3:34 PM, Monday August 24th 2020
Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be looking at your submission today. Starting with your superimposed lines these are a bit odd as you seem to have focused on curves rather than straight lines. Nothing particularly wrong with this although I think you probably just made things a little bit harder on yourself. You are keeping a clear starting point on all of these though which is good to see. Moving onto your ghosted lines and planes these are looking quite good. You are doing a great job using the ghosting method to achieve some very smooth and confident linework with a good degree of accuracy. Nice job.
Your tables of ellipses exercise are coming along very well. You are doing a great job drawing through all of your ellipses and are doing well with focusing on getting a smooth ellipse shape. There's obviously plenty of room for improvement here but these are on the right track. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. Good job focusing on getting an overall smooth ellipse shape and not worrying too much about them perfectly fitting into each plane. Accuracy is the end goal but focusing on nailing that smooth ellipse shape every time if the priority. Your ellipses in funnels are looking decent although I'm noticing that in some cases you aren't really aligning your ellipses to the minor axis, particularly in the bottom right corner, which is something you should always be thinking about. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/5/minoraxis
Plotted perspective looks good although a little note about hatching. If you want to add hatching you should try and start and end it at the edges of a plane and not have them freely floating in the middle of the plane the way you are doing and draw them the same as every other line you make, which means to ghost them and then draw from the shoulder with confidence. Your rough perspective boxes turned out pretty well. You are still using the ghosting method to good effect and are keeping up with the confident linework. You also did a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were off but that will get better with practice.
The rotated box exercise turned out pretty good! You did a good job keeping your gaps narrow and consistent although you appear to have given up drawing through your boxes on some of the outer boxes. Something that might have helped you here would have been to draw this bigger. Drawing bigger heps you work through more complex spatial problems much more easily. You are also running into some issues with not rotating your boxes enough and in some cases you were simply drawing the boxes moving back in perspective which is a pretty common issue. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating Finally, your organic perspective exercise is looking okay. You are keeping up with the confident linework although I noticed you drew a lot of the same angle and proportion of box over and over for this which tells me that 250 box challenge will be really good for you to start thinking about your box constructions a bit more and get more creative with your boxes.
Overall, this was a good submission with a nice amount of growth. You are doing a good job understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work!