Welcome and congratulations on finishing the first lesson of Drawabox! I'm Mada and I'll be taking a look at your submission.
Overall you did a decent job here, but I do have a bit to mention so let's break them down one by one. I'll write the most important things in bold.
Lines
Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. However, I can see your ghosted lines to be wobbly in places, and while you did improve as the lesson go on, they're still present as you go through the box exercises. You might still be hesitating here, or limiting your pivot for some reason (usually by unconsciously using your arm or wrist as the pivot instead of your shoulder). Do keep reminding yourself to use your shoulder, and prioritize confidence over accuracy. They will get better as you get more practice, but you do need to keep conscious of what you're doing right/wrong and tweak it accordingly on your next attempt. (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ghostedlines/wobbling)
Ellipses
Now with your ellipses, I also still see some wobbling there especially with the bigger planes, and it's still apparent in your funnels. Again, this is relatively common and can result from hesitation or a limitation on your pivot (like using your wrist instead). A confident execution leads to an evenly shaped ellipse, whereas hesitation leads to wobbling and uneven shapes just as it does for our lines. Be more confident, and make sure you're allowing yourself to draw from your shoulder (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ellipsesinplanes/deformed).
Boxes
You've shown a good understanding of how to make 2 point perspective in the plotted perspective. I did see some skewed back vertical lines here and there, which is usually caused by an accumulation of human error as you plot more and more lines. I assume that's the case and you understand that every vertical line is straight in 2 point perspective. Even if the points are not aligned correctly, try to find a middle ground and draw it as vertical as you can.
You've applied the ghosting method and lines extension correctly for the rough perspective. You also drew the front/back faces rectangular, which is correct for 1 point perspective.
As the notoriously most difficult exercise in this lesson, you've done a great job at doing the rotated boxes. You've rotated them pretty well (while making sure to move the converging lines) and used neighboring elements to deduce the next orientation of boxes, which is the whole purpose of this exercise. Only one problem though, is that you forgot to draw in the last 4 boxes at each corner (refer to the example here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/21/example). It might not seem much, but we'd like you to finish each exercise to its utmost completion and benefit.
Finally, organic perspective looks great as well. They look like they belong in the same page and the lines converge as they move farther away from the viewer. There are a few hiccups here and there where there are divergences that results in skewed boxes, but overall they're minor and they look pretty solid.
This will get more relevant as you get to the box challenge, but if you decide to do so, any hatching from this point on should also be done with the ghosting method. It will make your stuff cleaner and more practice is always good! Try to cover the whole area of the box with consistent spacing.
One last thing I want to mention is do not correct your lines by going over it with more lines, especially if you're trying to cover wobbly lines with them. This will make your mistake stands out even more with how bold it is, and generally is against the concept of executing planned confident lines throughout this course. Unless it's waaaaay off the trajectory, accept the mistake and trust your muscle memory that it will get better with time and practice.
Anyway, while I think you've grasped most of the concepts. I'd still like you to try redoing the ghosted planes and ellipses in planes exercise just to make sure that you're able to execute confident lines and ellipses as you practice them in your warmups. I'd also like you to finish the rotated boxes exercise as mentioned above. Again, always prioritize confidence over accuracy, and try to increase your speed so you're relying more on muscle memory rather than thinking about it. Once you're with them, make sure to reply directly to this feedback with your new link!
Next Steps:
One (1) extra page of the Ghosted Planes exercise.
One (1) extra page of the Ellipses in Planes exercise (using the planes above).
Finish the Rotated Boxes exercise (the missing 4 boxes; refer to the example).
Thank you Mada for the critique, it was valuable and I am so happy that I got the harder assignments more or less correct. I will get on to doing those follow up assignments and come back to you when I am complete.
Will you now be my forever TA for the rest of my time in this course?
One thing I wanted to point out, and I am not trying to be argumentative, just mention it in case I have misunderstood.
You wrote to me:
"You've shown a good understanding of how to make 2 point perspective in the plotted perspective. I did see some skewed back vertical lines here and there, which is usually caused by an accumulation of human error as you plot more and more lines. I assume that's the case and you understand that every vertical line is straight in 2 point perspective. Even if the points are not aligned correctly, try to find a middle ground and draw it as vertical as you can."
But here I believe Uncomfortable gives specific instructions to let those back edges be wonky because seeing that gives good information.
Do I misunderstand something?
Again, not being argumentative. ;-)
No, I won't be your forever TA unfortunately, as different lessons will be handled by different TAs and even Uncomfortable himself later on c:
That's an excellent point you brought up! Seeing that this is deliberate, we just would like to remind students that these back skewed lines will be present a lot of times due to accumulative human errors, but is clearly not a characteristic of two point perspective. Making the line as straight as possible between the two points will remind you of this fact, so you can try to line them up even more carefully at your next attempt.
Feel free to ask here or in the discord channel if you have any more questions, and good luck on your revisions!
Here is the follow-up assignment you gave me. I did as you said with the ellipses, I drew with much more confidence and trust. I myself find the result much better. Thank you for the help.
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