Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
7:28 PM, Saturday September 3rd 2022
Hi! I would be very glad to get feedback on the exercises from Draw a box community.
Thank you :)
Hey there! I will be looking over your homework today ^^ Congrats on making it through Lesson 1!
Looking over your assignments, I'm fairly sure you're not a complete beginner, so I'm glad you still want to go over the basics with Draw a Box haha
In total, there's really not much to point out in your works. Your lines are confident and straight-forward with little wobbling. On the Superimposed Lines I noticed you have a bit trouble with fraying on the arching and wavy lines. You can add that to your Warm Up if you want to work on it a bit more. In general it's totally fine to have it fraying in the beginning.
Your Ellipses are also great. Very confident line-placing and little wobbling. One thing to keep an eye on here is that we only draw through our ellipses at a MAXIMUM of three times, whereas I see you drawing through them five times in some. So again: Maximum of three times, aiming for only two times.
In the boxes assignment the most important thing were the lines and introducing the student slowly to perspective. It wasn't really the most important thing but you seem to already have a good grasp on perspective and how vanishing points and so on work. Which is also fairly visible in the Rotated Boxes assignment.
Since it's an integral part of Draw a Box and you do have the chance to work on a thing or two on it as well, I still want to send you directly to the 250 Box Challenge. I wish you all the best with it!
Warmly,
Lerin
Next Steps:
250 Box Challenge
Dear Lerin,
Thank you very much for your feedback! It was very helpful and you have emphasized the things I really need to work on.
Warmly,
Pauline
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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