Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
7:29 PM, Tuesday February 8th 2022
Hello! This was fun but challenging. I think everything is here. Cheers.
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8:23 PM, Tuesday February 8th 2022
Hello I'll be criticing you're work
Lines: I've noticed you're arching your lines slightly this could be because your not drawing using your shoulder or you simply just aren't used to it yet something I did to help was sub consciously think about drawing my line in the opposite direction it was arching in. You can also rotate the page to find what angle is more comfortable for your arm to make marks.
Ellipses: You're Tables of ellipses are quite good you seem to be drawing through them twice as you should and most of them are staying within the bounds of the box however there a few cases of them going out of bounds or floating to minimise this try to ghost you're ellipses more to get more arm muscles more ready for the mark your about to make.
As for you're Planes of ellipses the right thing i notice is for the most part your ellipses are quite clean. However you seem to be focusing more on making sure your ellipses fit within the plane while you should be thinking about this and trying to achieve this your should be focusing mostly on making sure you're ellipses are confident and even as there's a few ellipses that are pinched near the end or distorted.
As for your Funnels of ellipses they turned out quite well there correct with the minor axis confident and aren't overlapping, floating or going out of bounds much. There is a few expectations but just ghost your ellipses more and you shouldn't have and trouble.
Boxes: For your Plotted perspective all your boxes are going back to the vanishing points correctly.
As for your Rough perspective try to make sure that all your vertical lines are perpendicular to the horizon line and all your horizon lines are parallel to the horizon lines (aka there should be no lines at an angel) there's a few boxes whose vanishing points are off but it's not too big of a deal as there will always be small mistakes when doing freehand perspective.
Your Rotated Boxes are really good there close together like they should be and the rotation is consistent the only thing i would bring up is you should try to push the rotation more the one at the very top for example should be much more foreshortened.
Finally your Organic perspective overall I don't have much to say on it there's some cases we're on part of the boxes foreshortens more then another bit any and all problems you have with boxes will be addressed with the 250 box challenge which I highly recommend
Next Steps:
I'll mark your work as finished overall your work is good and as long as you take the feedback in mind and remember to do the exercises in lesson 1 as warm ups you'll be fine remember there stuff you learn here at drawabox will be warmups you do for years
I would recommend moving on to the 250 box challenge
Hope my critic was helpful sorry if its too long
9:48 PM, Monday February 14th 2022
This is excellent feedback, thank you for taking the time! I have started the 250 box challenge and I'll try to incorporate your advice. Cheers.
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