Hello Juriga.

I can see that your lines were drawn with confidence, with wobbling on some of them, probably because you are getting used with using your shoulder. That will get better with practice.

However, It seems that some of your ellipses were not drawn through 2 or 3 times. Also, a lot of ellipses were not touching the bounds, on the Table of Ellipses. Try to keep that in mind when doing these exercises again on your warmups. Good job, however, on keeping your ellipses touching each other.

Another thing is that your ellipses have tilting minor axes, on ellipses in funnels. Their minor axis is clearly not alligned with the line that halves the funnel. You need to work on this on yofollowing exercises, you did a lot of chicken scratching.

On the following exercises with boxes, you did a lot of chicken scratching on your boxes edges. I understand that you tried to make your lines thicker to help you see the perspective, but these extras lines must be in the same way, with confidence and using the ghosting method. Usually, passing through them only 1 more time is enough to make your lines thicker, in subtle way. Your lines must not "shout " with excessive thickness. You wil see that better on the 250 boxes challenge's explanation page.

Congratulations on finish your Lesson 1. Hope you continue improving, and dont forget that doing your warmups will help you improving faster.

Hello!

Congratulations on completing your first lesson here in DrawABox! Glad to hear you’re feeling more confident in your work. Getting this far is an achievement all its own, so good work!

So! Let’s get right into discussing your linework. Starting with your superimposed lines, most of them look correct, but there are a few concerns I’d like to cover before moving on. One common mistake that can happen with this exercise is when the lines you draw “fray” on both ends. This happens a few times in your work, and can result from not utilizing the time needed to position our pen accurately at the starting point. Taking the time we need to prepare our lines will be a recurring theme going forward, and is absolutely essential in building confidence with your linework.

Before we continue, there are two more things I feel the need to quickly mention. There are a good few lines that arc from the start point to the end point. I personally find rotating the page until you locate that “sweet spot” to be very valuable in countering issues like these. The Ghosted Lines assignment page talks more about this in detail if you still find yourself struggling. Lastly, and I’m guilty of this as well, we should only be drawing the line one time. Even if the line isn’t accurate, don’t repeat the line a second time, simply proceed as if it has been drawn perfectly.

Moving on to your ellipses. The ellipses placed in your ghosted planes look good, and it seems you started to get a good feel for the exercise. Though, as we move to your two pages of tables, I start to see signs that indicate that this exercise was being worked through too rapidly. Because it helps with building confidence, each ellipse should be drawn over specifically 2-3 times before moving on to the next. Additionally, many of the sections show ellipses that either overlap or contain too much space between shapes. Ideally, these would be touching, but not overlapping. It’s not expected to do this perfectly, but I do get the sense there is room to improve here. As such, I’d suggest taking a few minutes to thoroughly reread the various assignment pages regarding ellipses, and really analyze what the lesson is trying to teach.

Finishing up with your boxes, there’s a couple more points I feel are important to go over. Feel free to correct me if I’m mistaken here, but it looks as though you stopped placing points/dots on the “far” side of your boxes. Adding these markers helps immensely in visualizing your goal, and is another critical strategy used in the 250 box challenge. Also, I’ve personally found adding weight to a line to be more visually appealing by instead pressing down slightly harder with your pen as you draw your line, as opposed to drawing many smaller lines.

If I could leave a few suggestions before concluding, it would be to emphasize the value in thoroughly studying the lesson notes before each session as a refresher on how the assignments are handled. Specifically, use this time as an opportunity to examine the homework examples and see what the end result of your work should be. Additionally, make sure that you’re slowing down and guaranteeing accuracy and confidence in your lines.

Going forward, I’d be interested in seeing you complete another page of ellipse tables, in addition to one more organic perspective page as warm-ups going into the 250 box challenge. After that, focus on warming up with your choice of box exercises before each session.

Well, that’s it! I hope this ends up being helpful to you as an artist! I know this is a lot to read, but I tried my best to not leave anything out. With that said, congratulations again on completing Lesson 1, and good luck in the 250 box challenge!