Hello! I will be handling this critique this time.
Superimposed Lines: I noticed some of your lines are fraying on both ends. However some of them don’t look to be wobbling–good job. It seems you’re confident, but keep on ghosting the lines.
Ghosted Lines: try your best to not keep your lines at a consistent size. Your lines are arching here a bit. Work on moving your shoulder and ghost your lines a hundred times might help. If they keep arcing, try to consciously arch to the opposite direction.
Ghosted Planes and Ellipses in Planes: lines are still arching; you may feel nervous or don't ghost them. Also, some of the lines of your planes don't connect to the dot, so work out on drawing with a goal in mind!
You did a great job drawing through ellipses 2 to 3 times.
Tables of Ellipses: aim for keeping the ellipses within the bounds, ghosting, drawing them through each other, and, above all, confidence. Have a concrete goal in mind, take a deep breath, and use your shoulder. Don't be afraid of changing the ellipses size too.
Funnels: the minor and major axis should cut the ellipses into symmetrical halves. I'd recommend you to use a ruler or a hard object to draw the curves. Remember this exercise requires you to use the different sizes of an ellipse. Again, don’t forget to ghost and use your shoulders.
Plotted Perspective: it looks like you've got the purpose of the exercise!
Rough Perspective: for this one, draw dots and ghost lines to know where it'll be connecting–although you haven’t had a big problem with perspective here, most of the lines are not connecting and trembling. Focus on drawing confidently and ghost. Weight lines must be parallel to the horizon line and height lines must be perpendicular to the horizontal line.
Rotated Boxes: some of the lines are trembling, not connecting, and are not clear. You did a good job, though! You grasped the purpose of this one.
Organic Perspective: the angle degrees between each line of the Y should be equal to or greater than 90°. Same advice as above—draw from your shoulder, ghosting because some of the lines, again, are not connecting. Also, some lines are not connected to the dot. If you make a mistake, try to not repeat the line; just keep going.
I like how your lines seem clean.
Congrats, you did a great job! Please, if possible, use an ink pen for the next lessons.
Next Steps:
Feel free to start the 250 Boxes Challenge.
Thank you so much for the feedback! I'll definitely be sure to work more consciously on connecting the lines and making them more confident as I go forward with drawing boxes
Michael Hampton is one of my favourite figure drawing teachers, specifically because of how he approaches things from a basis of structure, which as you have probably noted from Drawabox, is a big priority for me. Gesture however is the opposite of structure however - they both exist at opposite ends of a spectrum, where structure promotes solidity and structure (and can on its own result in stiffness and rigidity), gesture focuses on motion and fluidity, which can result in things that are ephemeral, not quite feeling solid and stable.
With structure and spatial reasoning in his very bones, he still provides an excellent exploration of gesture, but in a visual language in something that we here appreciate greatly, and that's not something you can find everywhere.
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