Hello, I'm tawny_0wl and I'll be critiquing your work today!
Lines and Planes
I see some fraying on both ends of the superimposed lines, I recommend you take your time and place the pen in the correct location before proceeding.
Fraying on the far side is normal and is expected if you're executing the marks confidently and maintaing trajectory.
Besides that, your lines look fairly confident.
Ellipses
You drew through them twice and kept the shape fairly even. I'm assuming you used the ghosting method.
Your ellipses are snug enough in my opinion. Yes there are some gaps and it's good to identify mistakes and areas you can improve on, but don't get too hung up on the ellipses not fitting perfectly, accuracy comes with time and practice.
Good funnels. Ellipses are aligned to the minor axis line. I like that you tried to vary them too.
All in all, well-executed exercises.
Boxes
Plotted perspective looks clean. In the Rough Perspective exercise, I see some wobbly lines/hesitation. I suggest that you ghost through the motion more, engaging your shoulder, as many times as you need to get used to the motion and draw a single, confident line. Line extensions were done correctly, remember to also keep the back and front planes of the boxes rectangular.
Another thing, for this exercise, the vanishing point should be positioned more towards the center of the frame, you tend to stray a bit too far from the center.
The Rotated boxes exercise is tough, but you are consistent in your work and the boxes don't diverge that much. Props for completing it and not giving up.
Nice rotations in the Organic Perspective exercise. Well done!
Next Steps:
Just one page of Rough Perspective with the vanishing point in the center of the frame (or at least close to it)
Rapid Viz is a book after mine own heart, and exists very much in the same spirit of the concepts that inspired Drawabox. It's all about getting your ideas down on the page, doing so quickly and clearly, so as to communicate them to others. These skills are not only critical in design, but also in the myriad of technical and STEM fields that can really benefit from having someone who can facilitate getting one person's idea across to another.
Where Drawabox focuses on developing underlying spatial thinking skills to help facilitate that kind of communication, Rapid Viz's quick and dirty approach can help students loosen up and really move past the irrelevant matters of being "perfect" or "correct", and focus instead on getting your ideas from your brain, onto the page, and into someone else's brain as efficiently as possible.
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