Here's my homework from Lesson 1, I noticed some things myself while taking pictures (the long lines of the super imposed lines are pretty atrocious and curved and I messed up with some horizontal and vertical lines in rough perspective), but if anyone has other feedback, lemme know :)
Hi, Welcome to DAB:
Gotta say, I'm really impressed with your work. Really good stuff. Overall very solid, only a small number of things I can point out for you at this stage.
Lines are looking very confident, which I love to see. By and large they're looking straight, though there are some slightly curved lines, as well as a couple of wobbles near the target point. For the arcing lines, I think this is something that you'll be able to work on and improve naturally over time as long as you keep it in mind whilst you practise and consciously make an effort to correct it if you notice it happening. (THIS DOES NOT MEAN COURSE CORRECTING.). For the wobbles at the end of lines, I think this indicates a lapse in confidence as you get towards the goal; you're plenty fine with starting off strong and pushing a solid line forward, but as you get to the marked end of "where I need to stop", your confidence has a tendency to falter sometimes. Overall though, you don't do this very often, so I'm not concerned. Just re-assure yourself once you put pen to paper, the planning stage is now completely over, and you enter the execution stage. No more planning or preperation, just go forward and draw that line, letting your muscle memory taking control.
Ellipses are looking very good. No major points of critique here. They aren't perfect, but who would expect them to be at this stage. My only recommendation would be to up the difficulty of your funnels exercise in future when you come to do these in your warmups; this exercise can be very good for more advanced ellipse practise. Try making some funnels smaller than others, work with small ellipses, work with big ellipses. Try some of the other different variants in the lesson, notably the degree widening of the ellipses as they stray out further from the centre. You've coped well with the exercises involving ellipses, so I think it'd be beneficial to up the difficulty and try to push yourself a little further.
Note: on the plotted perspective exercise you didn't draw your plotted lines all the way back to VP on sheets 2 and 3. Whilst it isn't vitally important to your understanding of the concepts in this exercise (those being an introduction of 3d space and perspective to students), I'm not terribly fond of shortcuts and "skips" like this. Even if some part of the homework seems tedious or monotonous, It's bad practise to say "oh well this isn't important, I'll just skip over it". It's important to follow each exercise TO THE LETTER as you do them, because they're written in a very deliberate and very specific way. Make sure you don't take shortcuts like this in future.
On perspective, you've given this a good crack. As I'm sure you read in the lesson content, it's deliberately designed to be too difficult for you to deal with at this stage, so as it stands I'm perfectly happy with your performance here. The one pointer I could give is that the foreshortening of boxes in the organic perspective exercise is not consistent, which breaks the illusion of 3D space. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/7/foreshortening . It's a subtle point, and I don't necessarily expect you to fully understand it just yet, so don't worry if it doesn't sink in fully at the moment.
The 250 box challenge will give you some of the ground work you need to really start to get comfortable with 3D space and perspective, and you'll build on that further with lesson 2's content.
Overall, very impressive work.
Next Steps:
Make sure not to forget doing warm-up sessions. You can't just "complete" this and move on, you'll have to revisit select exercises regularly to keep your skills up.
Move on to the 250 box challenge.
See you there!
Hey, thank you for your feedback! It was really motivating to read through (which I can use since I'm about to draw 250 boxes, lol) and I appreciate the tips you gave. You are absolutely right on the occasional wobbles at the end of a line - for some reason every now and then I feel uncertain towards the end of a line and it immediately shows. I'm trying to work on it :')
You make a good point about the plotted perspective - I vaguelly remember seeing somewhere in an example that the lines didn't go all the way to the VP and figured I could keep them shorter to prevent stuff from getting cluthered and then probably started making them even shorter while drawing. Looking back at the example homework, I must have misremembered so thank you for pointing that out. Rest assured I did make sure my ruler was on the VP :p
The foreshortening is still a little fuzzy but every time I read that page it becomes a little bit clearer, so hopefully I'll get there one day :')
Thank you again for the great feedback and advice!
No worries.
The foreshortening is still a little fuzzy but every time I read that page it becomes a little bit clearer, so hopefully I'll get there one day :')
I had much the same experience. For me personally it only really clicked after lesson 2, during lesson three, though I suspect you'll cotton onto it faster than I.
Good luck with the boxes.
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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