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6:43 PM, Wednesday July 22nd 2020
Hi and congrats on completing lesson 1. I'll be looking over your submission today. I have to say I'm a bit perplexed about your pen issues with these homework pages. On most of the pages you are having a problem with low ink flow and it's hard to see your linework properly but on the Plotted Perspective page it's perfectly fine. I'm guessing these were done with ballpoint which is fine for this first lesson but make sure you have a fineliner for future lessons. Also when you submit your homework pages please try and only submit what is asked in the homework assignment. If you did extra pages that is fine but just submit your latest/best ones because I'm also having a problem even knowing what order these were done in.
So starting off with your superimposed lines these seem to be pretty good but once again it's tough to really know because your ink flow isn't very smooth so it's tough to get a true impression of how you are making marks. The important things to keep in mind are to keep a neat and clearly defined starting point and to draw your lines with confidence which you seem to be doing for the most part. Your ghosted lines and ghosted planes look pretty good. You are employing the ghosting method well and achieving smooth confident linework that is fairly accurate. I noticed a few places where you redrew lines which is something you want to try and avoid. You are better off sticking with your slightly inaccurate line rather than confusing the image even more with another line.
Your tables of ellipses are off to a good start. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses. You are also doing a good job focusing on a smooth ellipse shape which is carried over nicely into your ellispes in planes. There's a few cases where you are deforming your ellipses a bit to try and fit them into the plane but for the most part you are focusing on getting a smooth ellipse shape which is the priority right now. Accuracy is something that is much more easily built up with mileage rather than purely focusing on it. Your ellipses in funnels exercises have a few issues I want to talk about. Firstly, almost all of your ellispes are tilting off the minor axis which is something you want to keep an eye out for. Please check the lesson notes here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned Secondly, you should try varying the degress of your ellipses as you they go outwards in the funnel by making them a wider degree as they move outwards in the funnel. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/step3 There is still plenty of room for improvement with your ellipses so keep practicing them in your warmups.
Your plotted perspective looks great and it seems like you used a fineliner for this exercise which is good. Your rough perspective boxes are looking pretty good overall. You did a good job extending your lines back on your boxes and checking your work. I am noticing that you are having a tendency to redraw lines here though which is something you want to avoid. Make sure you ghost your lines and put down one confident mark instead of hesitantly putting down lines and then redrawing them.
Your rotated box exercises came out pretty well. You are doing a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. It seems like you eventually reached a point where you got your boxes rotating enough as well. You are still having some issues with rotation but you are generally understanding the concept and will be able improve more with practice. Your organic box exercises are looking okay. Once again you are redrawing your lines a lot which is going to show up more more once you start using a fineliner so it's best to get that habit under control now. Your box convergences are actually pretty decent for the most part but you are going to get a lot of practice with that during the 250 box challenge.
So this was a good submission with clearly a lot of work put into to it. You did each of these exercises multiple times and while I don't like to outright discourage doing extra work I think you might be better off just doing the homework pages as assigned and instead working a few of these exercises into your daily warmups instead of grinding them over and over. Anyways, I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the hard work!
This critique marks this lesson as complete.
9:41 PM, Wednesday July 22nd 2020
i did it with fineliners, but i use many different ones, which some of them not responsive as good to my prefer hold, tripod, i believe it is called, than others and also having different quirks and constructions, that i am not get used to quick enough.
Unfortunaly one particular, that i liked the most and, i think, could use better than others, were only in qantity of one pen, that ran out eventually of ink or get damaged, i am not sure. Edit: maybe i do use extreme tripod variation in hindsight with a bit too low angle than need.
yeah, i know, i fudge these funnels, i just also know, that it need to be preferable not to be done too much times. It was mostly inability to do them it properly, rather than not knowing what to do.
am i need to do 250 boxes for sure? i think i have done them about 3-4 times before, including official one submitted to uncomfortable, back then when he did review himself of these things.
it is not like, i am not do them as warm up everyday.
yeah, by the way, i am actually do drawabox for awhile, quite awhile, but just got officially demoted by uncormfotable from lesson 4... so, i actually did these alot in fact.
2:38 AM, Thursday July 23rd 2020
Considering the circumstances, I'll allow you to do 75 boxes for the challenge instead of 250. Just be sure to mention that I gave you permission to do a smaller amount when submitting the work for critique, so the TA is aware.
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