did these back in februari, got 1 frame of organic perspective as assignment from a member and wanted to include that one.
just got back into DaB since februari and
have completed the 250 box challenge + assignments from a member but havent had a response for awhile so starting from lesson1 with the official critique way instead.
thanks for responding // Felix
Hello and congrats on completing lesson 1. I'll be looking at your submission today. Starting with your superimposed lines these are looking pretty good. You are keeping a clear starting point and I'm not seeing much wobble. Good work. Moving onto your ghosted lines and planes these are coming along nicely. You are using the ghosting method to great effect and are drawing smooth confident lines and I can already see an increase in accuracy in your ghosted planes. Keep using this method for your linework and your accuracy will grow the more and more you draw.
Your tables of ellipses look good. You are doing a great job drawing through all of your ellipses but I am noticing a trend of you drawing through a LOT of times in some cases. You want to limit the amount of time you draw through to 2 - 3 times max. I am seeing a bunch of instances of you drawing 4 - 5 times and it's cluttering your drawing quite a bit. Still you are keeping a smooth confident ellipse shape for the most part and that is what really matters. You carried this confidence over nicely into your ellipses in planes exercises. Once again try and keep your ellipse draw throughs to 2 - 3 times but other than that these are looking good. You are focused on maintaining a solid shape instead of slowing down to accurately fit the ellipse into the plane and that is the right call. Your accuracy will build up with mileage and you are better off focusing on keeping a solid ellipse shape. Your ellipses in funnels page is pretty good for the most part. I am noticing a slight issue with your ellipses tilting off the minor axis. Please check the lesson notes here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned
Plotted perspective looks fine nothing to say here. Your rough perspective pages also looks fine but you didn't follow the instructions exactly on these. This exercise was supposed to be done with 3 per page. Please check the lesson notes here https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/15/example You are using the ghosting method well on these and your linework work is smooth and confident. You also did a great job extending your lines back to check your work and as you can see some of your perspective estimations were a bit off and that will improve with practice.
Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty well. You did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You did run into the pretty common mistake of not rotating your boxes enough and simply moving them back in perspective instead. Please check the lesson notes here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating Your organic box exercise are looking quite good. You are keeping up with the good confident linework on these which is great. You are running into some issues with convergences on your boxes which you will get a lot of practice on with the 250 box challenge.
Overall, this was a very good submission. However, I am going to have you do one more page of the rough perspective exercise just because you didn't follow the homework instructions exactly. I think you understand the material just fine but if you followed the directions you would have had to do another page of these anyways. Once you submit that extra page I'll mark this as complete and you can move onto the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
One more page of Rough Perpsective Boxes.
hey Rob! thank you for the fantastic write up and feedback! was easy to understand and well written.
here is a rough perspective page:
there is 14 days until i can submit again right? got the 250 box challenge ready for you guys.
thanks again //
Okay, everything looks good here. Yeah, even if you finished the boxes already you need need to wait 14 days. Keep doing those warmups and you could probably even start looking at the lesson 2 stuff and work through some of the demos. I'd hold off on the actual homework until you get your box critique though.
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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