Citriux

Hey there Ghost, congratulations on finishing the challenge! I'll be taking a look at all of your hard work.

I'll first start with what you've improved on and your strong points I've seen in this challenge. One thing I've seen is your visible improvement in convergence. It shows that your spacial reasoning skills have improved, which is the main point of the challenge. Another improvement I've seen is your line; comparing the start to the end, your lines have gotten considerably smoother and less wobbles were seen as far as I can tell.

What you have done well is experimenting with drawing your boxes from different orientations and angles. You also drew boxes of various sizes and shapes as well. It's good to see you change up your initial Y-shape orientations and play around with dynamic and shallow foreshortening. It's also good to see your dedication to include hatchings to the boxes. While optional, these are a great exercise as it practices both ghosting and your line mechanical skills.

Now, I'll point out somethings for improvement. While I did say that your convergence has improved greatly, I see a recurring problem of your boxes having convergence in pairs. It also seems like you are have troubles with the inner corners at times. These can be helped by understanding the lines' relations as a whole, rather than comparing them in pairs. This image may help; don't feel discouraged if you do not understand it yet, just keep it in mind until it clicks! Also, to paraphrase from official critique: the inner lines will be similar, assuming you don’t build a long box. These lines will vary depending on the distance of the vanishing point relative to the box; further away, the lines become more parallel. They however do not diverge or are completely parallel in three point perspective.

Finally, things I believe you could have done better. The most notable are regarding your hatchings later on in the challenge. Hatchings should be nice and connected to each edge of the square you're doing them on; for most of the boxes it seems like you rushed them. Remember, when doing the hatchings you should treat them like the lines for drawing the boxes, so you should ghost them and do them in one smooth motion.

Other than that, again congratulations on completing this challenge! It is no easy task, and finishing it shows your dedication to the craft and passion to learn. You have worked hard on this, and it shows with the improvements and strengths I saw. As such, I believe I can mark this as complete and for you to move on. Incorporate this into your warm ups to keep yourself sharp, and to further improve from what I brought up. Good luck in your future endeavors!

These look better than your first attempt, good work! The ellipses are more even. I think you're ready for the challenge now.

Hey there! Congrats on completing Lesson 1! I'll take a look at what you produced.

LINES:

Your superimposed lines look confident and smooth, both straight lines and arced lines. There are some minor fraying on both sides of your arced lines however. Try to keep the starting point of your lines consistent throughout the stroke. Your ghosted lines and planes also look good, you have clearly defined starting and stopping points with your smooth lines.

ELLIPSES:

Your table of ellipses look very clean and confident, but it seems that some of your ellipses aren't drawn through multiple times. You should draw through the ellipses multiple times to practice having even ellipses, which you do achieve with some of them but not all of them. Some of your ellipses in your ellipses in plane are nice and smooth, but their shape could be more even if you drew through them multiple times. Your ellipses for the funnels are similar too, the lines are confident and smooth but some are uneven. Also, be sure to make the two sides of the funnels symmetrical.

BOXES:

Your plotted perspective looks good, it seems you have a good grasp of perspective and how it works from it. For your rough perspective, make sure that your horizontal lines are all parallel. Some aren't when you are connecting the back two corners together. Your rotated boxes is a strong attempt, still lots to improve on but your corners are nice and close, and some of your boxes are properly rotating. Your organic perspective is also very nice, the flow of boxes are nice and believable.

I'm not sure what else to say, but again congrats on completing Lesson 1! Overall this is a very strong attempt and a lot of the problems I see is easily remedied by doing the 250 Box Challenge, but I would like to see another attempt at the ellipses with you drawing through the ellipses 2-3 times first.