Hi, and welcome to drawabox! I’ll be looking through your submission today~
Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. I’m also pleased to see that the little hooks at the end of them in page 1 (indicative of the student dragging their pen back to the starting point before it’s fully off the page), are nowhere to be seen in page 2. The ghosted lines/planes look good- your lines are confident, and fairly accurate, too. Try to make a little more of an effort to have the non-diagonal center lines go through the center point of the plane, though.
In regards to the table of ellipses exercise, you’re on the right track. They’re smooth, and rounded, if a little loose. If you could spend a little longer ghosting them, you’d get their rotations to match up a little more, and the occasional spacing issue would be better, too. Also, see if you can lift your pen off the page at the end of your rotations, rather than flicking it off- it’ll get rid of those little tails at the end. The ellipses in planes exercise looks good, the ellipses being nice and rounded, despite the added difficulty of having to hit all 4 sides of the plane. The previous advice applies to these too, however. Remember that the step when you decide how your mark is going to look, and the one where you execute it, are different ones. There’s no reason why your ellipses can’t be confident and accurate. By the way, try to be a little more mindful of the number of times you rotate around your ellipses. A minimum of 2 times, is the recommendation. The funnels exercise is well done. Your ellipses are snug, and properly cute in half by the minor axis.
Nice job on the plotted perspective exercise. The rough perspective exercise is really well done, too. Not only are your lines confident, but they converge fairly comfortably too. There’s the occasional error, however, so I’ll recommend spending a little longer on the planning phase, if you can. Don’t feel obligated to stick to your original points. If you find one to be a little off (do so by ghosting it to the horizon, and seeing where it intersects it), absolutely feel free to adjust it. Nice job on the rotated boxes exercise. The boxes are snug, and they rotate nicely. See if you can draw a little bigger next time, though- it’s useful in that it gives your brain some room to think through these various problems. Finally, the organic perspective exercise looks good. There’s a tiny issue in regards to their foreshortening, but the boxes themselves look good, and the increase in size as they move closer to us suggests the illusion fairly well. There’ll be plenty of time to worry about their foreshortening in the box challenge, anyway, so no worries. Speaking of, head on over to it!
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250 box challenge
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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