I've done it in ball point pen for the most of it, although I tried to get a felt tip pen so that I could avoid the grooves ball point pens made... but the felt tip bled ink any time I made a dot so I switched back to ball point.
Hello, as per your request on Discord I'm here to give you some feedback today.
Lines
Super Imposed Lines: These are excellent. You've done a great job of placing your pen down accurately on the starting dot so all the fraying is located at the far end, they flow smoothly and confidently, well done.
Ghosted Lines: These are very good too. The vast majority are very smooth and straight with just a couple of wobbly outliers where you may perhaps have slowed your movement down to make a course correction in an effort to hit the second dot. If that is the case remember for Drawabox exercises to always prioritise confidence over accuracy. A smooth straight line that slightly misses the second dot is more useful to us than a wobbly line that hits the second dot more accurately. That said, you have nothing to worry about, the wobble is rare and your accuracy is pretty good already.
Ghosted Planes: Same comments as the previous exercise.
Ellipses
Tables of Ellipses: Your ellipses look smooth and confidently drawn, and I'm pleased to see you're drawing through them all twice too, nice one. You've done a great job at keeping each ellipse touching the sides of the table and the ellipses on either side without having them overlap, good work. Just a reminder that for this exercise one of the aims is within the same section, you should aim to draw ellipses of the same degree. You can also play with the angle of the ellipse, and this should also be consistent within the same section.
Ellipses in Planes: Good work. Some of these look a little hesitant, and have deformed slightly where you may have slowed your pen in an effort to hit all the points accurately. Most of them are smooth and confident though.
Ellipses in Funnels: This is the weakest of your ellipse exercises. There are several ellipses where you didn't draw "through" them and go all the way around twice before lifting your pen. They also look more hesitant and wobbly than the previous exercises. It's okay, this exercise is very difficult. You clearly understand the aims of having each ellipse touch the sides of the funnel and the ellipses on either side and be cut into two symmetrical halves by the minor axis line. But do remember that you should draw through your ellipses throughout the entire course and confidence > accuracy.
Boxes
Plotted Perspective: I'm not sure why you chose to freehand your additional line weight in this exercise, as you're supposed to be using a ruler, aside from that it's good.
Rough Perspective: I'm not entirely sure what's going on with all the extra lines on your first page (Line weight? Corrections? Clean up pass with ruler?) So I'm going to focus on the second page which is in line with the exercise instructions. You've done a good job using dots to plan your lines and drawing them smoothly to construct your boxes. You've also done a good job of extending your depth lines to the horizon line to check your perspective estimations. Some of those estimations were a bit off, but that is okay, you'll get a lot of practice with this in the 250 box challenge.
Rotated Boxes: I actually did a double-take here, you drew, extra boxes? Okay. Normally I'm telling students off for missing boxes out, I think this is the first case of extra boxes I've seen. Congratulations on completing this notoriously difficult exercise. You've done a good job of keeping the gaps between the boxes small and consistent, and your rotation is pretty good too. Your lines do get a little bit more wobbly here than in the previous exercise, but that's understandable, it is quite a challenge. Just take your time, ghost every line as much as you need to, remember to draw them from your shoulder, and take breaks if you need to. A quick note on line weight, keep it subtle. You usually only need to go back over a line once to get the effect.
Organic Perspective: I think this is the exercise I already gave you feedback on over on Discord, no? "It looks like you've got the right idea. You're varying the size of your boxes to give a sense of depth within your scene, and drawing them from a variety of angles." There are a couple of places where you've redone a line to correct it. Don't do this. Just leave it as if it were correct and move on. Redoing lines only draws attention to the mistake, and can make your homework messy and confusing.
I know you had some questions about the organic perspective, but I think most of the answers you need will become apparent if you move on to the 250 box challenge.
With that, I'm going to mark this lesson complete. Feel free to move on to the 250 box challenge.
It is a good idea to practice the lesson 1 exercises as warm ups. Standard procedure is to pick 2 or 3 exercises to practice for a total of 10-15 minutes at the start of each session.
Good luck on your drawing adventure!
Next Steps:
Feel free to move on to the 250 box challenge.
thank you so much for such a comprehensive and positive critique! I'm feeling proud of myself, especially after reading the rotated boxes one. I actually did some more practice before doing that exercise, basically doing a rough perspective exercise of 2 vanishing points and 3 vanishing point, just to get the "rules" clear (2 sets of straight lines for 1 point perspective, 1 set for 2 point, and none for 3).
about the extra lines in rough perspective, those were an attempt to make one surface clear, like in the plotted perspective exercise, because I was feeling a little woozy and couldn't quickly figure out which surface was toward me (you know that thing that happens when you're looking at a box with the all the lines drawn from some angles it looks inside-out?). that's it.
Thank you again for this amazing critique. I'm feeling a lot more confident and I'm gonna start with the challenge tomorrow!
This is a remarkable little pen. Technically speaking, any brush pen of reasonable quality will do, but I'm especially fond of this one. It's incredibly difficult to draw with (especially at first) due to how much your stroke varies based on how much pressure you apply, and how you use it - but at the same time despite this frustration, it's also incredibly fun.
Moreover, due to the challenge of its use, it teaches you a lot about the nuances of one's stroke. These are the kinds of skills that one can carry over to standard felt tip pens, as well as to digital media. Really great for doodling and just enjoying yourself.
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