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8:48 PM, Tuesday December 8th 2020
edited at 12:52 AM, Dec 9th 2020

Hi PIRATOMOSLY0, I would like to give you some insights that maybe you could find helpful.

  • Superimpossed Lines:

    First of all, I seriously recommend you to work in print paper, not in a lined notebook, because you could be really tempted to use the lines of the notebook as a guide. Second, I'm not sure if you were following the instructions properly in the article... I see a very busy result in this sheet, I can't understand why you put ellipses done in ink between randomly lines done in what seems to be pencil. The objective of the exercise is very straight forward: Draw a set of lines using your shoulder in order to train it, superimposing them, ideally doing 5 or maybe 8 of superimposed repetitions, so, your homework should look like this: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/152f6270.jpg

  • Ghosted lines:

    We have the same problems of the first exercise here too, I seriously recommend you to keep in line with the instructions of the article, they're there for guide your and help you, but that only will happen if you follow the rules. Try to do these in printed paper, don't do anyhting more than the ghosted lines, so you could concentrate only in doing a straight line between those 2 points after you've ghosted properly, and finally don't use the same sheet of the exercise for more stuff like ellipses or for test your pen or practice another thing that don't belong to the Draw a Box articles.

  • Planes and Ellipses in Planes:

    While this is certainly a much better achieved result than your early two submissions, I can see some problems in your work here too. I can see that you rush when you draw your ellipses and you're more worried about "fiting" them in the planes than to draw those ellipses confidently. The result is that angular look when there should be curves. The fix to this is to properly ghost your ellipses using our shoulder inside the plane enough times before draw it, so you will optain more curvy and naturally looking ellipses. Try to not do more than 3 loops of the ellipse, ideally, 2 are enough.

    The planes look good, but maybe you can do a better use of the paper by drawing a variety of planes, ones bigger than others and varying more the angles, that will force you to draw a variety of ellipeses too.

  • Ellipses:

    As I've noticed you about the angular look and the plane sides of your ellipses in the earlier submission, here you could apply the same corrections in your ellipses to combat those angulous turns and plane sides. Maybe you could use a reference like this: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/cf2c3057.jpg so you can keep in mind the importance of the minor axis of the ellipses when you draw them.

  • Funnels:

    The first problem here is that you shouldn't draw the two big curves that forms the exterior of the funnel by hand. Use a ruler for the axis and maybe a transposer or even a dish or a CD to draw the exterior lines. Second, try to keep your sheet more clean and ordered, Drawing a bunch of funnels on every little space will make it more difficult to fill them with ellipses, so they will look badly placed or deformed. Finally, as you can guess, you need to apply the corrctions of ellipses here too.

  • Plotted Perspective:

    Aside of been done in a math notebook, these look pretty good. My only objection is that you seems to redraw a bit in some places to correct the boxes. Don't do that, once you're done with a line, there is no way back because ink is definitive, you only need to accept that you failed in that line and move on, thats the core philosophy of Draw a Box. Lastly, you seems to have a bit of a lack of care or confidence when you draw the lines in the sides of your boxes. Try to draw them with the same confidence and precision of a ghosted line.

  • Rough Perspective.

    Here we have a big problem: https://prnt.sc/vyj9s0 . You're reconstructing your boxes, redrawing them to make them look more "boxy". Thats incorrect, once you draw a line, you go to draw another, you don't back to "correct" them because you can't fix ink. What you can only do is to trust in your ghosting and draw that line, keeping in mind the instructions of the articles. Second, you have a lack of confidence here too, basically the same problem of your earlier submissions originated by not ghosting properly before draw a line, so you "autocorrect" the line, making it to look woobly. This is a hard exercise, so I recommend you to do warmups with it.

  • Rotatted Boxes.

    You done a good job here but please don't use the same paper for more than one exercise or for test your pencil or warmpus, its distracting and you lose concentration in what you should be doing!!

    I can see that, in the front of your boxes, you rotate them, but not at the backside: https://prnt.sc/vyjg48 so the back looks more like you've enlarged them and make them smaller, like this: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/d73eea49.jpg

    You need to remember that, these aren't really "boxes" but "headless pyramids" so they fit each one side by side to make a "sphere" of rotated boxes: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/12416ea8.jpg then, you need to keep on mind that, as a box is made of 3 VPs and two of them are resing in the horizon, those VPs rotate move in the horizon maintaining their distance: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/rotation

    I can see your boxes are incomplete too https://prnt.sc/vyjkp0 You should complete the whole thing, it doesn't matter that one or 2 boxes could look misplaced, You will get a lot better when you're done with the 250 boxes challenge.

  • Organic Perspective:

    Good job here!! this looks good, the only points I have here are about the redrawing of your boxes and the lack of confidence in your lines. But I hoe you do the necessary corrections and apply them in every exercise as you do your warmups.

    Note: I recommend you to do warmups of the ellipses in planes, rotated boxes and organic perspective. You could do those by doing just one quadrant of the rotated boxes like this: https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/71381f82.jpg and just one segment of the rough perspective.

    Thats all, hope it helps!

Next Steps:

I recommend to redo the superimpossed lines and the ghosted lines exercises. Please re-read the theory and re-watch the videos if necessary

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
edited at 12:52 AM, Dec 9th 2020
2:44 PM, Wednesday December 9th 2020

Thank you for your reply. I will try to aply your tips.

11:03 AM, Monday December 14th 2020

https://imgur.com/a/1acf3jh Sorry i am sending this only now. I must confess that I didn't really read your advice carefully and I completely missed the "Next Steps" part. I am quite annoyed at myself, because if i just took your comment too heart i could avoid most of my frustration in 250 boxes challange :/

5:10 PM, Sunday December 27th 2020

Hi, sorry for the late response. Those lines doesn't look too bad... but I can see you keep arching them a bit. Have you been practicing these days?

11:21 AM, Tuesday December 29th 2020

yeah, still can't fully get rid of the arching, but i think it got better

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