Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
4:20 PM, Monday July 6th 2020
Thank you so much for this opportunity to receive feedback for the lessons!
I started the lesson last year and finished today. Really looking forward to the feedback.
Hi, congrats on completing lesson 1. I'll be taking a look at your homework today. Starting off your superimposed lines are off to a good start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point on these and executing confident lines with minimal tapering until you get to the longer lines and curves. Good job here. Moving onto you ghosted lines and planes. These are both looking really great. You are using the ghosting method to great effect here and are getting smooth confident linework with a high level of accuracy.
Your table of ellispes turned out pretty well. You are doing a great job drawing through all of your ellipses and focusing on maintaining a solid ellipse shape. There is still plenty of room for improvement here but these are off to a great start. Your ellipses in planes exercises are starting to run into some issues with deformed ellipses. This typically happens because you become to focused on accuracy and slow down while drawing your ellipse and it usually ends up comprimising the shape. Please check the lesson notes here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/deformed Right now your focus should be on getting a smooth shape. Accuracy is something that grows with lots of practice. The ellipses in funnels are looking pretty good for the most part. You are slightly deforming them chasing accuracy a little but nothing too bad.
Plotted perspective looks great nothing to say here. Your rough perspective boxes are looking very good. You are once again using the ghosting method to great effect here to achieve some nice linework. You also did a great job drawing the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your estimations were quite off but that is pretty normal and will get a lot better with practice.
The rotated box exercise turned out extremely well. This one tends to be a struggle for a lot of students but you did a really great job here. Great linework overall, good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You also did a very nice job with the rotation of the boxes overall which tend to be the biggest stumbling block for most people. Extremely solid work. Once again you carried your very nice linework over to your organic perspective boxes. There's quite a bit of convergence issues with these boxes but that is pretty normal and you will get lots of practice on this with the 250 box challenge. You are also getting to the point where you might want to consider using lineweight for emphasis a bit. For example in the organic box exercise you could have put some thicker lineweight on the boxes more near the front and have less lineweight on the boxes receding into the background.
Overall, this was a fantastic submission with a good amount of growth overall. Keep up your ellipse practice as that felt like the weakest part of this submission. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge.
Thank you very much for the critique, I will definately work on my ellipses!
Really looking forward to the box challenge!
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