Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
10:44 AM, Friday November 22nd 2024
Hello!
Seeking people's critiques of my drawabox lesson #1 sketches, thanks :)
Hi there! I'm Liia and I will be critiquing your work today :) Let's get started!
Lines
Superimposed Lines - You have some strong markmaking here. The lines are drawn confidently and smoothly without hesitation. One thing to note here is that some of the lines have fraying on both ends, so try to give yourself one more second to set the pen correctly at the starting point before starting the stroke https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/superimposedlines/fraying
Ghosted Lines - Again, these look smooth and confident. There is a tad bit of overshooting, but the important thing is that once you start a stroke, you commit to it with a confident stroke. It would have been nice to have the page filled in a bit more, with a wider mix of both long and short lines. Overall, I'm not sure what size page you're drawing on, for some reason it looks on the small side (if a page is too small, it makes it difficult to draw from the arm).
Ghosted Planes - Both of these pages look excellent. Each stroke looks well planned out and confident. There is a bit of arcing on some of these lines, but I'm guessing that might be your page warping in the photo.
Ellipses
Tables of Ellipses - Your ellipses fit snugly into the place allocated for them. Something to note for future ellipses in this course, preferably you draw through your ellipses twice, mayyybe three times, but no more than that. Try to aim for twice!
Ghosted Ellipses- These got a little trickier! Keep prioritizing a smooth even shape of the ellipse over accuracy. Just like with lines, we want to prioritize the confident stroke over accuracy. Eventually your accuracy will improve with mileage (warmups)
Funnels - Yes! Your ellipses are drawn through twice, and align nicely to the central minor axis line. Some of your long lines in the middle were off which made the whole thing look off kilter, but it was just the center line.
Boxes
Plotted Perspective - Looks good here. In the last frame, it looks like you redrew two lines. It's good you were aware of it, but in this course, we try not to redraw lines, not just because it tends to draw unnecessary attention to the place, but also it negates the effectiveness of learning from the mistake.
Rough Perspective - These are pretty good. The main thing to keep in mind for this in future warmups, is that the box you draw in the back will always have perpendicular and horizontal lines. Some of the boxes in the back have lines that slant
https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/roughperspective/guessing Other than that, it would be nice to have your line extension stop at the horizon instead of going past. This keeps things cleaner and helps make it easier to keep track of things.
Rotated Boxes - You followed the steps and not only drew all the boxes in the set, but you also drew through all of them. The gaps are fairly tight and consistent and your boxes are rotating. Nice work! Also, don't redraw lines even though you made a mistake :)
Organic Perspective - This is some solid work overall. A few of your parallel edges are diverging a tiny bit as they move away from the viewer, but you'll get a lot of practice on this in the box challenge. Also, nice hatching!
Congrats on completing Level 1! This has been a really nice, solid, and thoughtful body of work. I'm going to mark this lesson as complete and send you off to the 250 box challenge! (Also, you can now critique other students level 1 work hehe) You'll need two agrees on this critique in order to get the badge for Level 1, but you can go ahead and get started on the 250 box challenge right away. If you have any questions, be sure to ask!
Next Steps:
Congratulations! Feel free to drop these exercises into your warmup pool https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/3/warmups and go tackle the 250 box challenge! Don't forget your 50% :)
Have fun with boxes!
Marshall Vandruff is a ubiquitous name in art instruction - not just through his work on the Draftsmen podcast and his other collaborations with Proko, but in his own right. He's been teaching anatomy, gesture, and perspective for decades, and a number of my own friends have taken his classes at the Laguna College of Art and Design (back around 2010), and had only good things to say about him. Not just as an instructor, but as a wonderful person as well.
Many of you will be familiar with his extremely cheap 1994 Perspective Drawing lectures, but here he kicks it up to a whole new level.
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