Hi there!
Good job on finishing this lesson.
Your superimposed lines are well packed together with minimum fraying. Overall your lines are a bit wobbly, I believe you might had trouble while repeating the same stroke over the original line. In ghosted lines, I can notice your line quality is surely nice.
Your ghosted planes are very good, all the lines are very well done, they look consistent and confident.
Your overall Line quality is optimum and confident, looks like you understood the concept behind using shoulder to draw. Good at it keep it up.
Your ellipses are also good, and you did draw through them, but, more specifically on the ellipses in planes, some wobbly marks are seen. Some of those aren't touching the line they should touch.
Moving on to your boxes. You rough perspective is also very good and everything is well aligned with the horizon. Although not very noticeable, few of your lines are slightly wobbly. I feel this happened because you might have drawn them at a slower pace, in order to make sure they would reach their destination.
Your rotated boxes are very clean and you did well keeping them packed together. I feel you could have done the hatching on the faces of the boxes facing to each other to visualize them correctly, but, overall, you did a very good job here.
Now, your organic perspective is where yoy struggled a little bit. The compositions are nice, you could have exaggerated the difference between the smaller and larger boxes, in order to better sell the illusion of depth. You could have increased the line weight of the overlapping lines, to highlight which box is in front. You did a good job making it seem that the boxes belong to the same 3D space, although some of the boxes perspective could have been better. This is not too worrisome here, because you'll have time to practice perspective during the next steps.
As I said before, your work here is overall very good. Don't forget to warm up with some of these exercises and good luck for the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
250 Box Challenge
our overall Line quality is optimum and confident, looks like you understood the concept behind using shoulder to draw. Good at it keep it up.
I... actually did not used the shoulder too much, only when the lines were really long. This thing really confused me.
The sheet of paper is just too small to make straight comfortable lines with the shoulder. I don't know if it's because of my tools or my posture but I had to use my elbow most of the time. Is that wrong? I managed to complete all of the exercises with it, but reading the instruction I can't help but to feel I've failed
Hello Again,
Best way to use the shoulder motion is to probably fix your elbow at a comfortable position and consciously put every mark on the paper using your shoulder. Always practice using the Ghosting method as it'll help you to use the shoulder motion even on the tiny sheet of paper. As you have been using your elbow most of the time, it's quite difficult for you to understand this. But if you concentrate on fixing your elbow and using the shoulder along with Ghosting technique, you'll master it.
As seen in your submission, even after using elbow your lines are consistent because it's habitual to you now. As far as every mark you put on the paper is consistent, it's not wrong to use elbow. But here in the Drawabox, using the shoulder to draw is the main and basic purpose. You'll have to use the shoulder motion for Drawabox exercises as it will only benefit you and your overall skills even outside the Drawabox exercises.
And for now, don't feel so low that you couldn't understand and don't stuck on thus thng only. You have to move on to the next homework as you can practice a lot using your shoulder motion in it which is 250 Box Challenge.
All the very best.
I still don't understand how is it really possible to use the shoulder.
The only line I can draw with it are horizontal lines. But If I draw a line from left to right, the hand is on the way and I can't see where the line is going. And if I draw from right to left the hand slides across the paper and the page gets dirty with ink, and I can't see the line I've just draw.
Vertical and oblique lines require a motion that the shoulder can't do. So I still don't get how and when I'm supposed to use it.
When it comes to technical drawing, there's no one better than Scott Robertson. I regularly use this book as a reference when eyeballing my perspective just won't cut it anymore. Need to figure out exactly how to rotate an object in 3D space? How to project a shape in perspective? Look no further.
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