I initially finished all exercises with a ball pen, but then decided to go back and redo them once my fineliners arrived, since I realized it would be better to get used to it and get more experience with my main pen from now on. Just want to point out I was struggling a bit more than I was with the ball pen, especially with Elipses and Rotated Boxes. With the ball pen they were much more accurate.
Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.
Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. 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 are having some issues with tilting off the minor axis. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/notaligned This is something you should always start considering when drawing your ellipses. One thing you could have done with these is start with a narrower degree ellipse in the center and then widen the degrees of the ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel. Please check the example here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/step3 Your ellipses are off to a great start but there's still room for improvement when it comes to accuracy so keep practicing them during your warmups.
The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. It's great that you are keeping up with the confident linework on these. You are also doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice. One thing that can help you a bit when doing a one point perspective exercise like this is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be perpendicular(straight up and down in this case) to the horizon line. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.
Your rotated box exercise turned out decently. One thing that would have helped you here would have been to just draw this a bit bigger. Drawing bigger really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. Obviously you are still struggling a bit with some of the rotations here which is perfectly fine given the difficulty but this was a good effort overall. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good but these were supposed to be laid out with three exercises per page like the rough perspective homework. Please check the example homework page here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/example You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. I am noticing that you are redrawing lines on occasion and this is a habit you should try and get out of. Try and stick with the initial line you put down even if it's a bit off. Adding more lines just makes things messier and harder to read. Your box constructions are decent for the most part but there are some wonky ones here and there so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you. Since you only did one exercise per page and you still are having some issues with redrawing lines quite a bit I'd like you to do one more page of this as a revision. Make sure you lay it out correctly with three exercises on one page. Focus on confident linework and no redrawing lines. Put down a line and stick with it.
Overall this was a solid submission that showed a nice deal of growth. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along nicely you just have a bit of a habit of redrawing lines that needs to be taken care of. Once you get that revision submitted I'll take a look and you can most likely move on to the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
One page of the Organic Perspective Exercises - Make sure you lay it out correctly with three exercises on one page. Focus on confident linework and no redrawing lines. Put down a line and stick with it.
Thank you. I'm still baffled how on earth it slipped my mind to not do the three frames instead of just one. I mean, I watched the video, read the text, but somehow I forgot. Haha. Anyway, thanks for the reminder about redrawing the lines, I'm still caughting myself doing it sometimes almost instinctually, but I'm trying to be more mindful and stop this habit. One other thing though. Sorry about the second frame last box, I don't know what happened there, I completely miscalculated the central line, and since there is no redrawing...
Here is the exercise: https://imgur.com/a/ZCuy9lQ
Okay this looks good. Obviously some of the box constructions could still use some work but that's why you are moving on to the 250 box challenge but your linework is looking confident throughout. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the box challenge!
Next Steps:
The 250 Box Challenge
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