Thanks!
My bad about the analysis, completely forgot you want us to avoid that. Will take care not to do that for future submissions.
Good job finishing it!
I'm seeing a couple of things here:
When you do the superimposed lines, or the ghosted lines (so basically really just when you do any line), even though you may be moving relatively fast when you ghost and when you draw the line itself, you should not be rushing the markmaking. Do your ghosting until you feel like you're confidently doing the right motion, then stop and properly set down your pen at the start point and only after you've definitely done that, execute the actual line.
You want your marks to be well planned well prepared and carefully executed like this.
The result should be your superimposed lines fraying only at one end, and your ghosted lines always having one end perfectly on the dot.
This of course also applies to any lines you draw in boxes, or for any other purpose.
Next, the ellipses. You're doing well enough with the ellipses, the confidence and accuracy is something you'll be building over a long period of time, but as per the instructions in drawabox, while you should always draw through your ellipses at least once, you also should never draw through more than three times. The lesson says 2-3, and I personally think you want to try to do just 2.
Finally, you are often attempting to fix lines by drawing them again. This is something you really want to avoid, as instead of fixing a mistake, it draws attention to it. It also results in messy drawings with inconsistent line weights. If you look at a box you drew without doing this from afar, then you'll probably find that they actually do look good even if you didn't hit the target point with your ghosted line! But if you tried to correct by drawing another line, it sticks out like a sore thumb.
So you should keep these things in mind when you do these exercises in your warmups from now on, and generally in your markmaking for the rest of your future exercises.
Next Steps:
Like I said, you should be paying extra attention that you're carefully resetting your pen at the start point before you draw your lines, and you should be only drawing through your ellipses 2-3 times, and you should take care not to try to fix mistakes by drawing another line (this one is kind of a habit that takes a while to really shake off), but you've completed the lesson and should move on to the 250 box challenge! Remember to do warmups at the start of every session!
Ok, so I see two big things:
The first is, superimposed lines, you should take care to actually reset the pen at the start of the line every time. Fraying at one end is fine, fraying at both means you were rushing getting to drawing the line itself. I think I'm seeing this more on the curved ones than the straight ones. Either way, the point is to plan out the line, prepare yourself by setting the pen down right, and then confidently execute it. Getting to any of these steps shouldn't be rushed.
For the ghosted lines, I'm also seeing some of these lines not quite start at the point. Even if you need to draw with some speed to get the line confident, you should not be rushing to get started with the line.
I'm also seeing you redraw a lot of lines, which you should be avoiding, as this really just calls attention to the mistake rather than actually fix it.
It's mentioned more in the description of the 250 box challenge I think, as one of the mistakes to avoid.
The rest of everything I think looks pretty fine! You should make sure you keep doing many of these exercises in your warmups, as really it's regularly working on these over a long period of time that's going to help you get those ellipses tighter and lines more confident!
Next Steps:
I would say pay extra attention to the habit of redrawing lines, and move on to start the 250 box challenge.
While I have a massive library of non-instructional art books I've collected over the years, there's only a handful that are actually important to me. This is one of them - so much so that I jammed my copy into my overstuffed backpack when flying back from my parents' house just so I could have it at my apartment. My back's been sore for a week.
The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.
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