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5:44 AM, Tuesday February 6th 2024
Hello Toai3, I will be handling your Lesson 1 submission today. If you have any questions or feel unsatisfied with my response, please feel free to comment below. With that said, let's go ahead and dig into these exercises.
Lines
You start off the lesson well with your superimposed lines; the lines remain fairly consistent between each line. Next up are your ghosted lines, which have some slight wobble and overshoot the plotted points but are good overall.
Ghosted planes & Ellipses
Now onto the ghosted planes and ellipses. Clear planning of your lines is present. Some wobble is similar to the ghosted lines, but there are no major issues. The ellipses shown are clearly drawn over more than once and touch all edges of the plane more often than not. Some ellipses are loose on the second loop around, as long as you stick to warm-ups that'll tighten up in time.
Table of Ellipses & Funnels
Moving along to your table of ellipses, consistent lines are present, and all ellipses are drawn through at least twice. Your ellipses in the funnel sections have some slant and fall short of the top or bottom of the funnel occasionally. Good execution on your ellipses overall.
Plotted, Rough, & Organic Perspective
Starting from a plotted perspective, the back corners are slanted. Don't worry though; this is pretty common, and as you progress towards the 250 challenge, you'll learn how to make minor adjustments to estimate the back corners. Your boxes within the rough perspective remain in one-point perspective and appear to have clear planning for each line. Line extensions are correctly taken from each corner of the box using a ruler and reach the vanishing point fairly accurately. Pressing ahead, your rotated boxes have clean lines with little space between them but also appear to converge correctly. The outermost corner boxes are also missing in all quadrants. Some line weight could have been used on the front planes to differentiate the boxes as they rotate, but good job nonetheless. Lastly, your organic perspective boxes have clear planning and application of the ghosting method. Although a few of your boxes have diverging sets of lines, nothing major, but I would recommend a quick review of the Y method as you begin the 250 box challenge: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/22/ymethod
Next Steps:
Remember to take these exercises into your warm-ups (10-15 minutes), and you can move on towards the 250 Box Challenge. Good Luck!
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Staedtler Pigment Liners
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).