Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

8:59 AM, Friday August 6th 2021

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drawabox homework lesson 01 part 1

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it's a complete submission but I had to split it into two posts, I hope tumblr works for this purpose. thank you very much! :)

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4:08 PM, Saturday August 7th 2021

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. 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 looking fine. I'm not seeing any real issues here. Your ellipses are off to a great start overall. Really nice job.

The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises turned out quite 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 a bit off but that will become more intuitive with practice. Nice work!

Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty well. One thing that would have helped you here would have been to draw this a bit bigger overall as drawing bigger really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. While your rotations here aren't perfect, which is perfectly fine given the difficulty of this exercise, this was a good effort overall. 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 good. You seem to be comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. Your box constructions are quite solid for the most part and you seem well prepared for the 250 box challenge.

Overall this was a pretty fantastic submission that showed a nice deal of growth. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along nicely. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work!

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
8:17 AM, Sunday August 8th 2021

thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed review, much appreciated :)

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