Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today. 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 is coming along okay. You are doing a good job drawing through most of your ellipse but I'm also noticing that you aren't always doing so and I'm also seeing the same issue with some of your ellipses in planes as well as some of the ellipses in funnels. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/11/drawingthrough So this is just a reminder that you should always drawing through your ellipses for every ellipse you draw for ALL of these lessons no matter what. Even if you feel you got it right the first time you should still draw through the ellipse. While you seem to be focused on getting consistent ellipse shapes you are getting quite a bit of line wobble trying to be accurate. This is carried over into your ellipses in planes and you are still deforming your ellipses at times. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/deformed This is likely happening because you 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 having the same issues and you are also tilting your ellipses off the minor axis at times. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned This is something you should always consider when drawing your ellipses. Another 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/1/13/step3 There is room for improvement when it comes to your ellipses both in terms of overall consistency of shape and accuracy and because you weren't always drawing through your ellipses I'd like you to do one more page of the ellipses in planes as a revision. Also please keep praciticing ellipses during your warmups.
The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. You are getting a mix of confident linework here along with some wobble creeping back into some of your lines. Once again this is probably happening because you are more concerned with accuracy now that you are constructing boxes and you are slowing down your stroke to compensate or there is another possibility that you are reverting to drawing with your wrist for some of these shorter lines which is something else you should be keeping an eye on. You should always be drawing from your shoulder with confidence even on short lines. You are 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 straight up and down. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.
Your rotated box exercise was a bit of a struggle. 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 but this started to fall apart on you, especially as you moved towards to the corners, because you didn't keep your gaps narrow and consistent. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/guessing 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/1/16/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 but that said you are then destroying your initially confident linework by adding lineweight. A quick note about adding line weight. If you are going to add line weight that's fine but make sure you are treating it the same as every other line you put down and ghost it multiple times and draw from your shoulder with confidence. Your box constructions are decent for the most part but there are some wonky ones here and there so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.
Overall this was a pretty good submission. I think you showed some definite improvement in terms of line confidence despite the fact that you were destorying it a bit with added line weight. I'd like to see one more page of the ellipses in planes as I think you could use the practice. After you submit that I'll take a look and you can most likely move on to the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
One Page Ellipses in Planes - Don't worry about accuracy as much and focus on getting smooth ellipse shapes and also remember to draw through ALL of your ellipses
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