Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

12:38 AM, Wednesday June 1st 2022

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Hello,

I've completed lession 1. Any Crituque would be appreciated!

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2:41 AM, Tuesday July 5th 2022

Hi, great job on completing Lesson 1!

Good job on plotting your lines and keeping the fraying only on the ends on Superimposed Lines. A prevalent problem on your Ghosted lines and Ghosted Planes is that your lines are wobbly. When ghosting your lines, don't slow down or worry about making them perfect, just swiftly ghost a few times then put your pen down and make a quick stroke. Of course, this wobbliness will go away over time as you progress DaB. I also suggest just like DaB does, to incorporate one of these exercises as a warm up in future lessons. The most helpful one for line confidence that fixed my line confidence problem is Ghosted Lines.

Onto your Ellipses, just like your lines, your ellipses show a lack of confidence as well. A seperate exercise I suggest doing to help with ellipse confidence specifically is filling two pages with ellipses. This is something I picked up on from Brent Eviston's course The Art and Science of Drawing, which is also a great course to do if you can (sorry if it seems like I'm advertising it's just a good course that I've seen is common to do alongside DaB). Basically, the first page of ellipses you focus on drawing ellipses that are circles, while on the second page you fill it up with ellipses that are ovals. The main focus of it is to practice drawing ellipses with different shapes, sizes, and degrees which helps your ellipses look more confident, less loose, and help you build muscle memory. Also, on your Funnels, if you mess up on something it's alright and you should still draw ellipses even though the boundries aren't properly aligned. As long as your aware that you messed up and understand the meaning of the lesson, there's no need to give up on it. Additionally, you show clear signs of understanding of these lessons and you're doing very well.

On your Boxes, first things first, when hatching your lines on boxes that are facing the viewer. Don't rush them and have them floating on the Boxes. Take your time to ghost the lines and make sure the hatching is evenly spaced, this helps your work more clean, easier for the viewer to look at, and shows that you put effort into these exercises. Also, Plotted Perspective required you to use a ruler for each line you drew, this applied to the hatching on the boxes as well. On your Rough Perspective, you were supposed to draw a line back to the vanishing point to see how your estimations were https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/step6 . I'm not sure if you accidently forgot to do this or ignored it entirely but just making sure. Regardless of that, I can see that you were drawing your boxes using the vanishing point so it's most likely you just forgot to draw the lines. Your Rotated Boxes and Organic Perspective are good, just work on that line confidence.

Overall, your Lesson 1 Submission is good and I think you're ready to move onto the 250 Box Challenge. The problems I pointed out can easily be resolved with more practice and awareness. Good luck on the 250 Box Challenge ! :D

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250 Box Challenge

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12:31 AM, Monday December 19th 2022

Commenting on Ghosted Lines

Slight wobbling on some of the lines. I suggest going a tad faster. Even though it might be less accurate, it will lead to a smoother line.

If you do it slower, you might catch yourself trying to course-correct, or you may lose focus. Going for a fast-smooth stroke avoids all that. Accuracy can be worked on later, I feel.

I hope this helps!

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