Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on completing Lesson 1. Let’s take a look at it, shall we?
Starting off, your superimposed lines are looking solid – they’re smooth, all lined up on the left, and of a consistent trajectory. The ghosted lines look quite confident, also, and their overshooting problem improves nicely by the time you reach the planes. 2 critiques regarding those, however. First, be sure to plot start/end points for all of your lines, including and especially the non-diagonal center lines of your planes. Second, remember that each line is drawn once, and only once. In other words, if a line stops short, don’t continue it in a separate stroke; similarly, if a line is incorrect, leave it be, rather than correcting it in a different stroke.
The table of ellipses exercise looks good – your ellipses are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. I notice that your pen will sometimes make contact with the page, during the ghosting; this is not necessarily an issue, but do try to be a little more deliberate about your movements, so that it doesn’t continue happening. The ellipses in planes are nicely done. They’re not quite as rounded as their counterparts in the table of ellipses exercise, and though this is normal, it’s something to work on, so that they may be, eventually. Otherwise, they’re well done. The funnels, too, look solid, but do be careful that you don’t add an ellipse if there’s no minor axis to align it to (like those ones at the edges of your funnels); an ellipse aligned to nothing is of no use to us.
The plotted perspective exercise looks nice – good lineweight, here.
The rough perspective exercise shows some nice improvement over its first page, though the second page is a little lacking in comparison (different day, I suppose?) The only thing to keep in mind here is that you’re not obligated to stick to your first, third, or even tenth guess. After you place a point, check it (by ghosting it to the horizon), and adjust it accordingly. Do this as many times as is necessary, then commit to them.
The rotated boxes exercise shows a good first attempt. It’s big, your boxes are mostly snug, and they do a decent job of rotating. For the moment, this is as good as it gets, so don’t feel bad. Later, however, as you progress through the box challenge, and learn how one goes about constructing a box, you’ll be able to make some informed decisions, here, that’ll take a lot of the guesswork out of the exercise – then, you’ll be able to see some proper progress.
The organic perspective exercise looks good. I do wonder if you’re plotting start/end points for all of these lines, however – the overshooting seems to indicate not. The boxes themselves, however, look solid, and their increase in size, and consistent, shallow foreshortening do a good job of conveying the illusion we’re after.
Next Steps:
Nice work on this submission. Consider it complete, and move on to the box challenge. Good luck!
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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