I included a few extra pages from exercises I either wanted more practice at before moving on, or used as a warm up for another exercise. Please disregard them if they are not eligible for review!
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Welcome and congratulations on finishing the first lesson of Drawabox! I'm Mada and I'll be taking a look at your submission.
Overall you did an excellent job here, but I do have a bit to mention so let's break them down one by one. I'll write the most important things in bold. While it's good for warmups, do remember that it's not recommended to do more than what is told to do. This will become more relevant with later lessons as the exercises get more complex and take more time to finish, so just submit whatever you got.
Lines
Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. Ghosted lines look correctly ghosted and confident too, and there are barely any arching. You missed some of the points, but accuracy is secondary to confidence. So you're doing a great job!). You've also demonstrated the same confidence in your ghosted planes with a great accuracy. Nothing much to say except keep up the good work!
Ellipses
Now with the tables of ellipses, you've demonstrated a great understanding of the concept in executing confident ellipses. The ellipses in planes are nice, you drew it confidently and snugly in their respective planes.
The funnels are also looking great; you've managed to fit them snugly and aligned to the minor axis and carried the same confidence as in previous exercises. I have no complaints here as your ellipses will tighten as you get more practice. Also this is optional, but you can attempt the optional step of varying the ellipse's degrees as you move outwards in your warm ups, as mentioned here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3
Boxes
The plotted perspective has no problems, you've shown a good understanding of how to make 2 point perspective. I can see you're trying to freehand the hatching in this. While you can use the ruler for this one exercise, you should use the ghosting method for the hatching rather than doing them haphazardly (which will become relevant in the 250 box challenge). It will make your stuff cleaner and more practice is always good! Try to cover all area of the box with consistent spacing.
You've applied the ghosting method and lines extension correctly for the rough perspective. You also drew the front/back faces rectangular, which is correct for 1 point perspective. Speaking of line extensions, do only extend them back to where they hit the horizon, not more. When you extend them too much, they become too convoluted and it becomes harder to compare where it hits the horizon to their actual target vanishing point.
As the notoriously most difficult exercise in this lesson, you've done a great job at doing the rotated boxes. You've rotated them pretty well (while making sure to move the converging lines) and used neighboring elements to deduce the next orientation of boxes, which is the whole purpose of this exercise. Again, try not to reattempt an exercise and just submit what you got the first time around next time (with the best of your ability, of course!). We'll decide whether you're missing the point of the lesson or not, which we can see when you're repeating the same mistake over and over again. So don't worry about it too much.
Finally, organic perspective looks great as well. They look like they belong in the same page and the lines converge as they move farther away from the viewer. There are a few hiccups here and there where there are divergences that results in skewed boxes, but overall they're minor and they look pretty solid. Hatching is also way better here compared to the plotted perspective, but do try to make them more confident (I can see a bit of wobbles!)
Anyway, I think you've grasped the concepts of the whole lesson and ready to put them into practice in warmups. Again, congratulations and keep up the good work!
Next Steps:
Move onto the 250 box challenge.
Do the lesson 1 exercises as your regular warmup and don't forget your 50% rule art.
Thank you so much for the prompt and detailed response!
I try to read the lessons and then watch all the videos, but sometimes I do miss things in practice (such as extending my red lines beyond the horizon line in rough perspective - oop!) thanks kindly for pointing it out.
For the hatching, yeah I wondered if that was going to be an issue haha. I definitely switched between free-handing and trying to ghost in some of them. In the future I will commit to using the ghosting method the whole way through.
I do consciously heed the advice not to grind, and of course I will remember to keep that in mind throughout the entirety of this course. In terms of the rotated boxes more specifically, I just ended up really enjoying the exercise! Despite that, I will try harder not to repeat things more than necessary in the future :)
Thanks again :).
Glad you found it helpful! Enjoy your journey :D
When it comes to technical drawing, there's no one better than Scott Robertson. I regularly use this book as a reference when eyeballing my perspective just won't cut it anymore. Need to figure out exactly how to rotate an object in 3D space? How to project a shape in perspective? Look no further.
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