Hello!

I'm going to work off Stresszits critiqe. They made some helpful points. The main things is, it does look like most of this work was rushed, especially based off some of your replies. If you rush through things, the concept of the course will not be learned correctly.

• Rough perspective - make sure that the horizontal lines of your boxes are parallel to your horizen line. In turn, the vertical lines should be perpendicular. Otherwise it looks like you've understood the concept of the exercise!

• Ghost lines / superimposed / ghosted planes - It also looks like you've understood the concept. Make sure to draw from your shoulder. Your lines seem to arch quite a bit. If you are deawing from your shoulder and are still arching, think about drawing the line alightly arched in the opposite direction and it should become straight.

• Ellipses in planes - This looks very rushed. The idea is for the ellipses to touch all 4 walls of the face of the shape. Ellipses should be drawin theoigh 2-3 times, preferrably twice. I'm not sure if you were ghosting the ellipses before you drew it. I recomend to include 5 minutes of these in your seasion warm ups. Ellipses should be drawn with the idea of when folding them along the minor axis, the two halves should fit perfectly ontop of each other. Remember, rushing is just cheating yourself out of learning the structure of this course. Everything taught builds on each other, and other exercises could be difficult without learning the basics.

• Funnels and rotated boxes - I saw you added a page of the funnels as well. When doing these, the minor axis should be cutting the ellipses in half. It looks like you were trying to fit them within the funnel, more than lining them up correctly on the minor axis. Again, focus on trying to having the halves the same when flodes in half, some of them are pointy on top. Most of the boxes are not rotated in this exercise. This one was tough! Think about the vanishing points being slightly different (farther) as you are moving to a new box that is right or left to the next box. I do recommend to add a portion of this to your warm ups as well. I would try adding hatching to somw of your boxes in warm ups as well, to get used to the motion.

Overall I would recomend to slow down, and work on the 50/50% rule and draw for fun as well. It'll help show progress in the future of how far you've come. I have seen the exercises that ithers have told you to complete, which you did, so I'm going to mark this complete for you! I hope you'll start to take more time for structre and know this is a process to take your time and not rush through! Just because you are at the atarting stages of this course, doesn't mean you can't already make great things!

I think it's good, but for the rough perspective, the VP should be more centerred.

I made the same mistake and putted it too much on the side so i had a harder time doing the exercice but when i did it again with the VP in the middle, it was way easier. It's the only mistake i saw sorry if I didn't saw them all. have a good day.

Hi there Stromboli,

Congratulations on working through Lesson One! This is my first critique on Drawabox, and I hope it can be helpful to you. Please also listen to people with more experience than me.

I think the main theme of this critique can be seen in your comment above of wanting to move on to "do interesting things." A lot of your exercises feel rushed.

-Superimposed Lines

There is fraying on both ends of your lines. Fraying on the end of the line is to be expected, but you do have the ability to take the time to make the starting point clean. This sets you up to be more successful in staying close to your "guide line."

• Ghosted Lines

Your lines appear to be a mix of wobbly and confident. My suggestion is to follow that confidence - accuracy will come with practice, which you will get a lot of with Drawabox in exercises and warmups. It may also be helpful to ghost your lines a few more times before putting down the line, really thinking about working from your shoulder.

• Ellipses (in all exercises)

Here is where I think you could be rushing the most. A lot of your ellipses miss the guidelines given in each exercise. There are quite a few instances where you have gone around an ellipse more than once. I struggle with ellipses, and I have found that taking extra time to ghost them helps with precision and the need to try to correct them with another pass.

My suggestion to you would be to review the Ellipses section and to redo both the Table of Ellipses and Funnels exercises.

• Rough Perspective and Organic Perspective

You have a good start on these! One thing I see a few times is that your lines diverge away from the vanishing point when they should be converging towards it. I get this mixed up myself, and I try to take a moment to see how my next line will compare to what I've already put down.

• Rotated Boxes

Your work seems very clean here, which is excellent. Your boxes, especially those surrounding the center box, could be pushed into a stronger rotation. The front planes on the bottom boxes you've drawn along the edges are a bit flat. It can be helpful to remember that you are trying to create a more circular than square shape with these boxes, and to "tuck in" those outermost corners. I would recommend drawing one quadrant of this exercise as a warmup.

Drawabox is a program designed to challenge you. If you are feeling frustrated, I highly recommend strictly following Uncomfortable's 50/50 rule. For all the time you spend on Drawabox exercises, you spend an equal amount of time drawing all the interesting things you want!

Keep drawing!