuracies are of course expected, but this is something you'll need to keep doing with your warmups.
Ellipses
In the tables of ellipses, you showed a clear understanding of how to draw them smoothly and confidently. I can see that you're not having much problem with your ellipses in planes either.
Your funnels are also well done; they’re aligned properly to the minor axis and fit snugly within the guideline. Nothing much to mention here as your skills (in confidence and accuracy) will naturally improve with more practice. This is optional as an extra challenge, but you can try varying the degrees of your ellipses as they move outward in your warmups as mentioned here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3.
Boxes
The plotted perspective exercise is done correctly and shows that you clearly understand 2 point perspective.
You’ve applied the ghosting method and line extensions properly in the rough perspective. Some of the back faces of your boxes aren’t quite rectangular, which means that the horizontals should stay parallel to the horizon line and the verticals are perpendicular to it. It’s important to avoid any guesswork or random angles when rules like this exist for the 1 and 2 point perspective. Again, keep in mind that rectangular front and back faces is an important characteristic of 1 point perspective.
You're actually doing very well with the rotated boxes! You've made the lines converge as they go further to the side, which correctly creates that sense of rotation. The main goal of this exercise is focused around using that rotation and neighboring elements to deduce the placement for the next boxes, which you've executed well here.
Finally, your organic perspective also looks great. The boxes feel like they exist in the same space, and the lines converge as they move away from the viewer. Some boxes look a little wonky with their perspective, but this is exactly the main thing we'll train during the box challenge.
I'd also like to mention that you should also do the hatching with the ghosting method if you choose to apply them to your boxes. Try to keep consistent spacing between the lines and cover the whole face of the side you're hatching.
Throughout these exercises, I believe that you’ve understood the main concepts of this lesson and ready to reinforce them in the warmups. Keep practicing your lines & ellpses confidence and 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.
thank you for your feedback from lesson 1! I have started the 250 box challenge and have finished 25 boxes of the "first 50." I'm a bit concerned as I am not really noticing any improvement from page to page, is this normal? obviously i'm not expecting my boxes to get "perfect" in so short of time, but I feel like Ikm really struggling with keeping my lines going the direction I want them to. I'm employing the ghosting method with every line (including with the hash marks which still look terrible!) and am trying my hardest to draw from the shoulder each time. I'm also trying to ensure I'm not rushing, for reference the last 10 boxes tool me around 75 minutes to complete (including the color lines with the ruler.
I'm just concerned I am practicing wrong, not fully getting it, and/or creating bad habits in the process I'll have to unlearn later as I am brand new at all of this.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks ahead of time!
You've only done 10% of the challenge, and no matter where you are at in the challenge I'd advise to not worry too much about it. The box challenge is technically one of those skills that you need to "grind" at; keep in mind that we're just trying to develop your spatial reasoning skills rather than trying to create perfect boxes. As long as you keep analyzing your patterns of errors and try to mitigate them in your next attempt, you'll improve. Keep going!
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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