Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

8:12 AM, Tuesday February 1st 2022

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I'm redoing this because I decided that I want official critique. Community critique is nice, but sometimes it just takes a while to get a response. Doing this lesson again wasn't too big of a deal since I wasn't that far into Drawabox. Plus, I think it was beneficial for me since I actually took a long break from the course.

8:35 AM, Tuesday February 1st 2022

Welcome back! Little note regarding that: you can feel free to submit your old box challenge, if you have it, though we will request an extra 50 boxes, done now, that more accurately reflect your current skill level. Before that, however, let me look at this submission.

Starting off, your superimposed lines look fantastic. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Your ghosted lines/planes look quite solid, also, though I notice some hesitation near their ends. Likely, you’re slowing down, as you’re approaching your end point, in an effort to not overshoot, but that’s unnecessary, particularly if it’s causing your line to wobble. More than accuracy, what we’re concerned with here is confidence, so.

Moving on to the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise looks solid. Your ellipses here are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through (if a little lacking in variety – you haven’t, for instance, gone below 30 degrees). The ellipses in planes look great. Despite these more complicated frames, your ellipses here maintain their prior smoothness/roundness. Finally, the funnels are well done, also, and I appreciate the increase in degree. There’s the occasional misalignment, certainly, but it’s never too much, and something that’ll improve in time, anyway.

The plotted perspective exercise looks nice, though, given that it’s done using a ruler, the hatching lines should probably not go beyond the plane.

The rough perspective exercise shows some solid improvement throughout the set. More than that, I’m pleased to see so many unused points on the page! Your line quality is solid, and your convergences fairly good – of course, both will improve in time.

Good attempt at the rotated boxes exercise. It’s big, and the boxes are snug, if their rotation a little slight. There’s some problems near the back, also; mainly the flatness of the far planes, but also the diverging (rather than converging) nature of the depth lines of some of the boxes. Both are things we’ll work on in the box challenge, however, so no need to stress.

Speaking of boxes, the organic perspective exercise looks nice. The boxes themselves are fairly well constructed, and they also flow well as a result of their size, and foreshortening.

Next Steps:

Solid work on this submission. I’ll mark it as complete, so you may head on over to the box challenge. Best of luck!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
8:49 AM, Tuesday February 1st 2022

Thank you so much! I'll try to see if I can find my old pictures I took for the 250 Box Challenge.

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