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4:42 AM, Sunday December 6th 2020
Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a decent start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point and all of your tapering at the opposite end. The one thing I'm noticing here is your seemed extremely concerned with accuracy which is influencing almost all of your exercises. Your ghosted lines and planes are being affected by this as well. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/8/wobbling I'm seeing quite a lot of wobbly linework here and it's definitely something you need to work on. I would read the section on using the ghosting method again and also look at this section on wobbly lines. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/wobbling Although accuracy is our ultimate goal our first objective is smooth and confident linework even at the expense of accuracy.
I have to say I really appreciate how much work you put into these exercises but for some of these you've crammed so much into them that it's basically too hard for me to even give a critique because you are covering up all of the necessary information I need. This is happening with your ellispes in funnels as well as rough perspective boxes. I wouldn't normally ask you to redo these and I do feel a bit bad about it considering how much work you put into this. At this point though like I said I just even critique these because I can't even tell what's happening. Try and follow the examples a bit more and don't just cram as much as possible into every exercise. So looking at your table of ellipses this off to a decent start. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses but I do think you are having a wobbly line problem with your ellipse shapes. Basically for the same reason I mention previously. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/deformed It's the same issue with your ellipses in planes. Like I said I need you to redo the ellipses in funnels page because I can't even tell what's happening there. Try and make it look more like the example homework. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/example
The plotted perspective looks good nothing to mention here. Your second page of rough perspective boxes turned out fine for the most part although I do think you are simply drawing way too many boxes per exercise and it's making your line extensions just blend together. I'm going to have you redo one page of these and try and make it more like the example homework. Like I said I appreciate the effort here but it's frankly too hard to critique with so much going on. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/15/example The first page I don't think you extended your lines correctly so I'm going to have you redo one page of these.
Your rotated box exercise was clearly a bit of a struggle. You did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps somewhat consistent. You are struggling quite a lot with understanding box rotations and you are really just drawing boxes slight moving back in perspective instead of rotating at all. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating The good news is that I don't exactly expect you to understand this yet and I think after working through the 250 box challenge you have a better sense of spatial aware and will probably have a better understanding of this exercise. Your organic perspective boxes turned out pretty decent. Your linework seems to be getting more confident and improving which is good to see. Your box construction are okay for the most part but I am seeing so wonky boxes here and there. The 250 box challenge will be a good next step for you.
Overall this submission had a lot of hard work put into it but I still am going to have to redo 2 pages. Once you get those submitted I'll take a look and then you can move on to the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
1 page Ellipses in funnels.
1 page Rough perspective boxes
11:37 AM, Sunday December 6th 2020
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11:06 PM, Sunday December 6th 2020
Your ellipses are definitely an improvement and feel more confident overall which is great. You seem to really want to overlap your ellipses while homework exercise is really about trying to keep your ellipses tangent to one another. I'm not going to have you redo this again because you are getting in a lot of ellipse practice this way but try and follow the directions a bit more carefully. Your rough perspective boxes came out okay but you are extending the lines on your boxes vertically when you don't need to be. You only need to extend the lines that are receding to the vanishing point on the horizon line. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/15/step6 Once again I'm not going to have you redo this but really try and follow the directions a bit more for future lessons.
Overall your submission was pretty solid and you clearly a putting in a lot of work. I think you are understanding most of concepts these lessons are trying to convey fairly well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the hard work!
Next Steps:
The 250 Box Challenge
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