First time Drawabox student, longtime reader of Peter Han's Dynamic Bible. I'm at my wits end because I've tried some other art courses, but I always fall off quickly ???? Hoping feedback will help keep me on track. Thank you for the work you do ????
Hey there Sprung, congratulations on your submission of Lesson 1! My name is Mickey and I'll be providing your critique this round. Let's get to it!
Your superimposed lines exercise was completed to satisfaction, great job including a varied array of line lengths and curves.
Your ghosted lines exercise has also been done well, each mark begins correctly on one of the dots and follows through confidently and accurately.
Good job on your ghosted planes and ellipses in planes, it's clear that each stroke has been executed with confidence and care, and the ellipses have been drawn through and fit within the bounds of the plane.
Your table of ellipses includes a variety of ellipse degrees and angles, the space was used well and your ellipses are drawn through. Well done.
Your funnels exercise is similarly well-executed. Great job going the extra mile and varying the degree of your ellipses to achieve that "expanding" effect.
Your plotted perspective exercise is also satisfactory. You missed the rear edge line on the top-left box in your final frame, but other than that each box traces back to its appropriate vanishing points, and the vertical edges are parallel and drawn to the appropriate corners.
Your rough perspective exercise is very clean, each front and rear plane is believably parallel in space and a good attempt was made to extend each back toward the vanishing point.
Revision needed: Rotated boxes is an (in)famously challenging piece of homework, and while it looks like you've properly grasped the concepts of edge alignment, rotation, and mirroring your boxes, it seems that you drew your initial squares too big and tried to compensate by severely angling your form boxes. While I appreciate the creative resolution, it unfortunately prevented you from completing the exercise properly, as you have a total of only five boxes per quadrant (not including the center box), instead of the total of eight. On an 8.5x11" paper, an approximately 1.75x1.75" square in the center (and being sure to place your outer squares at the far edges of the axes on either side) allows for adequate space both to see what you're doing and to fit everything in properly.
For your organic perspective exercise, I see a great variety in Y shapes and sizes; this method of freeform drawing will serve you well in the box challenge. I also see that you tried drawing some boxes much larger (closer to the viewer) and some much smaller (farther) -- very nice! Implying depth through size is a foundational perspective trick.
In all: great work! You're very close to completing Lesson 1, I'd just like to see you complete the exercise marked above before I can clear you for the box challenge. You have a revision pending, don't move on just yet!
Next Steps:
Submit one page of the Rotated Boxes exercise.
Thank you for reviewing my assignments, This one also got a little squished on one side because I failed to estimate properly. There are 8 boxes in each quadrant, though I understand if they are too difficult to see in a couple of them.
Thanks Sprung, I actually think you got the sizing perfect here. Don't worry, I can still see each of your boxes. I think you've got the idea down well, this is a great exercise to return to as a warmup -- provided you break it down over several days, since we really don't expect or want you to do the whole thing in a single warmup. They can be useful markers with which to gauge your improvement over time.
Thus, I'm very happy to award you your badge for Lesson 1! Keep all these exercises in your warmup rotation, I like to recommend this handy tool (https://mark-gerarts.github.io/draw-a-card/) to help you choose a warmup before starting future Drawabox assignments. Congratulations!
Next Steps:
Proceed to the 250 Box Challenge.
Thank you! I was about to ask about something for the warmup randomness ????
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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