Check Out NMA    About our Partnership    Collapse this Ad

Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

11:32 PM, Saturday February 15th 2025

DrawaBox 1 Lesson submission :D - Album on Imgur

Imgur: https://imgur.com/a/oX2pIHw

Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered enterta...

It was fun to do! Will be pleased to hear critique on my work, have fun reviewing it

Report
1 users agree
6:44 PM, Tuesday September 9th 2025

Hello! I'm Joxmarf and I will be reviewing your Lesson 1 :)

Superimposed Lines

There's some frying. Remember to not only think about ghosting and doing your stroke confidently, but also where you place your pen. Also, your lines are curving. Try to focus only on the end point and draw confidently enough not to allow your brain to steer the stroke.

Ghosted Lines

You are doing a good job focusing on the confidence of your strokes. There's some overshooting, but you will be able to control it as time goes on and you get more mileage, confidence is the focus on DAB.

Ghosted Planes

Well done.

Table of Ellipses

I see you are drawing through your ellipses two full times, which is great. I think you may be applying too much force when doing the ellipse. Remember to do them light and fast and not to let empty space between the ellipses.

Ellipses in Planes

Good job. Though many of them are woobly. As I said before, light and fast :]

Funnels

It is quite difficult, but I would like to note that some of your ellipses are not aligned to the central minor axis line. Also, some ellipses are not touching touching the lines enclosing them or each other. Remember to respect the boundaries you established.

Plotted Perspective

Well done :OO

Rough Perspective

Good job, you are working with one vanishing point, as the exercise states. Remember to prioritize confidence over accuracy for your lines.

Rotated boxes

Woahh, well done. You are missing the boxes on the corners. I recommend doing them before moving on:)

Organic Perspective

Well done.

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete. In order for the student to receive their completion badge, this critique will need 2 agreements from other members of the community.
2:55 PM, Thursday September 11th 2025

Hello, Thank you very much for this critique!

About the curving in Superimposed Lines: I will try to counteract the curve that happens in the big lines i try to draw by arching them in the other direction (one of the advices from Lesson 1).

About the Table of Ellipses: I apply too much force here because i had lower quality fineliner which required more force, but i bought Sakura Pigma fineliners and im ready to use them in next lessons.

About the missing boxes on the Rotated Boxes exercise: I did it a long time ago but i think there actually are boxes in the corners, its just that when i did this exercise for the first time lines got pretty complicated and there wasn't much place for the boxes in the corners, so they were barely visible when i added them, oh and also a lot of the lines here lay too close, so some boxes are a bit indistinguishable. I hope i will catch up with this exercise in warm up sessions though!

Have a good day!

Below this point is mostly ads. Indie projects, and tool/course recommendations from us.
This section is reserved for low-cost advertising space for art related indie projects.
With how saturated the market is, it is tough for such projects to get eyes on their work.
By providing this section, we hope to help with that.
If you'd like to advertise here, you can do so through comicad.net
The recommendation below is an advertisement. Most of the links here are part of Amazon's affiliate program (unless otherwise stated), which helps support this website. It's also more than that - it's a hand-picked recommendation of something we've used ourselves, or know to be of impeccable quality. If you're interested, here is a full list.
Printer Paper

Printer Paper

Where the rest of my recommendations tend to be for specific products, this one is a little more general. It's about printer paper.

As discussed in Lesson 0, printer paper (A4 or 8.5"x11") is what we recommend. It's well suited to the kind of tools we're using, and the nature of the work we're doing (in terms of size). But a lot of students still feel driven to sketchbooks, either by a desire to feel more like an artist, or to be able to compile their work as they go through the course.

Neither is a good enough reason to use something that is going to more expensive, more complex in terms of finding the right kind for the tools we're using, more stress-inducing (in terms of not wanting to "ruin" a sketchbook - we make a lot of mistakes throughout the work in this course), and more likely to keep you from developing the habits we try to instill in our students (like rotating the page to find a comfortable angle of approach).

Whether you grab the ream of printer paper linked here, a different brand, or pick one up from a store near you - do yourself a favour and don't make things even more difficult for you. And if you want to compile your work, you can always keep it in a folder, and even have it bound into a book when you're done.

Remember that when you agree with something another user has written, you are putting your own reputation behind it.

Consider the following:

  • If it's homework feedback, does it address each section of the lesson/challenge, or only briefly touch upon one or two exercises?
  • Does it provide clearly defined next steps for the student to follow?
  • Have you read through it thoroughly, or are you simply agreeing so the student earns a superficial badge?
  • Replies you agree with will be visible in your sketchbook

Agreeing blindly just to be nice is a good way to get your permissions associated with this function revoked, so make sure that you genuinely feel that the response is beneficial to the student.

We use cookies in conjunction with Google Analytics to anonymously track how our website is used.

This data is not shared with any other parties or sold to anyone. They are also disabled until consent is provided by clicking the button below, and this consent can be revoked at any time by clicking the "Revoke Analytics Cookie Consent" link in our website footer.

You can read more about what we do with them, read our privacy policy.