Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on completing Lesson 1. Let’s see how you did, shall we?
Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Your ghosted lines/planes look quite confident, also, and I’m pleased to see that you’ve not neglected to plot start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes.
Onto the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise looks good. You’ll occasionally struggle with some of the smaller ellipses, but that’s par for the course (the smaller a mark, the harder it is to execute from the shoulder). The rest of them are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through; nicely done. The ellipses in planes look mostly good. They’ll occasionally deform in an effort to fill as much of the plane as possible, but I can tell that you’re aiming for them to be smooth and rounded. I can’t, however, say the same thing with regards to their rotations. Be sure to aim for 2 full ones, not 1 and change. The funnels look good. You’d benefit from another second or two spent ghosting each ellipse, looking at their occasional misalignment, but even as-is, they’re alright.
As for the box section, the plotted perspective exercise looks clean. The rough perspective exercise shows some nice improvement throughout the set. By the end, your linework is solid, and your convergences on-point. I’m very pleased to see so many unused points on the page even then, however – evidence of you taking your time, instead of getting complacent. The rotated boxes exercise seems to be missing 2 of its reminder boxes, but that’s alright. It’s decently big (though it could stand to be bigger still!), its boxes are snug, and they do a decent job of rotating. There’s the occasional issue with their construction, sure, but we don’t get into that until the box challenge, so for now, it’s perfectly fine to construct boxes based off of neighboring edges only. The organic perspective exercise looks great! Your compositions are interesting, and you’ve packed a lot of boxes into each one. Those same boxes flow well, as a result of their size and foreshortening, and are fairly well constructed, too! Keep up the good work.
Next Steps:
I’ll be marking this lesson as complete, and moving you on to the box challenge. Good luck!
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