Since Uncomfortable said I can't self-deprecate or self-critique, I'll do the opposite. This is the best Lesson 1 submission you'll ever see!!!!! :P
Thank you so much in advance for taking the time to review my homework. I truly appreciate it and look forward to your feedback as well as the 250 Box Challenge!
Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.
Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. Your ellipses in funnels are having some issues with tilting off the minor axis. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/notaligned This is something you should always start considering when drawing your ellipses. I'm also noticing that you are starting to deform your ellipse shapes at the edges a bit with a very sharp turn instead of a curl. So keep that in mind when doing these more narrow ellipse shapes. Your ellipses are off to a good start but there's still room for improvement so keep practicing them during your warmups.
The plotted perspective looks good although a few of the vertical legs on your boxes are slanting a bit. It's important to realize in a two point perspective drawing that all of your vertical box legs should be perpendicular(straight up and down) to the horizon line. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. It's great that you are keeping up with the confident linework on these. You are also doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice. One thing that can help you a bit when doing a one point perspective exercise like this is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be perpendicular(straight up and down in this case) to the horizon line. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.
Your rotated box exercise is obviously a bit of a struggle. While you drew this at a decent size one thing that would have helped you here would have been to just draw this a bit bigger overall. Drawing bigger really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent for some of the boxes you drew. The problem is that you gave up about halfway through on this exercise. A big part of learning how to draw is getting comfortable working outside of your comfort zone and getting more used to failing and learning from your mistakes. Unfortunately in cases like this we can't analyze your mistakes because you didn't finish the exercise. So as a revision I'd like you try another and draw it bigger overall. Drawing it bigger will make it easier to think through the more difficult rotations at the corners and outer rows. Also I would review the lesson materials for this sections again to try and get a better handle on how to draw the outer rows and corners. I'm not expecting it to be done well or even correctly but the attempt must be made in order to learn. Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. Your box constructions are relying somewhat heavily on parallel lines for your box constructions which is leading to divergences in some cases. The 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you in order to develop a better understanding of how box lines need to converge to vp's.
Overall this was a solid submission that showed a good deal of growth. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along nicely. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. Once you get that revision submitted and I take a look you can most likely move on to the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
One page of the Rotated Box Exercise - Give this one another shot and draw it bigger overall. Review the rotated box lesson materials again to get a better idea of how to handle the outer rows and corners.
Thank you so much for your feedback. I actually appreciate you giving me the Rotated Boxes as a revision because I didn't understand it at all when attempting it the first time. Now, after watching the videos for the exercise and reading the exercise instructions about 10 more times, it finally seems to have clicked a bit. It's still rough, but I'm starting to understand this idea of the sliding vanishing points now. All that to say, here's my revised Rotated Boxes Exercise:
Thank you again for your feedback and your time.
Alright this is looking much better. While the rotations here aren't perfect this was a good effort overall. The more you draw and develop your spatial thinking ability the easier these rotations are to handle. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge!
Next Steps:
The 250 Box Challenge
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Moreover, due to the challenge of its use, it teaches you a lot about the nuances of one's stroke. These are the kinds of skills that one can carry over to standard felt tip pens, as well as to digital media. Really great for doodling and just enjoying yourself.
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