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Thank you for the critique!

Thank you for the critique!

Thank you for the critique!

Remember, when making your funnels, the division line should be right in the center and the ellipse made over the division line should be the thinnest ellipse in the funnel (have a lower degree) and all the other ellipses, as they increase in distance from the center, should gradually become wider until they become widest at the ends of the funnel. Changing the degrees of your ellipses is optional, but I believe you might have been trying to do that in a few of your funnels and there are a few cases where that rule isn't followed. Aside from that, remember not to draw an ellipse with more than 3 passes.

Your rotated boxes have improved quite a bit, though as you mentioned they don't accurately converge to their vanishing points, which makes them look quite flat.

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It seems like you've gotten much more confident with your ellipses, and while there is a bit of deformation to make them fit in the plane they're looking much smoother.

Your rough perspective is also looking much better. The lines are smoother and the boxes are mostly on the right track, though you still need to watch out for the width and height lines of your boxes. There are still a few cases where they aren't at the right angle to the horizon (width lines should be parallel to horizon and height lines should be perpendicular).

Your organic perspective also looks much better. One thing to remember is that your boxes will never converge toward the viewer (left face of the box will always converge to a vanishing point on the left, right face of the box will always converge to a vanishing point on the right, and if you can see the top plane of the box then it will converge to a vanishing point below the box).

I'm not too sure about why the upper right corner of your ellipses tends to wobble. That said, I haven't noticed them wobbling any more than the ones from other lesson 1 submission. As for your pen grip, I'm not sure if it affects precision but I do recommend having a looser grip, as a very tight grip can strain your hand.

Your ellipses are smooth, but their shape is still deformed to touch all four sides of the ellipse in some cases. Remember, the shape and smoothness of the ellipse is the most important part of drawing an ellipse.

Your boxes and ellipses are looking much cleaner, and I notice you've stopped trying to correct them. There's not much else to say, really. As long as you keep practicing them in your warm ups they will get smoother and more accurate.

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These are looking much better! I don't have very much to say honestly. They aren't perfectly accurate but as you practice you will get better.

And you're welcome! It can sometimes take quite a while to get critique since the submission queues fill up faster than people can critique but we do try to get through every one, and some people give really good feedback here.

Congrats on finishing lesson 1!

On your superimposed lines, there are a few wobbles, but most of them are pretty smooth. Remember, confidence always matters more than accuracy - if your line is smooth, it is a good line even if it doesn't perfectly overlap the others. There are also a few lines with a bit of fraying on both ends. You should be making confident lines, but not unplanned ones. This means you should be taking the time to position your pen so it touches the paper right where the line begins before making your mark. This is also explained here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/8/fraying

On your ghosted lines and planes you should also be placing your pen where the line will begin (at one of the points you made) before making the mark, and confidence should again be the priority. Though these exercises do improve in these aspects.

On your tables of ellipses and funnels, you're drawing your ellipses with way too many passes. The maximum number of passes you're allowed to use to draw one ellipse is three passes. Aside from that, most of these ellipses are pretty smooth.

Your ellipses in planes are mostly smooth as well, though there are a few where the round shape of the ellipse is compromised to force the ellipse to fit better in the plane. There are also a few times when your extra passes through the ellipses are forced to touch one side of the plane, which breaks up the smoothness of the ellipse.

Your perspective exercises are generally well done. A few of your lines do wobble, which I suspect is due to being worried too much about accuracy. Also remember that your width lines should be parallel to the horizon and your height lines should be perpendicular to it.

You made a good attempt at rotated boxes, but a lot of your boxes don't rotate back into space as much as they should, because the vanishing point of your boxes as they rotate isn't crawling along the horizon line as much as they should. Your boxes on the should be converging to a vanishing point on the opposite side of the middle box as they are (for example, a box on the right of the middle box will converge to a vp on the left of the middle box). This also results in the top face of the box becoming less and less visible the more it rotates.

Your organic perspective exercise is generally well done, though there is a tendency for the boxes to converge in the wrong direction. Remember, the box should converge away from the viewer, meaning on the opposite sides of the visible faces (which means, for example, you'll never have a box with a visible top plane that converges from bottom to top).

Also during your perspective exercise, do not colour in any faces of the box. You should be hatching them, and treating each hatching line as though it were a ghosted line.