Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

12:15 AM, Friday July 7th 2023

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I am returning to DaB after 2 or 3 years. Prior I had stopped in the middle of Lesson 2 texture studies with unofficial critiques of L1 and boxes.

I've decided to go the official critique route this time. I've redone Lesson 1 completely. I understand that people in my situation typically have to do at least 50 more boxes but 3 years is a long time and you may decide redoing the whole challenge is necessary. I kept up with the DaB warmups and occasional boxes in the intervening time so I am not coming back in to this completely rusty.

I did 5 new boxes so you can tell me if I need to do just 50 or the full 250 after Lesson 1 is critiqued.

https://imgur.com/a/OHv7Jib

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10:00 PM, Friday July 7th 2023

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 coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. A few of your ellipses in funnels are having some slight issues with tilting off the minor axis. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/notaligned This is something you should always start considering when drawing your ellipses. Your ellipses are looking really good overall though. Nice work.

The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises turned out very well. 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 a bit off but that will become more intuitive with practice.

Your rotated box exercise turned out great. 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 consistent. The rotations are very well done for the most part I'm not seeing any issues here. Nice job. Your organic perspective exercises are looking good. You seem to be comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. Your box constructions are quite solid for ths most part and I can see you already have a good sense for how box lines converge to vps.

Overall this was an excellent submission which makes sense as you've worked through this material before. I think you are understanding all of the lesson one concepts very well. In regards to the 250 box challenge looking at your boxes in the organic perspective exercsies I'd say you have a fairly good understanding of how convergences work and do not think you need to do 250 boxes again but since I do not handle those critiques I would still ask Imposter in the patreon-chat discord if it's okay for you to do only 50 since I'm not entirely sure how that is handled. Great job and good luck!

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
9:00 PM, Friday July 21st 2023

Thanks for the critique! I'll be sure to work on the funnels and rough perspective.

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