4:09 PM, Friday December 6th 2024
Hello I'm Simon and will be reviewing your Lesson :)
First of all congrats on completing the 250 Boxes challenge! It's a really hard part of the course and having completed it Lesson 2 will feel much easier so have fun with it!
First some general notes on your exercise:
You did a good job of extending your lines in the right direction everytime well done :) Great job on not having any diverging or parallel lines with your boxes that can be a really tough thing to achieve especially for the shallower foreshortening! No wobbly lines in sight good job. Good job on varying the orientation of all your boxes! That helps you improve much faster and you did well to do it! Most of your back corners aren't perfect but don't worry! that's completely okay and you'll have time to improve on it at your pace, If I can recommend something to improve on that it was to think of each line in the relation of the 4 others even the ones that aren't drawn yet that helped me, for some people drawing the boxes by starting with the 'hidden sides' helps them a great deal so feel free to try these techniques :) You started using hatching on your boxes that's a good habit to start having so keep practicing that on the next lessons when you can but that will already give you a little head start :) For your next boxes in your warmups I recommend you start using lineweigh to emphasize on the weight and volumes of the boxes and to bring them to the next level, it's a good skill to have that will come in useful in later lessons!
First 50
All your lines are really sharp and confident good job on that!
Next 50
You really quickly started doing boxes with not that shallow of a foreshortening. Some even having their vp on the page, that's fine sometimes but I recommend for your next warmups you focus on those really shallow foreshortening, close but not quite parallel, they're tough to do that's why working on them is important!
Last 150
Great job! I'll just add a little thing, on the page of the n°158-155 i can see a drawing on the other side of the page, if you can afford it use new pages and only draw on one side you'll be happy to have all of them on clean pages (and you'll be especially happy to have your cool drawings without random boxes on the other side) so if you can be careful with that for the next lessons, and keep doing your 50 percent that's great!
Overall great job! You pushed through this exercise and came out of the other side having improved a great deal, looking forward to seeing your next lessons with how clean your lines are ! don't hesitate to answer to the critique when you finish L2 (or the even later ones) when you finish them I'll be happy to review them!
Also I strongly encourage you to go review some submissions on the website :) You can easily review some lessons 1 and if you feel like it can review 250 boxes or wait until you completed lesson 2! Don't hesitate to do a review every so often. It really benefits you so you don't forget the point of the previous exercises and helps other people who are waiting on a review :)
Good luck with the rest!
Next Steps:
Move on to Lesson 2