Mine linework has a ways to improve, I can see (lots of habits to break after painting miniatures with my wrist for years), but it's starting to improve as I move into my 250 box challenge. I struggled the most with the rotated boxes because I couldn't see where I was drawing.
Hi Scott! First at all, well done finishing lesson 1. I'm gonna give you my feedback about which things could be improved:
Lines Exercises
About lines, these looks wobbly. If it's your first time using your shoulder, it is normal that you haven't grasped yet how it works. Simply practice until you feel comfortable (and avoid using your wrist or elbow for this).
Other thing I want to note it's confidence on the execution (related with what I said earlier). You must be confident when you execute your line. When it's executed, there are no coming backs (as it can be seen, you repeated some executions on your boxes, for example. It happened to me too, and we need to avoid that!), the line is there, and the result stays as it (unless you want to have a thicker line, which is not the case).
Ellipses
On table of ellipses, you have wobbly lines. The case is the same as earlier, you need to use your shoulder. Try to have the same confidence as the one you had on the exercises of ellipses on planes!
Important: the funnels exercise is missing! Consider making it, or if you already made it, upload it!
Boxes
In rough perspective, seems like some lines were not directed appropriately. Be wary of that, and try to make an educated guesswork better than a random guess (https://imgur.com/a/EnX5CzZ)
Let's see rotated boxes. This one is a hard exercise, but something that you should be aware of is the rotation on boxes. It seems that the boxes aligned with the reference axis don't rotate correctly (as you can see in this image: https://imgur.com/a/vHhHaiw). How can you fix this? Think of this: when we rotate our box, the lines will be more inclined (https://imgur.com/a/WQIvQT8). This is due to the movement of the vanishing points. Check again the lesson to see what I'm talking about.
About organic perspective, first avoid repeating the lines over and over (the thing that I mentioned you in the lines section, unless you are doing this to get a thicker line, where I would recommend you to ghost over the line to get something more accurate). Second, be wary of the boxes dimensions, because some are being changed when you rotate them (and they shouldn't change in that way!)
I wrote quite a chunk of text, but I hope this helps you to understand what to improve and check. Most of those things will be corrected over time, with practice, and the perspective aspect will be understood better with the 250 box challenge.
To finish, I would recommend you to keep practicing the execution on your ellipses and lines. Maybe doing a page of table of ellipses or a page of planes will help you on that. Keep it up!
Next Steps:
Thank you so much for the thorough critique! As for the funnels exercise, I did do it, but it somehow got missed in the uploads, so I've done so and linked it below.
As for lines, yes, I am drawing from the shoulder and am consciously building an awareness of it. In fact, prior to posting this, I'd filled about 10 pages with my attempts to draw point-to-point ghosted lines, and about 6 additional pages of elipses, but it's really hard for me. So please, understand that I'm trying my absolute best and have spent hours trying to get this right. I'm well aware of what I'm doing wrong with my lines and overcoming my personal feelings of inadequacy about being unable to do it right is an ongoing process.
Starting this process has been hard for me, and one of the hardest things is trying to get over me feelings that I'm never going to be good enough, but I'm forcing myself to keep going.
Hi again Scott, I totally understand the difficulty of the task, and what I noted you was just to be aware of those mistakes. Simply take it easy and at your path (rushing usually doesn't bring the best of us). As I said in my previous comment, practice will make improvements on everything noted.
Next Steps:
The lesson is complete, so go and check the 250 Box Challenge!
P.S: Get the habit of adding all the exercises you've already done to the pool of warm ups. As a personal recommendation, practice these warm ups every time you're gonna draw (2-3 exercises, and with a time of 10-15 minutes), even if it's not for Drawabox lessons. At this way, you'll improve your technique on each drawing session!
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