Hello, just done all the homework. Something I noticed is that I still can't draw straight line and ellipse properly enough. I hope I'll still be able to pass, also sorry for the rough perspective, I don't have any colored pen yet and only be able to use pencil.
Hi Rayohijo, congrats on completing the first lesson! I'm Roadkill and here to give community critique on your submission :)
Lines
Your superimposed lines look good - confident and lines staying close together. There are a bit fraying at the end but this is expected so don't fret too much. Your ghosted lines look confident without too much arching but I do see some wavering. Make sure to use your shoulder from start to finish. Your lines do start to arch a little more as you move on to ghosted planes - don't rush lines to finish the exercise but show as much diligence as you showed for ghosted lines. Keep using that shoulder for that straight confident lines. But less wavering, good job!
Ellipses
In table of ellipses, your ellipses are mostly touching the borders and their neighbors pretty snug. When you use it as future warm up, vary the angles of ellipses and widths. For ellipses in planes, some of your ellipses are not touching all four sides of the planes. It may be beneficial for you to plot all four points where your ellipses are touching the planes and do ghosting based on them. Great variance in the planes and ellipses and your ellipses look confident so that's great.
Your ellipses fit snugly against the funnels and are generally aligned to the central minor axis line. They are a little shakey but keep drawing them with confidence and they will get better with practice. Optionally, you can try to get the degree of your ellipses to increase as you move outwards from the center when you do this exercise as a warm up.
Boxes
The plotted perspective looks good and you've clearly demonstrated you understand how to make boxes in 2 point perspectives. In this perspective, the vertical lines will always be perpendicular to the horizon. Of course there may be slight misalignment but try to draw vertical lines as perpendicular as possible.
In rough perspective, I've noticed that some of your front and back faces aren't rectangular. In 1 point perspective, all your vertical lines are perpendicular to the horizon line and all your horizontal lines are parallel to it. Of course it's often caused by inaccuracy which will get better over time. I'm also seeing some minor wobbling and arching- be sure to employ ghost method in all your free hand lines and to use your shoulder for that confident and straight line.
Rotated box is a notoriously difficult exercise that stumps many students. You did a good job showing the rotation of the boxes overall, with boxes mostly converging to different vanishing points. The four boxes directly next to the center box don't show as much rotation - try to rotate them more in future exercises. The gaps between boxes are tight and consistent. Thumbs up!
In organic perspective, your lines are generally converging as they move farther away from the viewer which is great. There are a couple of them with parallel or divergence that results in skewed boxes but you did a pretty solid job overall. Great variance in sizes and rotations too.
Overall
Regarding hatching, it is optional but when you do, be sure to use ghost method and aim to fill a side of box consistent spacing. It will make your box look cleaner and well, more practice never hurts!
One last thing is to not go over your lines again or redraw when you make mistakes. It is generally against the concept of executing planned and confident lines through out the course. Unless it's waaaaay off the trajectory, accept the mistake and trust your muscle memory that it will get better with time and practice.
Anyways, you did a fantastic job and demonstrated that you've grasped the concepts in Lesson 1 so I'm marking it as complete. Add these exercises as a part of your regular warm up routine for all DaB related works. To get the badge of completion or the role in discord, you need 2 agrees from other members but that is not necessary to move onto the next stage. On to the box challenge you go!
Next Steps:
Move onto the 250 box challenge!
Do the lesson 1 exercises as your warm up regularly.
Don't forget about your 50% rule art.
Thank you for the response ^ _ ^ !
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
On the flipside, they tend to be on the cheaper side of things, so if you're just getting started (beginners tend to have poor pressure control), you're probably going to destroy a few pens - going cheaper in that case is not a bad idea.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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