I wasn't sure if I needed to add a page of the ghosted planes without ellipses. I got the impression from the lectures that you're using the same planes for the ellipses that you drew before, but the submission page had those two as a separate tick box, so I just drew those for todays warmup just to be sure.
Hi there I'll be handling your lesson 1 critique.
You did a good job with your Super Imposed Lines exercise, not too much wobbling or fraying. Your ghosted lines and planes were looking smooth and confident especially you're newest set of planes. I'm happy to see you're experimenting with shapes and sizes as well, experimentation is the best way to learn how things will act on a page.
Your tables of Ellipses are looking good, they are a bit loose but that'll improve as you get more mileage under your belt and continue doing them as warm ups. Your ellipses in planes do square off and pinch a bit, this is a sign that you're worrying about keeping them within their boundaries over keeping them smooth and round. Remember that at this point our priority is keeping them smooth and confident and if they're accurate it's just a bonus. In your funnels exercise you are making the common mistake of not keeping your ellipses equally divided by the central minor axis as shown here. (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned) This is tricky to do but keep it in mind while doing funnels in your warm ups in the future.
Great job on the plotted perspective Boxes. In your rough perspective you did a good job keeping the horizontal lines parallel and the vertical lines perpendicular to the horizon line, and your correction lines are generally in the area of your inteded vanishing point. In the rorated box you did manage to get some good rotation, more so on the left then the right, be careful not to mistake rotation with boxes natural convergences. (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating) You did a great job all things considered though, when you do this in the future as a warm up you may want to give yourself a bit more spacing between each box, when the space between them is very narrow it can be tricky to see the rotation and you may end up relying on the boxes around where you're working. In the Organic perspective I'm happy to see that your boxes are looking quite solid, and that you managed a good variety of sizes demonstrating you understand that further boxes should be small, and boxes close to the viewer are larger. Overall this is a great start and you showed a good understanding of what was being asked in the last 2 challenges which are meant to be a challenge for people at this point.
I'm marking your lesson as complete and moving you on to the 250 Box Challenge where you'll gain a better understanding of construction and refine the process of creating boxes in 3D space.
Great work and good luck in the challenge!
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 Box Challenge before proceeding to Lesson 2.
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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