Thank you for looking at my work!
This is my second time going through lesson 1. I have gotten as far as the 250 box challenge (link here:https://imgur.com/a/YTdNt02 please don't critique as I haven't submitted it for official critique yet on this account) but I did lesson 1 with the wrong kind of fineliner (too thin). So, this time I wanted to motivate myself as well as get some detailed critiques.
Thank you very much!
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 fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.
Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. Your ellipses in funnels are having some issues with tilting off the minor axis. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned This is something you should always start considering when drawing your ellipses. Your ellipses are off to a nice start and I'm not seeing any really bad habits forming. There's still plenty of room for improvement when it comes to accuracy so keep practicing these during your warmups.
The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspectives turned out pretty good. It's great that you are keeping up with the confident linework on these. You are also doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice. Nice job.
Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty well. 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 and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases (most noticeable on the left side) but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. Your box constructions are solid and you seem well prepared for the 250 box challenge.
Overall this was a really well done submission which makes sense considering it's your second time through it. I think your line confidence and ellipses are both in a really good place. You are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. I'm going to mark this as complete and you can submit the 250 box challenge in two weeks. Keep up the good work!
Next Steps:
The 250 Box Challenge
Thank you very much for the critique! I will make sure I work the stuff you mentioned into my warmups! I look forward to handing in my 250 boxes!
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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