Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

4:11 AM, Thursday July 2nd 2020

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Hi,

Being new here and really excited to join this amazing community.

This is my first submission for Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes; any constructive feedback is welcomed.

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4:25 PM, Thursday July 2nd 2020

Hello and congrats on completing lesson 1. I'll be taking a look at your homework today. Starting off your superimposed lines are looking good. You are keeping a clear starting point on these and getting a pretty normal amount of fraying on longer lines and curves. Moving onto your ghosted lines and planes. These are good for the most part. I was noticing a bit of wobble on some of your ghosted planes. Just want to remind you to always ghost and draw from your shoulder. This seems to have gone away by the second page though. So good work there.

Looking at your table of ellipses these are off to a good start. You are doing a great job drawing through all of your ellipses but you might be shooting for accuracy a bit too much. Right now you want to be focused on a smooth confident ellipse shape for the most part. While you should be striving for accuracy you don't even want to deform your ellipse shape to try and nail it. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/deformed Your ellipses in planes is running into a bit of the same issue. Now I am seeing improvement on this as you worked through these pages but it's still something you should be working on. Your ellipses in funnels came out great for the most part. You are deforming your larger ellipses slightly but it's really not much of an issue. Good work overall on these.

Plotted perspective looks good no issues here. Your rough perspective exercise turned out quite well although you didn't follow the instructions exactly. Each page was supposed to be 3 exercises split up into one page like the example page shown here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/15/example What you did draw was pretty good though. You are clearly using the ghosting method well to get smooth confident linework and you did a great job extending your boxes back to check your work.

Your rotated box exercise turned out very nice. Fantastic linework on this and a great job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You did struggle a bit thinking through the spatial problems here which is perfectly normal at this stage. You also had some issues with not rotating your boxes enough which is another pretty common mistake. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating Overall though this is a really good attempt. Finally your organic boxes turned out okay. You kept up with your confident linework but you might want to start thinking about emphasizing lineweight on the more forward boxes and less lineweight on the boxes that are moving back in the picture. You also were struggling with convergences quite a bit on these and that is something you will get a lot of practice on with the 250 box challenge. You also didn't follow the correct homework format on these. It's supposed to be laid out the same way at the Rough Perspective Exercises with 3 exercises on one page.

Overall, this was an excellent submission but i'm still going to have you do 1 more page of rough perspective boxes and 1 more page of organic perspective boxes. Follow the instructions on these and do 3 exercises per page just like in the example. You are understanding all of the concepts very well and this is all well done for the most part but another part of working through these lessons is following the homework instructions exactly as written. So once you get these revisions submitted I'll mark this as complete and you can move onto the 250 box challenge. Great work. Keep it up!

Next Steps:

1 more page of rough perspective boxes and 1 more page of organic perspective boxes. Follow the instructions on these and do 3 exercises per page just like in the example.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
1:46 AM, Wednesday July 8th 2020

Hi Rob,

Thank you for your detailed reply and review.

It seems that I had a misunderstanding in homework requirement for these two sessions. Here is the link for the redo: https://imgur.com/a/KqOuUTj. If you have any trouble opening this link, kindly inform me.

Have a nice day!

Rin

4:07 AM, Wednesday July 8th 2020

Alrighty, these look pretty good. Gonna mark this as complete and good luck with the box challenge!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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