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10:49 PM, Monday May 23rd 2022
HI Nim, welcome to Drawabox and congrats on finishing lesson 1. I'm kL, still a beginner and I will try to help you with your submission.
- Lines
a. Superimposed Lines
- Quite a wobbles on the first page specificly on medium and long lines, and then it gets smoother and more confident on the second page, showing that you learn and starting to understand how to draw from your shoulder for smooth confident lines. Well done for this exercise, make sure to practice it often for consistency.
b. Ghosted Lines
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Well executed, although there's a little bit curve at the end of the dot, showing that you want it to be accurate. As it state in lesson 0 prioritize a smooth confident lines over accuracy because accuracy requires time and practice. It's alright to get overshoot or the line get sideway a little bit for now.
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Your Ghosted Lines are too few, so I would like you to do one more page of https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ghostedlines. Try to draw more Ghosted Lines like in the example and prioritize smooth confident lines.
c. Ghosted Planes
- Very good but you getting wobble lines again in this exercise. I would like you to do one more page of https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ghostedplanes without the ellipses, this time prioritize smooth confident lines.
- Ellipses
a. Tables of Ellipses and Funnels
- You did very well on both exercises, well done.
b. Ellipses in Planes
- Some of your ellipses got deformed https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/deformed but you did pretty good here, well done.
- Boxes
You did some re-drawing lines on your Box Exercises. Don't re-draw line, stick with initial line you put down even if it's a bit off. Re-drawing line only make things messy and confusing.
a. Plotted Perspective
- This exercise actually allow us to use ruler and you did very well without it, well done.
b. Rough Perspective
- You also did pretty well here and as you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice.
c. Organic Perspective
- You did pretty good here although your box constructions are relying pretty heavily on parallel lines for their constructions which is leading to some weird divergences in some cases. The line constructions after initial Y line suppose to converge to their respective vanishing points. The next lesson and exercise, 250 Box Challenge, will teach deeper understanding how to construct box with each line converge to their respective vanishing points.
The three box exercises above actually require us to create three panels on each page https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/15/example, https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/example, and https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/example. I will not ask revision here but please read the instruction of lessons forward more thoroughly.
d. Rotated Boxes
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Your Rotated Boxes turns out decently. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes but one of the reasons you ran into some problems with this exercise is because you didn't keep the gaps between your boxes narrow and consistent https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/guessing.
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You also running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/notrotating . This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved.
Overall this was a solid submission that showed a nice deal of growth. You seem getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. Do both revisions and I will mark your lesson 1 complete. Good luck.
Next Steps:
When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.1:05 AM, Tuesday May 24th 2022
Thanks for the submission! Here's my revisions:
5:08 AM, Tuesday May 24th 2022
Still wobble a little, keep practise both exercises and superimposed lines frequently. Congrats on completing lesson 1, best luck on 250 Box Challenge.
Next Steps:
250 Box Challenge
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