Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

6:45 AM, Saturday November 1st 2025

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Hello! I would like an honest feedback for my homework.

7:08 AM, Monday November 3rd 2025

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 great 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. Ghosted lines look correctly ghosted and confident too, and there are barely any arching. You've also demonstrated the same confidence in your ghosted planes with a great accuracy. However, I noticed that you didn't put the start and end points when you bisect the planes horizontally and vertically. This results in floating lines, like this: https://imgur.com/a/Ud2O6tR. Do not forget to always plan your lines first when ghosting, even though you already kind of know where they should be.

Ellipses

Now with your ellipses, while you did them somewhat smoothly, there's another more pressing problem here. You're not drawing through your ellipses, which you should do 2-3 times before lifting the pen. It gives you an extra chance to build muscle memory, and will help you be more confident as you do more and more of them. (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/tablesofellipses/drawingthrough) This motions are very critical to learn and use in this course, so make sure to reread the part I've mentioned to make sure you understand its purpose.

The funnels are looking great; you've managed to fit them snugly and aligned to the minor axis. Also this is optional, but you can attempt the optional step of varying the ellipse's degrees as you move outwards in your warm ups, as mentioned here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3

Boxes

The plotted perspective has no problems, you've shown a good understanding of how to make 2 point perspective aside from a few skewed lines.

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.

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 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.

Anyway, while I think you've grasped most of the concepts, I'd still like you to get accustomed to the drawing through motions for your ellipses by doing an extra page of Tables of Ellipses. Make sure to keep your confidence throughout the ghosting motions, and reply directly to this feedback so I can be notified!

Next Steps:

One (1) extra page of Tables of Ellipses.

(Make sure to draw through your ellipses.)

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
6:12 PM, Thursday November 6th 2025

Hello, Madabau!

I'm glad you took your time to evaluate my work. Your review was honest, informative and elaborated in a friendly manner, and I respect that.

I attached below another page of Tables of Ellipses as requested. I hope I managed to nail the exercise this time.

Thank you for the effort that you put into the feedback and for the extra advice.

3:00 AM, Friday November 7th 2025

Thank you for your revision! You've done a great job at drawing through these ellipses, but make sure to practice with more kinds of ellipses with various sizes and degrees in your warmups. I believe you'll be able to improve more too as you go through the box challenge. Remember to keep working on your lines & ellipses confidence. Congratulations and keep up the good work!

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.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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