Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

7:54 PM, Monday June 21st 2021

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I started the drawabox at the end of May. Here are the drawings of the first lesson. (I hope the link works ...) Thanks for the feedback!

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12:46 AM, Tuesday June 22nd 2021
edited at 1:13 AM, Jun 22nd 2021

Hi! I will be looking at your submission today.

Your superimposed lines are off to a great start, you are keeping a clear starting point with fraying at the far end. This is expected early on and will improve with practice and time. There does seem to be some wobbling in your longer lines so I suggest you draw them faster to force yourself to give up accuracy. Your ghosted lines are also coming along nicely as well as your ghosted planes I can tell you are getting comfortable drawing from your shoulder and applying the ghosting method by how confident and smooth your line making is here.

Moving on to your table of ellipses, these are also done well. You drew through them only two times (the recommended amount) and with confidence. Even the smaller ellipses are smooth meaning you are still using your shoulder rather than your wrist which is good. Your ellipses in planes are just as good, you strived to keep them tangent to the plane’s edges and prioritized accuracy. For the funnels exercise, most of your ellipses are kept snugly against one another and within the bounds of each funnel. There does seem to be an issue with the ellipses not being aligned with the minor axis and you could have tried to make the ellipses degree wider at the end, but aside from that, you did well here.

Nothing to say about your plotted perspective. Your rough perspective is done well, I am glad to see you are still applying the ghosting method and keeping your lines smooth. Although, there is some subtle wobbling on some lines here, so make sure you are drawing from your shoulder and do not worry about accuracy too much in the beginning. As you can see, your extended lines were off the vanishing point in the horizon, which is expected; your convergence will improve over time. Your rotated boxes came out pretty well here. You did seem to struggle with drawing through you boxes, especially the ones further away from the center, the neighboring edges are too far apart from the neighboring box and the lines to the farther end of those boxes seem to converge to a different vanishing point. Finally, your organic perspective is coming along nicely. Your box construction is solid with the initial Y having angles greater than 90 degrees aside from a few which came out a little distorted. And there is a clear and consistent depth to the scene.

This was a solid submission. It is clear you took your time to read and follow the instructions and are growing confident with your line making. Do remember to do these exercises as warm-ups for the 250-box challenge and future lessons. I will mark this work as complete and hope to see you again in the future.

Next Steps:

Tackle the 250-box challenge.

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edited at 1:13 AM, Jun 22nd 2021
8:11 AM, Tuesday June 22nd 2021

Hi! Thanks for the quick reply! I also noticed these mistakes. It’s great that others have confirmed this. I try to re-read the instructions from previous lessons regularly and apply them later. I'm going on to the 250 boxes.

Thanks again!

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