Hello, I'm new to drawabox and have chosen to study here. Here are my exercises for the first lesson as a whole. I always struggled with sketching some of them, which is why some of them appear a little sloppy and hasty, but I tried my utmost.
Thank you in advance for any comments or criticisms!
Hi there.
Congratulations on finishing the first lesson.
Starting from the superimposed and ghosted lines they both seem to be arcing, but apart from that I think the exercises were well done, there’s 2-3 lines in the ghosted lines that do slightly wobble, but they seem to be the exception rather than the rule.
You could try arcing the other way to compensate for it since it seems pretty constant in the arcing.
In the ghosted planes i can see difficulty in the smaller lines when drawing from the shoulder, i think that’s normal, but there is a lot more arcing and wobbling from before, which i think means you didn’t draw these as confidently has before, on the positive side i don’t see a tendency to over or undershoot.
You can take your time with each line and purely focus on it, ignoring everything else but the 2 points you put down on the page and drawing the exact same way you did the ghosted lines.
On the table of ellipses the exercise was done mostly correctly and the overall shape is good but you seem to have a tendency to have it not touch the bottom or sometimes the top. In this one the objective was to get the ellipse to touch all 4 sides.
If you have trouble adjusting your ellipses to touch the bottom of the page you could start from there and now all you have to do is try and make it reach the top since your side to side touching seems to be doing fine.
On ellipses on ghosted planes I think you did it well, and I can't see an overall tendency. There are some that are bigger, there are some that are smaller, so I think it’s about just practicing to get better at doing them.
On the funnels I again see a tendency to not touch the bottom or top of the funnel but apart from that, well done, a lot of people lose confidence on their lines in these. Although some don’t present the same amount of inclination.
It might be a good idea to include these in your warm up routines.
I don’t think there’s much since it was well done and you even added the line weight and shaded side.
In the Rough perspective the extensions correctly were only extended up to the horizon, apart from that, some lines are still drawn with confidence but others are wobbly, there is a very big mistake being made in which you are drawing in the same line multiple times.
It's very important in draw a box to never draw over a line again if it’s not asked from the exercise, since it makes it harder to evaluate the work and the entire purpose of drawing with ink is that every line you put down is final, and so you should be preparing, thinking and ghosting every single one. The extensions themselves seem to have a common tendency of the farther ones go less and less towards the vanishing point.
Please do keep in mind to not reinstate a line when it’s not asked of the exercise.
In the rotated boxes exercise i’m seeing a lot of wobbling and scratching on the boxes themselves, whether that means you didn’t draw with enough confidence and reinstated them or that you tried to rush and didn’t take your time only you know, tough looking at the 3 corner boxes not having their back parts draws, it makes me think it’s a bit of both. On the more nitpicky side the middle box should have been bigger than the other boxes you positioned at the start like this(https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/step3)
In draw a box it’s very important to take your time with every single box and look at them individually and make sure you didn’t miss anything, if you are feeling tired it’s important to take breaks, since it lets you absorb the content better.
In organic perspective on the second page you didn’t exareate the perspective has much has you did with the first one, like shown in this example it’s important to make the last few really big, to try and convey a sense of scale(https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/example) . I can still also see problems with wobbling and some boxes at the back with restated lines.
I think by the end you might have rushed it a bit since I can see a lot more variations at the start in comparison to the end. If you are feeling this way or if you are feeling tired, or that you might not be focused it’s very important to take a break or stop for the day. I can see a lot more cohesiveness from the earlier exercises.
I would really like to see another page of boxes in organic perspective, in which this time you try to ghost every line before putting it down with confidence.
Have a good day.
Next Steps:
Please do a page of boxes in organic perspective
Sorry consulting with other people from the drawabox server, i was a bit too harsh on needing the revision and so you are ready to move on.
(here https://drawabox.com/lesson/250boxes)
If you are interested here is a video on it https://youtu.be/mteUPdCHn4s.
Thank you again for all you've advised; I'll put every suggestion and idea you've given into practice.
Hello, first of all, I would really want to thank you for taking the time to look at my exercises, and every critique you gave, it really helps me understand the mistakes I've done with the activity.
I could really say that I'm quite guilty with some of the feedbacks you said which made me think about what I could do for future exercises from now on.
About the revision, it is totally fine and i would probably take it as a warm-up as exercise so I'll send it again once I've finished it.
Again, thank you so much and and please accept my apologies for the delay in responding; I get busy finishing other exercises but I really appreciate everything.
Hello there, I apologize for the delay in the revision, and here it is.
Oh wow i can tell the diffrence in the care especially with the smaller boxes, thank you very much for the revision.
Thank so much again!
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