Thank you for viewing and critiquing my work! My name is Jac and I've been drawing as a hobby since grade school. I first found drawabox.com about three years ago and have been doing exercises casually on and off since then (these submitted assignments have all been done in the last couple of weeks). I'm looking forward from input from the community as I have no idea what that'll be like????. Thanks again! Cheers.
Starting with your lines, they're mostly p good, they do have a bit of wobble at times however:
In these exercises, you should always prioritize confidence over accuracy.
A wobbly line will always be worse than a confident line, no matter how off the confident line is.
If you take a look over the ghosted lines notes you'll see the levels of lines:
Level 1: Line is smooth and consistent without any visible wobbling, but doesn't quite pass through A or B, due to not following the right trajectory. It's a straight shot, but misses the mark a bit. Level 2: Line is straight, smooth and consistent without any wobbling and maintains the correct trajectory. It does however either fall short or overshoot one or both points. Level 3: Line is straight, smooth, consistent without any wobbling. It also starts right at one point and ends exactly at the other.
As you can see, wobbly lines aren't mentioned, which means that they would be worse than level 1.
Ellipses are a bit wobbly too. Remember that in ellipses as well as lines you should try to do them as confident as you can, don't hesitate in sacrificing accuracy to get them smoother and more confident.
Boxes are good in general, there are some things I want to keep in mind though:
-Don't repeat lines, no matter how off they are, keep going as if they had been correct.
-On rotated boxes, some of your boxes weren't actually rotating, careful with that, this mistake is explained here.
-In general, I think you're not always plotting your lines. Before drawing any line you should first draw the starting and ending dots. It's a very important thing, as it's necesary to apply the ghosting method correctly, don't forget it!
-On organic perspective you can clarify overlaps by adding a confident, drawn with the shoulder superimposed line on the part of the silhouette of the boxes that overlap, it's p useful as it helps clarifying the relationship between boxes.
Overall pretty good job!
Next Steps:
First of all, congratulations on finishing lesson 1! Your next step is the box challenge.
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 submissions.
-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts. I can atest to that after having done hundreds of critiques. There are a lot of concepts that I did not understand, and thanks to critiquing I started understanding them. Which made me learn a lot more through the course.
-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high, if you critique some critiques, those would be less critiques I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster.
It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.
Good luck on the box challenge, and keep up the good work!
NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to it so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.
Thank you! I can feel the wobble is still an issue for me (especially with ellipses of small degree). Drawing from the shoulder was hard for me at first, but I think it's gotten easier. Also, I was using dots to plan out my initial lines, but I realize now I didn't do that for all of my lines. I'll focus on these aspects when moving on to the 250 box challenge. Only after focusing on the confidence of my lines will I move on to focusing on the correct placement and after that, then the correct length.
Thanks again. Cheers!
Yup, if you have trouble trying to draw confidently, you might have to make your strokes faster at first to make all lines confident, the objective is to be able to draw both slowly and confidently, but if you need to draw faster to get them confident for now, go for it!
Good luck and keep it up! ^^
When it comes to technical drawing, there's no one better than Scott Robertson. I regularly use this book as a reference when eyeballing my perspective just won't cut it anymore. Need to figure out exactly how to rotate an object in 3D space? How to project a shape in perspective? Look no further.
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