HI! I am a self taught artists who taught themselves very badly. I have gotten started on the 250 box challenge and I am so excited! Here is lesson 1 though. Please critique this and yeah I have nothing else to say I guess.
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You are currently missing these exercises in your submission and should submit them before doing 250 Boxes:
and the entire homework for: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/6
It could be possible that you have done it but the Imgur gallery is missing them.
It does appear that you understand the instructions for superimposed lines properly.
It appears that you are attempting to apply the Ghosting Method for your lines properly, although I still notice the wobbling, it might be normal as part of experience as long as you're drawing from your shoulder and confidently with speed. They should improve over time.
Your table of ellipses is formatted properly at a good size and variation and it appears that you applied the ghosting principle for ellipses. It will simply take more practice to produce more solid ellipses and you're on the right track here.
Overall, while you're missing exercises, the exercises you have managed to submit appear to follow the instructions properly and you may continue doing them as you are as part of your future warmups.
Next Steps:
You are currently missing these exercises in your submission and should submit them before doing 250 Boxes:
Sorry! My imgur has been glitching alot. https://m.imgur.com/a/Ytc0moK
Stay Safe and Stay Home!
Me :P
It looks you need to be more confident when making your ghosted lines. You should be consciously making more of an effort to draw from the shoulder as you do the lines as your lines are still very wobbly. It will take some more time and practice if you're doing the steps correctly but be sure to review them.
For Organic Perspective, you should draw through your boxes such that you should be able to see all boxes, even if they're covered by other boxes. You can add lineweight to clarify their relationship on the line overlaps after.
For Rough Perspective, remember that the horizontal lines of the box you create should be parallel with the horizon, and the vertical lines should be perpendicular to the horizon. You want to create the box by extending the front plane towards the vanishing point the best you can before drawing your correction lines towards the horizon.
Your front and back planes for Rough Perspective should only have parallel lines as the boxes are in one point perspective (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/15/guessing)
Other than Rough Perspective and Organic Perspective, it seems that you have understood the instructions of each exercise properly. You will improve over future warmup sessions with these exercises and I think you are ready to tackle 250 boxes.
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 Box Challenge before starting lesson 2.
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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