Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

3:37 AM, Thursday September 12th 2024

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I took about a 2-3 year break from draw-a-box to focus on my college studies. After finishing college, I decided its time for round two. I quit after the 250 box challenge. I am willing to do the grind again (I actually quite liked it), but I was wondering if that would be a waste of time. I pretty much stopped drawing all together when I quit, so I did lose a lot of the progress I made. Would you recommend skipping to lesson 2 or doing the 250 box challenge again.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and review the work. :)

3:58 AM, Friday September 13th 2024

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

Overall you did an excellent 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. You're already well on the right path.

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.

One last thing I want to mention is 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.

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 confidence with the lines and ellipses. Now, about your boxes, you can submit your previous 250 box challenge, plus an additional 50 new boxes just so we can see your current ability/understanding on them. I've seen your sketchbook here and you can just put both the old imgur link and the new link (with the new 50 boxes) in one submission. Don't forget to reread the lesson, since we've made some changes to it recently that you should find helpful. I hope you find them enjoyable again this time around!

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.
12:02 AM, Monday September 16th 2024

Thank you so much for all the feedback!!! I will get cracking on the 50 boxes!

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