Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

8:23 PM, Friday November 29th 2024

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I had the bad habit of correcting lines on the later perspective exercises, which usually led me into more confusion. However, I found these tasks very rewarding. Thank you for the critique!

5:16 PM, Saturday November 30th 2024

Welcome and congratulations on finishing the first lesson of Drawabox! I'm Mada and I'll be taking a look at your submission.

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9:29 PM, Saturday November 30th 2024

Hi Mada,

Sorry about that! I have updated the settings.

Best,

Will

1:58 AM, Sunday December 1st 2024

Overall you did a great job here, but I do have a bit to mention so let's break them down one by one. I'll write the most important things in bold.

Lines

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. Ghosted lines look correctly ghosted and confident too, and there are barely any arching. You've also demonstrated the same confidence in your ghosted planes with a great accuracy. Nothing much to say except keep up the good work!

Ellipses

Now with the tables of ellipses, you've demonstrated a great understanding of the concept in executing confident ellipses. The ellipses in planes are nice, you drew it confidently and snugly in their respective planes.

The funnels are also looking great; you've managed to fit them snugly and aligned to the minor axis and carried the same confidence as in previous exercises. I have no complaints here as your ellipses will tighten as you get more practice.

Boxes

The plotted perspective has no problems, you've shown a good understanding of how to make 2 point perspective.

You've applied the ghosting method and lines extension correctly for the rough perspective. You also drew the front/back faces rectangular, which is correct for 1 point perspective.

As the notoriously most difficult exercise in this lesson, you've done a great job at doing the rotated boxes. You've rotated them pretty well (while making sure to move the converging lines) and used neighboring elements to deduce the next orientation of boxes, which is the whole purpose of this exercise.

Finally, organic perspective looks great as well. They look like they belong in the same page and the lines converge as they move farther away from the viewer. There are a few hiccups here and there where there are divergences that results in skewed boxes, but overall they're minor and they look pretty solid.

This will get more relevant as you get to the box challenge, but any hatching from this point on should also be done with the ghosting method. It will make your stuff cleaner and more practice is always good! Try to cover the whole area of the box with consistent spacing. Also don't use it to cover your mistakes. This will end up making the page too noisy and confusing you like you've already experienced.

In that vein: do not correct your lines by going over it with more lines. This will make your mistake stands out even more with how bold it is, and generally is against the concept of executing planned confident lines throughout this course. Unless it's waaaaay off the trajectory, accept the mistake and trust your muscle memory that it will get better with time and practice. I believe you can start cultivating the habit to leave your mistakes as it is.

Anyway, I think you've grasped the concepts of the whole lesson and ready to put them into practice in warmups. Keep working on your lines and ellipses confidence. Again, congratulations and keep up the good work!

Next Steps:

Move onto the 250 box challenge.

Do the lesson 1 exercises as your regular warmup and don't forget your 50% rule art.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
6:32 PM, Sunday December 1st 2024

Thank you for the feedback! Your comments were thorough and have helped me key into try he particulars of each exercise.

I have a quick question about warmups. How do I structure them? How many should I do before each drawing session? I know we’re supposed to do them, but not how to choose or structure them.

Best,

Will

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