Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

3:46 PM, Thursday June 4th 2020

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Hello! After previously starting and stopping Drawabox ~6 months ago, I'm happy to say that with this go around I really stuck with it and have completed Lesson 1!

I noticed I really struggled with anything relating to perspective, especially the rough perspective and rotated boxes. It got to the point where my old habits started coming out and everything was fighting my ghosting and sometimes I resorted to going over lines because I really wanted things to be "right".

Thanks in advance for your time and for these awesome lessons! They've been a great help so far and I'm excited to keep going.

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5:34 PM, Thursday June 4th 2020

Hello and congrats on completing lesson 1. I’ll be handling your critique today and having a quick glance at this before I start it looks good overall despite your struggles. So let’s get into your superimposed lines. These are all looking quite well done. Confident and pretty accurate and I’m seeing the same with your ghosted lines. It looks like you are taking your time and ghosting plenty and it’s being rewarded with smooth lines with very little wobble. Your ghosted planes are showing the same level of confidence and precision. Well done!

Moving onto your ellipses, these are all looking very good. It’s clear to me you're ghosting and drawing through on every single ellipse. You are maintaining nice shape throughout and are doing a good job with accuracy regarding staying with the tables, planes, and funnels. I’m not really seeing any major issues with these pages. I can see that you were struggling a bit with some rigid ellipses on some of the ghosted planes because you were trying really hard to stay within the bounds but I think that will really improve over time the more you practice. I'd just like to remind you to keep drawing through your ellipses as you continue to move through the lessons. Once again, great job on these!

Your plotted perspective looks good not seeing any issues here. I can see why you felt like you were struggling on the rough perspective boxes. I think you are understanding the perspective well enough on these but it does seem that you might have been ghosting less and more caught up trying to work through perspective problems. You are getting more line wobble than in your previous exercises but honestly these really aren’t too bad. Always remember to plan and take your time with the lines you are going to draw. There’s no need to work through these exercises fast. You also correctly extended your boxes to check your work so good job there as well.

Now your rotated box exercise is definitely the weak point here but don’t let that discourage you. This is purposefully included because it’s so difficult and is really there to get you to start tackling problems that seem beyond you currently. You are struggling quite a bit with keeping your gaps narrow and consistent and also with not properly rotating your boxes. Have another look at these sections of the homework lessons.

https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/guessing

https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating

Finishing up with the organic box exercise I think you are doing a good job with your confident linework but your sense of perspective and convergences need quite a bit of work. Luckily for you that is the next step in your journey as you tackle the 250 box challenge. Working through those boxes is really going to help with your sense of perspective. Overall this is a really well done submission and you should be proud of the work you have done here and I’m giving you the go ahead to move onto the 250 box challenge. Good Luck!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
7:03 PM, Thursday June 4th 2020

Awesome! Thanks so much for the critique, I will definitely take a look at those sections regarding the rotated boxes. And yes, with the organic perspective, I tried to NOT do what I did with rotated boxes so I tried to be really confident with my lines even if my guesswork wasn't the best.

Quick question, do I need to wait for "agreement" on the critique to move forward? Or am I good to go?

7:26 PM, Thursday June 4th 2020

You're good to go. Critiques done by teaching assistants and myself are automatically marked as complete without requiring any third-party agreement. You can basically just trust the little orange text at the bottom of the critique. Community feedback will state that a certain number of agrees are required, official feedback will explicitly state that the lesson is marked as complete.

8:43 PM, Thursday June 4th 2020

Ok I see now, thanks for clarifying!

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