Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

4:01 PM, Tuesday January 5th 2021

lesson 1 - Google Drive

lesson 1 - Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16R_oB_t0U3hNdFDkaLvtLjH1ko9fGAdA?usp=sharing

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hi this is my work on lesson one i have struggled on making a line over a line and giving it the same trajectory

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1:16 AM, Friday January 8th 2021

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today. Starting with your superimposed lines are coming along fine. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering on the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes are also coming along well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework and while your accuracy could still use some improvement that tends to come with practice more than anything else.

Your tables of ellipses are looking 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 at this stage. Although accuracy is our end goal it tends to come with mileage and consistent practice and can't really be forced. Your ellipses in funnels are definitely having some issues with tilting off the minor axis. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned This is something you should always start to consider when drawing an ellipse. Your ellipses are off to a really nice start and I'm not seeing any real bad habits forming but there's still plenty of room for improvement in terms of accuracy so keep practicing these during your warmups.

The plotted perspective looks great nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective boxes turned out okay. Your linework here is confident for the most part but I am noticing some redrawn lines and a tiny bit of wobble being reintroduced to some of your lines. This wobble is most likely happening because you are becoming more concerned with accuracy and are slowing down your stroke to compensate. The redrawn lines are just a habit you need to try and break. It's much better to stick with one slightly misdrawn confident line than multiple lines which just tend to confuse things. 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 off but that will become more intuitive with practice.

The rotated box exercise was a pretty good attempt. I like that you drew this nice and big as that tends to help when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps fairly consistent. You didn't quite nail your rotations and in a lot of cases here you aren't rotating your boxes at all but are instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating This is all fine given the difficulty of this exercise and this is a great one to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your rough perspective boxes are a bit of a mixed bag. Your linework here is mostly confident but your box construction definitely coulse use improvement. The 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.

Overall this was a pretty good submission that shows nice growth with your line quality and confidence and ellispes. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey fairly well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge.

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
8:15 AM, Friday January 8th 2021

thank you mr rob .. that was a fabulous critique and ialso tried to draw some lines without rotating the page .. and it worked sometimes so thank a loot and i will move on to the 250 box challenge

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