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2:34 AM, Sunday December 8th 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 a great 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 with a great accuracy. However, I noticed that you didn't put the start and end points when you bisect the planes horizontally and vertically. This results in floating lines, like this: https://imgur.com/a/Ud2O6tR. Do not forget to always plan your lines first when ghosting, even though you already kind of know where they should be.
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.
The funnels carried the same confidence as in previous exercises, with a bit of misalign to the minor axis (you can make this easier by rotating your page). Sometimes you forgot to fit them snugly and touch them to the side of the funnels, which results in these floating ellipses. Please follow the guidelines that you've made here; they're there for a reason. Make sure to draw them resting snugly against the lines and each other next time (not spaced arbitrarily), similar to how you've done it with the Tables of Ellipses exercise (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/loose).
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. However, I've noticed that some of the back faces of your boxes are not rectangular. By rectangular, we mean that they should be composed of horizontals that are parallel to the horizon line, and verticals that are perpendicular to it. While this could also be caused by the sometimes inaccurate lines, it's worth mentioning that there should not be any arbitrary guesswork or random angles. Don't forget that these rectangular front/back faces are the unique characteristics of 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 pretty good. Most of the lines converge as they move farther away from the viewer, but there are a few hiccups here and there where there are divergences that result in skewed boxes. Also, I see you're leaning into particularly dramatic foreshortening, which can make the sense of scale inconsistent in an exercise where there are a lots of forms together like this. This can make them look like they don't belong in the same page. Keep the foreshortening more shallow (less extreme convergences), but not actually parallel with no convergences at all.
This will get more relevant as you get to the box challenge, but any hatching from this point on should also be done with the ghosting method. It will make your stuff cleaner and more practice is always good! Try to cover the whole area of the box with consistent spacing.
Lastly you have a big tendency to do this, but do not correct your lines by going over it with more lines. This will make your mistake stands out even more with how bold it is, and generally is against the concept of executing planned confident lines throughout this course. Unless it's waaaaay off the trajectory, accept the mistake and trust your muscle memory that it will get better with time and practice.
Anyway, I think you've grasped the concepts of the whole lesson and ready to put them into practice in warmups. Do make sure to read the materials and instructions more carefully on the next lessons as you seem to tend to forget the little details, and it'd be unfortunate if you misunderstood a material and needlessly did an incorrect exercise. 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.
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