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1:44 AM, Monday September 27th 2021
Hello, welcome to Drawabox. I will be critiquing your work here.
The two biggest problem that keeps happening is chicken scratching. On some lines instead of ghosting you do some chicken scratching instead. Remember that this is not how lines are drawn in Drawabox, each and every line in Drawabox should be made while thinking about where they start/end, ghosting them, and executing a continuous, confident stroke. Every line is a ghosted line exercise (with the exception of the first superimposed line exercise, since you do that before ghosted lines) even curved lines, and everything you are taught there should apply to every stroke you make in Drawabox (unless you are told otherwise, like using a ruler for some exercises). Remember to treat each and every line as if it is still on the ghosted lines exercise.
Another common thing I see is wobbliness and arching. All you have to do for this one is to follow the ghosted planes exercise for every stroke, just like last time. There are solutions on the lines page for wobbliness and arching.
. Your ellipses are messy and bumpy. Just like with lines, it looks like you lack confidence while drawing your ellipses. Ellipses also follow the ghosting method, plot your point, ghost over it, and execute a confident, continuous ellipse. For plotting the points think of the sides of the boxes/other ellipses as the points, and the ellipse you are going to make will touch each of these sides.
Your ellipses are drawn over more than once. Most of the time this is done to hide mistakes. Remember to only draw through them 2-3 times, not more, not less.
Every line mistake I have already mentioned occurs in your boxes exercises along with the solutions. Some things I have noticed is that you make more chicken scratched strokes instead of ghosted lines. Remember that ghosted lines applies in all lines in Drawabox unless otherwise stated.
There are a lot of perspective issues in rotated boxes. Remember that the lines of one side of the box should converge towards the same vanishing point on the line, as explained by the image here. Because the lines do not follow this the boxes do not look like as if they are being rotated. While the exercise page states that you will struggle with problem and you should not worry over the results, you still have to try to make sure that they are rotated, and it does not look like they are.
Another thing to point out is that some of your boxes share vanishing points. Since they are rotating they should not share vanishing points.
While there are perspective issues in organic perspective, it is not a priority that requires a redo since you will be working on it more at the 250 boxes challenge.
I think you still need to do more to understand the lesson. I will be requesting a revision here of the Table of Ellipses exercise and Rotated boxes.
Table of Ellipses: Around three rows is enough. This is assigned for you to make more smooth ellipses drawn over twice since most of your problems with ellipses occurs in this exercise.
Rotated boxes: One corner is enough. This is assigned for you to make lines which are ghosted and executed smoothly and confidently. Remember to reread the page and do line exercises as warmups. While doing this I want you to try to make the lines of the rotated boxes converge so that they rotate and to apply ghosted lies on the lines here.
That is all. I hope you were able to understand this. If not feel free to reply to me here or ask in the discord server.
Next Steps:
Redo three rows of Table of Ellipses and one corner of rotated boxes. Remember to reread the pages of each and apply the ghosting method on the lines and ellipses.
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