Hello and congratulations on finishing lesson 1. I’m Ebni, and I’ll be critiquing your work.
Your superimposed lines look good. They are confidently drawn with all the fraying at one end. Your ghosted lines and planes also look good. It’s good you’re focusing on confidence over accuracy, as accuracy will develop with time.
The tables of ellipses and ellipses in planes look really good. You’re drawing through the ellipses and drawing them smoothly and confidently. In the funnels exercise they are lined up well with only slight deviations from the minor axis line. However, there is a bit of wobble showing here as you slow down to hit the target. Focus on confident ellipses first, accuracy will come with practice.
Your plotted perspective looks good. In your rough perspective exercise there are some issues with the width and height lines not being parallel and perpendicular to the horizon, respectively. Otherwise you are drawing the lines with confidence, and tracing the depth lines back to the horizon to check your work.
For the rotated boxes you did good for such a hard exercise. You’re lining up the corner and edges well, drawing through your boxes, and drawing with confidence. My only note would be to draw larger when revisiting this exercise. Don’t be afraid to use the whole paper.
In the organic perspective exercise it looks like you’re starting to experiment with line weight. Line weight should be applied with the ghosting method and should only use one extra stroke per line. There are also some issues with the perspective, but you’ll get plenty more practice with that in the 250 box challenge.
All in all a very good assignment. Remember to keep revisiting these exercises for warmups. Good luck with the 250 box challenge!
Next Steps:
You should wait to get a badge and then start doing 250 boxes! While waiting, you can continue to practice these exercises. Particularly on the perspective boxes excercise focus on carefully planning out your points before drawing the lines.
Rapid Viz is a book after mine own heart, and exists very much in the same spirit of the concepts that inspired Drawabox. It's all about getting your ideas down on the page, doing so quickly and clearly, so as to communicate them to others. These skills are not only critical in design, but also in the myriad of technical and STEM fields that can really benefit from having someone who can facilitate getting one person's idea across to another.
Where Drawabox focuses on developing underlying spatial thinking skills to help facilitate that kind of communication, Rapid Viz's quick and dirty approach can help students loosen up and really move past the irrelevant matters of being "perfect" or "correct", and focus instead on getting your ideas from your brain, onto the page, and into someone else's brain as efficiently as possible.
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