Done with lesson 1! This is my second time attempting Drawabox. First was back in 2019, but I stopped halfway during lesson 4.
Lesson 1 took about 8 weeks to complete (one week of working on exercices and the other week free drawing, about 4 weeks total on only exercices).
Thank you for having a look at my homework.
Hello, welcome back to Drawabox! My name is Finch and I will be critiquing your work today.
Lines
You’re off to a fine start with your superimposed lines, you can see some clear improvement in line confidence when comparing page one to two. The only thing that I would pay attention to is that some of your lines tend to fray on both ends: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/fraying
Your ghosted lines look great, they’re confidently drawn.
Your ghosted planes are well done, they’re smooth and accurately drawn. Some of them wobble a bit though, make sure that you prioritize confidence over accuracy: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/wobbling
Ellipses
Your tables of ellipses look nice, they tend to have some distorted ellipses though. Distorted ellipses have the same causes as wobbly lines, so you might want to look at the link I have posted about that in the lines section. What also helps is to warm up if you aren’t doing so already. Your muscles become more used to drawing if you warm up, which means that you make more confident strokes when doing the exercise afterwards.
Your ellipses in planes are already looking much more confident! You’ve made a clear effort to fit the ellipses in the planes while also keeping them smooth. Good job!
Your funnels look great, the ellipses follow the minor axis and fit into the funnel nicely. Sometimes, the beginning or ending of your stroke tends to wobble a bit here. What helps with keeping the end of a stroke smooth is to keep drawing the stroke at the same speed, and directly lifting your pen off the page (while still going the same speed instead of slowing down) once you’ve hit the end of that line.
Boxes
Your plotted perspective submission looks great, the line weight is exactly at the right thickness to make it looks 3D.
Your rough perspective submission is also very good, the boxes are constructed nicely.
Your rotated box looks great, good job at a hard exercise!
Your organic perspective pages are very well done. Some lines on page 2 seem to be corrected, try not to do that, one of the things you learn at Drawabox is to accept your mistakes, since they’re a very important part of the learning process.
You have a very solid lesson 1 submission, which really shows that you understand everything in this lesson. I think that you’re ready to move on to the 250 box challenge, good luck!
Let me know if anything in my critique unclear to you, I’ll try my best to explain it in a more detailed way.
Next Steps:
250 box challenge
Hello Finch, thanks a lot for your thorough critique!
Especially the tip about doing warmups, never did this during lesson one so I was always a bit rusty when starting an exercise. Everything in your review is clear and concise. I will keep your advice in mind moving forward.
Good luck to you as well in your Drawabox journey!
I’m glad that my critique was helpful to you, good luck with the other lessons and challenges!
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