Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

1:25 PM, Wednesday November 30th 2022

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Here are my lv 1 exercises, I Hope they 're good enough..

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11:00 PM, Wednesday November 30th 2022

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty 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 and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. Your ellipses in funnels are looking fine. I'm not seeing any real issues here. One thing you could have done a bit more with these is start with a narrower degree ellipse in the center and then widen the degrees of the ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel. Please check the example here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/step3 This helps with practicing different degrees of ellipses. Your ellipses are off to a great start but there's still room for improvement so keep practicing them during your warmups.

The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty well. You are getting mostly confident linework here along with some slight wobble creeping back into some of your lines. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/wobbling This is probably happening because you are more concerned with accuracy now that you are constructing boxes and you are slowing down your stroke to compensate. That hesitation because of your concern for accuracy while making your mark is what is reintroducing the wobble into your lines. Try and rely a bit more on the muscle memory you build up while ghosting your mark and almost make your mark without thinking. This will be less accurate at first but will give you consistently smooth and confident linework which is our first priority. Accuracy will come with mileage and can't really be forced. 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 quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice. One thing that can help you a bit when doing a one point perspective exercise like this is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be perpendicular(straight up and down in this case) to the horizon line. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.

Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty well. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. While the rotations here aren't perfect this was a good effort overall. The more you draw and develop your spatial thinking ability the easier these rotations are to handle. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good. While you are getting some confident linework I'm still seeing this persisting problem with being overly concerned with accuracy while making your which is leading to slight wobble in some of your lines. I'm not going to assign as revisions for this but you definitely need to work more on making your marks without hesistation for smooth confident linework. This means your lines will probably be slightly inaccurate for a while but should eliminate the slight wobble problem. Your box constructions are pretty solid for the most part are you are developing a good sense for how box lines converge to vps. The 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you to keep working on this as well as confident linework.

Overall this was a solid submission that showed a nice deal of growth. Your lellipses are coming along nicely. Try and be a little less concerned with accuracy and focus more on getting a smooth confident line as you work through the 250 box challenge. Otherwise, I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work!

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
10:41 AM, Thursday December 1st 2022

Thank you!

I'm going to smash those boxes now!

One question, I'll have to finish the challenge before starting the 2' lv right?

Really thanks for your pretty fast and accurate review!!

3:12 PM, Thursday December 1st 2022

Yep, 250 Box Challenge before Lesson 2

1:28 PM, Friday December 23rd 2022

Question:

Must all boxes be drawn with the horizon line completely above or below the box, or can the horizon line also cross it?

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