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12:58 AM, Wednesday July 31st 2024

Welcome and congratulations on finishing the first lesson of Drawabox! I'm Mada and I'll be taking a look at your submission.

Overall you did an excellent job here, but I do have a bit to mention so let's break them down one by one. I'll write the most important things in bold.

Lines

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. Ghosted lines look correctly ghosted and confident too, and there are barely any arching. You've also demonstrated the same confidence in your ghosted planes. I can still see some wobbles, but this is easily repairable with more practice.

Ellipses

Now with the tables of ellipses, you've demonstrated a great understanding of the concept in executing confident ellipses. The ellipses in planes are nice, you drew it confidently and snugly in their respective planes. You've managed to fit the ellipses snugly and aligned to the minor axis in the funnels exercise. However, I can see that you're hesitating a bit more compared to your previous exercises. You're on the right path, but do remember to always be confident; ellipses in funnels are still just a bunch of ellipses. A confident execution leads to an evenly shaped ellipse, whereas hesitation leads to wobbling and uneven shapes just as it does for our lines. Be more confident, and make sure you're allowing yourself to draw from your shoulder (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ellipsesinplanes/deformed).

Your first attempts may be pretty wobbly, but you did show progress as you did more and more exercises. I have no complaints here as your ellipses will tighten as you get more practice.

Boxes

The plotted perspective has no problems, you've shown a good understanding of how to make 2 point perspective.

You've applied the ghosting method and lines extension correctly for the rough perspective. You also drew the front/back faces rectangular, which is correct for 1 point perspective.

As the notoriously most difficult exercise in this lesson, you've done a great job at doing the rotated boxes. You've rotated them pretty well (while making sure to move the converging lines) and used neighboring elements to deduce the next orientation of boxes, which is the whole purpose of this exercise.

Finally, organic perspective looks great as well. They look like they belong in the same page and the lines converge as they move farther away from the viewer. There are a few hiccups here and there where there are divergences that results in skewed boxes, but overall they're minor and they look pretty solid.

Anyway, I think you've grasped the concepts of the whole lesson and ready to put them into practice in warmups. Keep practicing on your confidence and prioritize it over accuracy. Again, congratulations and keep up the good work!

Next Steps:

Move onto the 250 box challenge.

Do the lesson 1 exercises as your regular warmup and don't forget your 50% rule art.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
1:48 AM, Wednesday July 31st 2024
edited at 1:51 AM, Jul 31st 2024

Thank you for feedback!

your feedback is very detailed and easy to understand :)

I'll try to draw the ellipses with more confidence

thanks

edited at 1:51 AM, Jul 31st 2024
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