Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

2:29 AM, Thursday September 9th 2021

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i would have preferred the photos to be brighter but the lighting in my room isnt particularly good so ill just use these photos

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2:56 PM, Thursday September 9th 2021

Hi Ruinone! Welcome to DAB, I'll be reviewing your homework today;

On Linework:

Linework is looking really quite good for a beginner. You're hitting all of the main points, so I don't feel much of a need to re-iterate anything in the lesson. You're doing really well here, keep it up.

Ellipses are looking really good too; you're keeping them very tight in your draw-throughs which is impressive.

Really not much to critique here, you're doing great.

On perspective:

On the rough perspective exercise you show the ability to find convergences with a reasonable level of accuracy, though the more advanced exercises pose a little more challenge for you (as expected). All in all though, you do really quite well at these exercises.

One error I notice on your rotated boxes is that some of your boxes don't actually rotate, notably on the outermost ring https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/notrotating. I've marked the boxes on which you do that, though you're generally good at avoiding this mistake. https://imgur.com/a/lUUbjME

On the Organic perspective exercise, you're making two mistakes.

First mistake is that you don't always find the right convergences on your boxes. This is a pretty normal mistake, and one you'll invariably solve as you have more practise grappling with perspective. I point it out just for clarity as to what's going on.

The second mistake is that the foreshortening of your boxes (see notes: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/7/foreshortening) is not kept consistent, which breaks the illusion of perspective in how the boxes are placed relative to eachother.

Overall, really good work here. You've done well.

Next Steps:

Doing really well so far. Move on to the 250 box challenge now.

See you there!

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12:33 AM, Friday September 10th 2021

Thank you!

although i am not actually a complete beginner

ive tried the course before at some point but stopped going at it

and i didnt post my exercises

i decided to retake it and do it more seriously this time

didnt have the old papers so i started from scratch

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