Check Out NMA    Learn More About our Partnership
Close and Enjoy Drawabox Ad-free
View Full Submission View Parent Comment
2 users agree
4:11 PM, Thursday September 9th 2021

Hello Digigamerr14, I hope you are well.

For your lines:

You did really well overall in this section, you are making confident strokes, it clearly shows that you take your time with each stroke, good job.

Your superimposed lines are frying only on one end properly, but those longer lines could see more work in terms of straightness, but this comes with experience.

It is completely fine to post your ghosted planes with ellipses in them.

Secondly ellipses:

These are good, but they could be more confident, try to focus on the confidence of your ellipses and strokes rather than accuracy while doing those exercises.

Also in funnels your minor axis(the middle line) isnt cutting the ellipses in symmetrical half, so we have two perfect halves. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/notaligned

also reminder what is minor axis, since it took me long time to understand it https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/5/minoraxis

Lastly boxes:

During this section you are repeating your lines, which is a bad habit in a drawabox exercises. Don't try to fix a bad line, leave an ugly line and then next time you make a line think of your past mistakes. Those are exercises, not pretty drawings, we are trying to learn something from them.

This is your biggest mistake here, everything here is done properly. One minor thing that I would point out is that you are not rotating enough in an organic perspective. Nothing else to say in this section, just dont try to fix lines by repeating and everything should be better.

Yes, using shoulder is good practice and as said before it is completely fine to only post ellipses in ghosted planes.

Overall you did a very good job, it shows that you read the material thoughtfully. Now what is before you is 250 box challenge, which is a tough mountain to overcome, but there is no mountain that humans cant climb or so I think because I didnt check that, but lets go with that as an ending motivation quote.

Have fun on your journey.

Next Steps:

Continue to 250 box challenge!

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
3:09 PM, Friday September 10th 2021
edited at 3:22 PM, Sep 10th 2021

Thank you for your critique Rivgar!

I will work more on doing my ellipses with confidence. Funnels weren't that right, so I will add some funnels to my warmups.

On the boxes, yes. I was struggling with some lines and then I was worried about not doing it right, I totally forgot that these are exercises and started to 'fix' some lines, I will keep it in mind.

Organic Perspective, I was actually thinking on the 'Y' of the boxes before actually visualize the rotated box it self, so I will try to visualize the box first.

Thank you again for pointing out my mistakes, I will work on my weaknesses

edited at 3:22 PM, Sep 10th 2021
The recommendation below is an advertisement. Most of the links here are part of Amazon's affiliate program (unless otherwise stated), which helps support this website. It's also more than that - it's a hand-picked recommendation of something I've used myself. If you're interested, here is a full list.
Drawabox-Tested Fineliners (Pack of 10, $17.50 USD)

Drawabox-Tested Fineliners (Pack of 10, $17.50 USD)

Let's be real here for a second: fineliners can get pricey. It varies from brand to brand, store to store, and country to country, but good fineliners like the Staedtler Pigment Liner (my personal brand favourite) can cost an arm and a leg. I remember finding them being sold individually at a Michael's for $4-$5 each. That's highway robbery right there.

Now, we're not a big company ourselves or anything, but we have been in a position to periodically import large batches of pens that we've sourced ourselves - using the wholesale route to keep costs down, and then to split the savings between getting pens to you for cheaper, and setting some aside to one day produce our own.

These pens are each hand-tested (on a little card we include in the package) to avoid sending out any duds (another problem with pens sold in stores). We also checked out a handful of different options before settling on this supplier - mainly looking for pens that were as close to the Staedtler Pigment Liner. If I'm being honest, I think these might even perform a little better, at least for our use case in this course.

We've also tested their longevity. We've found that if we're reasonably gentle with them, we can get through all of Lesson 1, and halfway through the box challenge. We actually had ScyllaStew test them while recording realtime videos of her working through the lesson work, which you can check out here, along with a variety of reviews of other brands.

Now, I will say this - we're only really in a position to make this an attractive offer for those in the continental United States (where we can offer shipping for free). We do ship internationally, but between the shipping prices and shipping times, it's probably not the best offer you can find - though this may depend. We also straight up can't ship to the UK, thanks to some fairly new restrictions they've put into place relating to their Brexit transition. I know that's a bummer - I'm Canadian myself - but hopefully one day we can expand things more meaningfully to the rest of the world.

This website uses cookies. You can read more about what we do with them, read our privacy policy.