Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

12:45 AM, Friday March 24th 2023

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I've attempted drawabox 3 times in the past but I didn't take it very seriously and gave up before completing lesson 1. This is my first time completing a drawabox lesson and my first serious attempt at it. I Hope all goes well.

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5:22 PM, Friday March 24th 2023

Hello, CALIMARICHAN !

Great job on completing lesson 1

Your work is great and here are my observations:

1.Your superimposed lines exercise looks great: the lines are smooth, confident. They don't fray at both ends, you did 2 pages and the lengths are different. You did all that you were asked, good job.

2.Your ghosted lines are also good, confident, smooth, very accurate, don't arc much. Great!

3.In ghosted planes exercises you keep the good work with your lines, no remarks. Good job!

4.Your Ellipses exercise also shows effort: ellipses are smooth, planned, accurate, and you draw through them several times. Everything's in place.

5.Your Ellipses in planes exercises also turned out very nice, although one of the pages has some drawing covering some of the planes. Nevertheless, I think what you showed is enough to understand that you completed the main goal of this exercise.

6.Your funnels are perfect: smooth, accurate, aligned to minor axis - great! (Try doing ellipses with different degrees for warmups)

7.In your plotted perspective exercise all the lines are drawn correctly . Great!

8.Your rough perspective exercise looks nice: line work is perfect, I see quite an improvement with the lines converging to the VP on the second page. Good job.

  1. Your rotated boxes exercise is decently done. You clearly understand how to rotate your boxes well and the line work is good!

  2. In organic perspective I like the creativity with how the boxes are coming from a distance. You clearly understood the purpose of the exercise.. ( Although some boxes look flat but don’t worry about it right now you will understand this better when you attempt the box challenge)

Conclusion:-

You clearly understood what was asked of you and attempted the exercises keeping that in mind. Good job!!

All in all,I think you are clear to proceed to the 250 box challenge.

Be sure to revisit lesson 1 for warmups during the box challenge!

You can reply here if you have any questions or thoughts.

Keep up the good work and good luck!

Next Steps:

On to the box challenge!!

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3:03 PM, Sunday March 26th 2023

Thank you for the critique! I'll move on to the 250 boxes challenge.

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