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10:43 AM, Sunday January 15th 2023
Hi Madie! Right off the bat, your pictures are very vague, and it's real hard to see details - details that might be important for reviewing your work. Nonetheless, I will try my best. Try to come into possession of a higher quality camera for future lessons, especially Lesson 2's textures, where those details are essential!
For superimposed lines, all seems well. You are clearly taking your time to line up your fineliner as fraying seems minimal on one edge. When you do these as warm-ups, try to do page-length ones, across the entire width of the page.
Also watch out not to have your lines cross for superimposed lines - making the same stroke so many times might damage the paper, and going along another ridge than the one you've already created might throw off your line or tear the surface you're inking upon.
For ghosted lines, again, all seems well. These lines can and should cross, and you should also try making them longer or shorter - they're all very uniform. Remember that for warm-ups!
For ghosted planes, I can't quite tell if you're placing dots or not when you draw the horizontal/vertical lines due to the camera quality, but it seems like you're not. Make sure you keep ghosting those, too, so you can't hestitate on deciding where to start or end your lines (and your confidence suffers in the process). The dots are essential to ghosting, even if you have a line along which you would wish to end.
For tables of ellipses, you're doing OK. You're maintaining the same width to the best of your ability and drawing through twice. You'll work on accuracy as we do these as warm-ups.
For ellipses in planes, again, you're doing alright. Make sure you draw with your shoulder, and keep focusing on touching the edges here.
For funnels, your normal vector is mostly splitting them in half, but not always - and there's some... odd shapes on the corners of the page. I can't even see the funnel lines in most cases and they feel wonky. It shouldn't be hard to get your hands on a dinner plate to trace the edges - but you shouldn't even be focusing on fitting the ellipses neatly inside the funnel as much as you should be focuses on having the normal vector (the big long line down the center) splitting them in half properly.
For plotted perspective, all is well. Nothing to comment.
For rough perspective, you're doing OK, but use a different colour pen to check afterwards where the lines lead! Some of the wonkiness and hesitation is sneaking back into these boxes. Practice drawing with your shoulder, and remember that all the horizontal/vertical lines should be perfectly perpendicular to the edges of the view, as this is one-point perspective.
For rotated boxes, again, it's a bit wonky - but it's expected to be wonky at this stage. From this quality it's really hard to tell but I think you did understand the exercise.
For organic perspective, things are a bit of a mess. I can't see clearly what goes where, the camera quality does not help, and you are not meant to draw the lines we can't see in this exercise. I will ask for a revision on this - one more page of organic perspective, without drawing through (showing the back corner of the box)
Next Steps:
Re-do a page of the Organic Perspective exercise (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/organicperspective) without drawing through the boxes. Make sure the line does not cross itself. Please use a higher-quality camera to photograph it, if you have one on hand, or borrow one from a friend or family member.
Faber Castell PITT Artist Pens
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.