This website uses cookies. You can read more about what we do with them, read our privacy policy.
2 users agree
6:37 PM, Tuesday February 13th 2024
Hello, I'm r0m1, and I will try to make a critic of your work. First, congratulation for completing the 1st lesson! Well done!
Superimposed Lines
You are executing your mark confidently, and maintain a confident, consistent trajectory for your strokes. You place your pen where the mark should start. The lines do not wobble, and there are no fraying at the begining of the lines. It seems correct to me.
Ghosted lines
It also seems correct to me: you are drawing the lines without hesitation. They do not wobble nor arc or bow.
Ghosted planes
The ghosted planes are are missing (I assume you re-used them for the ellipses in planes). I think should have presented them without the ellipses but anyway, they seem correct to me. The lines are still drawn confidently, so it's correct.
Tables of ellispes
You definitively draw through your ellipses 2 full times. Remember to make them fit snugly against the borders, some are not! They are evenly shaped. Correct again :)
Ellipses in planes
You draw through your ellipses two or three times, and they all touch the for edges of your planes. A couple of them are a bit deformed, but that's minor. Good job!
Funnels
You have drawn through your ellipses, so It seems correct. I think everything's ok: the ellipses are touching the edges of the funnel and they are aligned to the central minor axis line (one is a bit misaligned, but that's minor). Well done again!
Plotted perspective
You used a ruler, as stated in the instructions. Note that some of the verticals are not perfectly perpendicular to the horizon. All the edges plot back to the vanishing points.
Rough perspective
You are working with a single vanishing point, in the middle of the frame and both the front and back of the frames are rectangular (there are some imprecision in the stroke but I don't think you misunderstood the exercise). You applied the line extension correctly. Do not forget to use the ghosting method from the shoulder, as some lines are a bit wobbling.
Rotated boxes
You followed the instructions and the core steps of the exercices: this is referring to laying out the vertical and horizontal axes, as well as adding the squares at the end of each axis (this helps remind the 180 degree rotations). The gap between the boxes could be more consistent, but it seems ok to me.
You used different vanishing point for all boxes, so they really rotating.
You draw through your boxes and you did not forget any. This is pretty godd overall.
Organic perspective
Your strikes are done confidently and and you did not leaned into particularly dramatic foreshortening.
The boxes sets of parallel edges do not diverge as they move farther away from the viewer.
From my beginner point of view, you did a pretty good job :) There are a couple details that could be improved, but overall it's good! Well done!
Next Steps:
The next step is the 250 box challenge.
6:01 PM, Tuesday February 20th 2024
Big thanks for reviewing my work!
The recommendation below is an advertisement. Most of the links here are part of Amazon's affiliate program (unless otherwise stated), which helps support this website. It's also more than that - it's a hand-picked recommendation of something we've used ourselves, or know to be of impeccable quality. If you're interested, here is a full list.
Drawabox-Tested Fineliners (Pack of 10, $17.50 USD)
Let's be real here for a second: fineliners can get pricey. It varies from brand to brand, store to store, and country to country, but good fineliners like the Staedtler Pigment Liner (my personal brand favourite) can cost an arm and a leg. I remember finding them being sold individually at a Michael's for $4-$5 each. That's highway robbery right there.
Now, we're not a big company ourselves or anything, but we have been in a position to periodically import large batches of pens that we've sourced ourselves - using the wholesale route to keep costs down, and then to split the savings between getting pens to you for cheaper, and setting some aside to one day produce our own.
These pens are each hand-tested (on a little card we include in the package) to avoid sending out any duds (another problem with pens sold in stores). We also checked out a handful of different options before settling on this supplier - mainly looking for pens that were as close to the Staedtler Pigment Liner. If I'm being honest, I think these might even perform a little better, at least for our use case in this course.
We've also tested their longevity. We've found that if we're reasonably gentle with them, we can get through all of Lesson 1, and halfway through the box challenge. We actually had ScyllaStew test them while recording realtime videos of her working through the lesson work, which you can check out here, along with a variety of reviews of other brands.
Now, I will say this - we're only really in a position to make this an attractive offer for those in the continental United States (where we can offer shipping for free). We do ship internationally, but between the shipping prices and shipping times, it's probably not the best offer you can find - though this may depend. We also straight up can't ship to the UK, thanks to some fairly new restrictions they've put into place relating to their Brexit transition. I know that's a bummer - I'm Canadian myself - but hopefully one day we can expand things more meaningfully to the rest of the world.