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9:40 PM, Thursday June 23rd 2022

Hello my name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant with drawabox who will be handling your critique. So before I start this critique a few things needs to be addressed. First off you are missing both pages of the organic box perspective homework from this album. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/organicperspective

Secondly, you appear to have done two of the box exercises(The Rotated Box Exercise and Rough Box Perspective Exercises) at least partially in pencil which is not allowed for official critique submissions. https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/4/why

Since you are missing homework pages and you need to redo the pages that are done in pencil anways I'll handle the whole critique once you submit those revisions.

Next Steps:

Missing two pages of the organic box perspective homework. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/organicperspective

Rotated Box Homework and Rough Perspective Homework pages were done partially in pencil which is not allowed. Please redo them in pen.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
8:08 PM, Tuesday July 12th 2022

Hi Rob,

will be done soon, thanks for the Feedback.

Best,

Nadia

7:22 PM, Thursday July 14th 2022

HI Rob,

homework with missing exercices

organic box perspective 1/1

roatated boxes 2/2

is completed.

Best, Nadia

9:28 PM, Thursday July 14th 2022

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. Your ellipses in funnels are looking fine. I'm not seeing any real issues here. Your ellipses are off to a great start but there's still room for improvement when it comes to accuracy so keep practicing them during your warmups.

The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. You are getting a mix of confident linework here along with some wobble creeping back into some of your lines. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/wobbling This is probably happening because you are more concerned with accuracy now that you are constructing boxes and you are slowing down your stroke to compensate. That hesitation because of your concern for accuracy while making your mark is what is reintroducing the wobble into your lines. Try and rely a bit more on the muscle memory you build up while ghosting your mark and almost make your mark without thinking. This will be less accurate at first but will give you consistently smooth and confident linework which is our first priority. Accuracy will come with mileage and can't really be forced. The other thing I'm noticing, and I can't be entirely sure of this, but it seems like that when you are adding line weight you are switching to a pen with a larger tip. Please use the same fineliner for all of these exercises in their entirety if you aren't doing so. You are doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice.

Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty well. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases(mainly the top and bottom you are getting rotation on the left and right side) but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/notrotating I can see that you were a bit perplexed by the corners and simply left them blank. I'm not going to assign a revision but please make sure you fully complete each exercise even if you don't completely understand the material as this exercise is defintiely meant to push you outside of your comfort zone and getting used to doing that is a big part of learning how to draw. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Both pages of the organic perspective exercise are still missing from this submission. I'll need to see those before I can mark this as complete. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/example

Next Steps:

Missing two pages of the organic box perspective exercise https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/example

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
9:28 AM, Monday July 18th 2022

Hi Rob,

thanks for the Feedback. It's really motivating! I will work on the critic as good as I can :)

I am a bit confused, so I rechecked my last post on reddit and I don't know if you cant see them or oversaw them, but the exercice with the two pages of organic perspectives are posted.

I will post them again now, but theres not much more i can do! or?

Best,

Nadia

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