Hey, I'll be taking a look at your work today.
Lines
The superimposed lines exercise looks really good, showing a smooth motion and fraying on only one side. The ghosted lines exercise show good planning and confidence, although I can see that some of the lines tend to arc. You've also shown the same level of confidence in the ghosted planes exercise.
Ellipses
With the tables of ellipses, you've demonstrated a good understanding of the concept in executing confident ellipses. They're also fit snugly against the borders inside the table, which is good. One tiny issue that I can see is that the lower end of your ellipses tends to be a little bit pointier than the higher end, which sometimes produces more of an oval shape, but everything else is good. The ellipses in planes look smooth and confident, although you could've aimed towards touching the four edges of the planes better. The funnels exercise is also looking great, you've managed to align them to the minor axis and also making them touch the funnel. This is optional, but you can attempt the extra step of varying the ellipse's degrees as you move outwards in your warmups, as mentioned here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3
Boxes
The plotted perspective has no problems, you've shown a good understanding of how to make two point perspective. The boxes in the rough perspective have the front and back face rectangular, which is correct for one point perspective. You've also applied the lines extensions correctly and used the ghosting method. Be careful of putting the vanishing point of one point perspective way off to the side, as you risk skewing the boxes further from the vanishing point (where two vanishing points is more suitable for these boxes). As the most difficult exercise in this lesson, you've done a great job at doing the rotated boxes. They don't converge towards the same vanishing points and you've drawn through them. Finally, organic perspective shows great use of the ghosting method, however, almost all of the boxes have sets of parallel edges in 3D space depicted in sets of parallel lines in 2D space, showing no convergence. While this exercise require shallow foreshortening, this doesn't mean that the boxes should be drawn with no convergence. There should still be convergence, as these boxes are randomly rotated and not aligned in any way that would result in infinite vanishing points, just fairly gradual convergence. Another small issue; the sets of edges drawn after the initial "Y" seem like they don't show any sign of corner negotiation, as there isn't any extra dot on the page in those areas. You might need to give a look at this: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/organicperspective/step4
Next Steps:
Overall, I think you've grasped the concepts of the whole lesson. However, I would like to see another page of the organic perspective exercise, keeping in mind that the sets of parallel edges in 3D space have to be represented by sets of fairly gradual converging lines in 2D space (and not having them parallel to each other).
Thank you for your critique. I do see your point and have done a further page of the Organic Perspective exercise. I do have a fondness for pencil sketching, which may explain one of the criticisms!
I'm a little new to this system, so I'm hoping this works for sending the link.
Thank you again
Sarah
Really good now, this time you made sure that the sets of parallel edges converge in 2D space, fixing the main mistake that you had on the organic perspective. A few boxes still have this issue, but overall you've understood the assignment.
Next Steps:
250 box challenge.
Add these exercises to the pool of warmups, giving particular attention to ellipses.
Thank you. Yes, ellipses were more difficult for me.
Much appreciated.
Great job overall. Lines look executed with confidence. Elypses are drawn through a few times. You seem to understand the ideas of the boxes exercises and you did great on your revision. Also Rotated boxes look amazing.
One thing you can try is the funnel exercise but increase the elypses radius the further they go, you can do this in your warmups sometime.
Thank you, I struggled with the ellipses more, hence didn't try to overstretch. Appreciate the suggestion.
Some of you will have noticed that Drawabox doesn't teach shading at all. Rather, we focus on the understanding of the spatial relationships between the form we're drawing, which feeds into how one might go about applying shading. When it comes time to learn about shading though, you're going to want to learn it from Steven Zapata, hands down.
Take a look at his portfolio, and you'll immediately see why.
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