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9:34 PM, Monday January 18th 2021
Congrats on making it through lesson 1!
I have a few notes on your work.
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Your superimposed lines do not overlap much. Beyond just fraying, most of the lines are missing the lines you drew with a ruler. I would recommend doing this exercise a few more times, but use the ghosting method to try to make it so that your lines overlap. After a little most practice with this, you should do a better job aiming for the end point with your ghosted lines exercise too.
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Your table of ellipses are fit in snuggly, which is great! You did a good job with this in the funnel exercise too. In the funnel exercise you start only drawing 1 ellipse instead of drawing 2-3 overlapping line you're supposed to. Remember to draw it multiple times for these exercises as well.
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Throughout the box exercises you draw over lines that you want to improve. This is actually drawing the viewer's eyes to the mistakes. Going forward you need to focus on drawing what you want on the page correctly the first time, and then accepting where the line lands. As well you traced the faces of the boxes in your rough perspective. Do not do that; it removes the illusion of the box. Do not trace over the faces of your boxes or redraw lines. This will be crutial to the 250 box challenge being successful.
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For the rough perspective exercise you should only draw vertical lines, horizontal lines, and lines towards the vanishing point. There are times when your lines go in different directions. Try to focus on making sure your lines follow these core rules of the exercise.
Overall, you did a good job, but practice and focus is needed to master these core ideas. I would recommend doing 1/2 a page of superimposed lines and 1/2 a page of ghosted planes and really focus on making each line straight and precise. I would then recommend doing another 1/3 of a page of rough perspective and really focus on only drawing vertical lines, horizontal lines, and lines towards the vanishing point. do not trace over or redo lines. You can then start the 250 box challenge. As you're doing the 250 box challenge, start each drawing session doing a 15 min warmup of 2-3 exercises from lesson 1.
Great work and I'm excited for your progress through DrawABox!
Next Steps:
Complete the following:
1/2 a page of superimposed lines
1/2 a page of ghosted planes
1/3 of a page of rough perspective
Then:
Start 250 box challenge using lesson 1 as warmup exercises.
11:44 PM, Monday January 18th 2021
Thanks for the evaluation, I will do the next step very carefully.
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