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8:11 AM, Wednesday April 16th 2025

Hello, it's me Izebeq. I've checked on your submission.

  1. Superimposed Line
  • I can see you draw the lines confidently. Nice.

  • The lines only fray at one side, which mean you planned the lines carefully. Good job.

  1. Ghosted Line
  • The lines are straight. Good.

  • Few of them arch a little, but still ok.

  1. Ghosted Plane
  • Most of the lines are straight and confident.
  1. Table of Ellipses
  • You draw the ellipses 2-3 times as instructed. Good.

  • The ellipses fit snuggly inside the border and you fill the empty space as well.

  • Most of the ellipses drawn smoothly and confidently. Good job.

  1. Ellipses in Plane
  • You draw the ellipses 2-3 times as instructed. Good.

  • The ellipses fit snuggly inside the border and you fill the empty space as well.

  • Most of the ellipses drawn smoothly and confidently. Good job.

  1. Funnels
  • You draw the ellipses 2-3 times as instructed. Good.

  • The ellipses touching the side of the funnel nicely.

  • The ellipses also align well with the minor axis.

  1. Plotted Perspective
  • You use ruler as instructed. Good.

  • The horizontal lines are perpendicular to the horizon. Good.

  • The edges plotted toward the VPs correctly.

  • Also good job with the hatching. Draw the hatching using your shoulder and ghosted method help you improve faster.

  1. Rough Perspective
  • You work with 1 point perspective as instructed.

  • The front and back faces are rectangular as intructed.

  • Most of the extention lines heading toward the VPs, good job.

  • Some of the boxes are crooked. You can try to ghost few time while estimating.

  1. Rotated Box
  • You followed the given instruction. Good.

  • The gaps between the boxes are tight and consistent. Good.

  • It seems like your unsure about how the VPs work as some of the boxes are not rotating. You'll explore more about it in the 250 boxes challenge. I'll drop this for future reference https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/rotatedboxes/notrotating

  • you draw through the boxes as instructed. Good job.

  • You also draw all the boxes.

  1. Organic Perspective
  • You use ghosting method as instructed.

  • some of the boxes are wonky, but I believe you will tackle this as you do the next challenge.

Overall I think you've done well and will tackle your weakness as you go through the boxes challenge. I'll mark you homework as complete. If you find any of this unclear, you can ping me (@izebeq) in lesson 1 channel.

Good luck with the 250 boxes challenge.

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8:16 AM, Wednesday April 16th 2025

Hi there! Saw your submission on Discord, and thought I'd drop you a critique :) First off, a huge congrats on completing the whole lesson 1, that's quite an achievement in itself! Alright, let's get to it :D

Lines

Superimposed Lines - These look good, you prioritized a confident mark over accuracy which led to some fraying on the far end, but that is what we want to see (fraying over accurately wobbling lines). I like how you tried out a variety of lengths, and didn't shy away from doing the page long lines as well! The accuracy comes with practice as we continue to do these in future warmups. One thing to note, is that in the first page, the beginning of the strokes have a bit of fraying (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/superimposedlines/fraying), but we already see you improve in that on the second page. It's optional, but you might want to also throw in some curves in there in the future as well. This is helpful for adding line weight in future lessons. Nice work!

Ghosted Lines - Your ghosted lines are nice and confident. This is the basis of drawing convincing shapes in the future. Some of the lines curve a bit, and they do overshoot or miss the other line quite a bit, but you've got a good start here. Again, confidence is the key here, the rest comes with mileage.

Ghosted Planes - Your ghosted planes look well planned out and your linework looks smooth and consistent. You took your time with each line and thought through them, in stead of rushing. Again, we have some overshooting here and one plane that has a broken double line. I'm not worried about this at all, you've shown that you understand the core concepts and are applying them.

Ellipses

Tables of Ellipses - Ellipses are tricky and take time to get the hang of. Again you correctly prioritized the confident linework over accuracy. You drew through them twice, and they fit fairly snugly against each other. Some of them are a bit uneven. A few things that might help with this is to try ghosting a bit more, and give your brain time to process it before touching pen to paper. Maybe even try going a bit slower as long as it doesn't compromise your line quality.

Ellipses in Planes - Nice job trying out the range of ellipses. Two things here, try not to go overboard with drawing through, and make sure that all the ellipses touch all four sides of the planes. You have several that only touch two sides, instead of all four.

Funnels - Your funnels align pretty well along the minor axis line and they touch the sides of the funnels. A tip for future warmups of the exercise, is that usually the ellipses on the far ends get a lot rounder than the ones in the center which are thinner.

Boxes

Plotted Perspective - You used a ruler for this and kept your verticals straight and perpendicular to the horizon line. You demonstrated a good understanding of how vanishing points are used :)

Rough Perspective - These look good, and you extended the lines correctly. The biggest thing that will help you here in future warmups, is to focus on ensuring that your front and back boxes are rectangular. Since we're doing one point perspective, we know that all the horizontal and vertical lines will be perpendicular to each other, so even though we give our best guess during ghosting, use this knowledge to help you double check before you commit to the lines. A general note is that it looks like you have an easier time getting your vertical lines parallel, while the horizontal ones are the tricker ones for you. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/roughperspective/guessing

Rotated Boxes - Nice job getting through this confusing exercise! You followed all the core steps, your boxes are rotating nicely, and you drew all the boxes in the set. I'm not exactly sure whats going on in the bottom left quarter, and it looks a bit like there might be some whiteout on the two right corner boxes, but overall it looks like you're starting to grasp quite well the concept of how to rotate boxes and how they relate to each other in space.

Organic Boxes - You do a nice job with getting your boxes to gradually get smaller as they move back in space. This is a nice start with depth perception. You also have a bit of rotation going on. There are several boxes where your lines diverge instead of converging, so this is something you will want to pay extra attention to when you tackle the box challenge!

Nicely done! I'm going to mark this lesson complete and have you move on to the 250 Box Challenge! You can go ahead and get started right away, but you will need two agrees on this lesson before you get the badge.

Next Steps:

Congrats, you now get to start warmups (https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/3/warmups ) before each session. Move on to the 250 Box Challenge, and don't forget your 50%!

Good luck with boxes :)

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