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5:18 PM, Sunday May 1st 2022

Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are having some issues with you not quite drawing through all of your ellipses and this is carried over into your ellipses in planes where you aren't drawing through your ellipses at all. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/drawingthrough You need to be drawing through every single ellipse you draw for all of lessons without exception. Even if you feel like you got it right on the first pass. So as a revision I'd like you to do one more page of the table of ellipses and make sure you draw through all of your ellipses this time. You are also deforming some of your ellipses at times. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/deformed This is likely happening because you are too worried about accuracy and are probably slowing down your stroke to compensate. Try and rely a bit more on the muscle memory of the motion you build up while ghosting and almost make your mark without thinking. This will be less accurate at first. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come through mileage and consistent practice more than anything. Your ellipses in funnels are looking much improved and you even drew through all of your ellipses on the first page but seemed to skip some on the second. One thing you could have done with these is start with a narrower degree ellipse in the center and then widen the degrees of the ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel. Please check the example here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/step3 This helps with practicing different degrees of ellipses. There is a lot of room for improvement when it comes to your ellipses both in terms of overall consistency of shape and accuracy so make sure you keep practicing these in your warmups as they can take a while to get used to.

The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. It's great that you are keeping up with the confident linework on these. You are also doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice. One thing that can help you a bit when doing a one point perspective exercise like this is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be perpendicular(straight up and down in this case) to the horizon line. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.

Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty well. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/notrotating This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. I am noticing that you are redrawing lines on occasion and this is a habit you should try and get out of. Try and stick with the initial line you put down even if it's a bit off. Adding more lines just makes things messier and harder to read. Before moving on to the 250 box challenge I'd like you to be able to construct boxes without redrawing lines or adding lineweight so as a revision I'd like you to do one more page of this exercise but this time no redrawing lines or adding line weight. Just put down a confident line and stick with. Your box constructions could definitely use some work so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.

Overall this was a pretty solid submission outside of not drawing through some of your ellipses and the dip in line quality with the last exercise with redrawing lines. Once we get those things sorted with the revisions you can most likely move on to the 250 box challenge.

Next Steps:

One page table of ellipses - Make sure you draw through all of your ellipses

One page organic box perspective - No redrawing lines or adding line weight

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
5:49 PM, Friday May 13th 2022
12:37 AM, Saturday May 14th 2022

Alright these look better. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Good luck.

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
9:13 AM, Saturday May 14th 2022

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