Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

1:05 AM, Sunday September 4th 2022

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If you're wondering why it says the photos were uploaded July 13, 2021, it's because I originally submitted this for community critique and have now decided that it would be better to get official critique (in reality, I am on lesson 4, but am pausing as I wait to make sure I did everything before correctly. If it turns out that I actually need to re-complete these lessons and submit the new pages, or it is simply advised that I do, I will do that)

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3:37 AM, Monday September 5th 2022

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 This helps with practicing different degrees of ellipses. Your ellipses are off to a great start but there's still room for improvement so keep practicing them during your warmups.

The plotted perspective looks great but you are having some issues with slanting back legs for your boxes which should be perpendicular to the horizon line(straight up and down). 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 pretty well. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. The rotations here are abit slight overall, which is perfectly given the difficulty of this exercise. The more you draw and develop your spatial thinking ability the easier these rotations are to handle. 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. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. Your box constructions are a bit of a mixed bag. While there are some solid constructions here there are also wonky ones throughout. The 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you in order to develop a better understanding of how box lines converge to vps.

Overall this was a solid submission that showed a nice deal of growth. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along nicely. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work! If you have homework that is over a year old it's generally advised that you redo it for official submissions. For the 250 box challenge you don't need to redo the entire thing. Just do 50 extra boxes that you can submit along with your original homework that will give a better sense of your current drawing ability. Your future lessons after that will need to be redone if they are more than a couple months old though.

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
5:34 PM, Monday September 5th 2022

Thank you so much! I'll definitely be redoing those other lessons, as they are very old and the amount of times I took time off from doing DrawABox was probably really counterproductive towards developing habits like drawing from my shoulder. Thank you again!

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