I'm seeing a big improvment in short period of time, your lines are more confident now
and though I think you should try to really push that a more, I think you will get the milage required by doing warm-ups before drawing (super imposed lines, and ghosted lines) try to be more quick and use your whole arm.
Next Steps:
other than that, I think you're all set to go on and start the 250 box challenge.
good luck.
In the "superimposed lines" exercise, I see you are focusing on getting long confident lines rather than accurate ones, which is good. but most of your lines don't start at the same point, they diverge at both sides of the line (especially the longer ones), you should look out for that when you do warm-ups of that exercise.
for the "ghosted lines" exercise, most of your lines are pretty good, you are going for quick lines that have confidence in them which is the point of the exercise, although I see some of them you have tried to reach the end point while not focusing on confidence which made the lines wobbly, you need to be mindful that your lines should follow the first level of the exercise: "Level 1: Line is smooth and consistent without any visible wobbling, but doesn't quite pass through A or B, due to not following the right trajectory. It's a straight shot, but misses the mark a bit."
You have done a good job in the "ghosted planes" exercise by drawing different shaped planes, though you seem to keep your planes in set rows rather than using the edges of the next plane next to it, which is stated in the exercise's describtion, also focus on keeping confident strokes rather than accurate ones.
I like that you followed the "ellipses in planes" exercise's rules to a T, you seem to draw a confident ellipse and going over it a second time, I also noticed that you use the space between ellipses to draw smaller ones, my only nitpick here is that you didn't draw circles in the first row of exercise.
For the "Ellipses in planes" exercise, you seem to understand what the objective of the exercise and are doing it to the best of your ability. well done.
Now the "Funnels" exercise, here you start derail from the advices mentioned before about markmaking, although it's a bit subtle, you start to be focusing more on accuracy of the ellipces rather than confidently drawing them, which is more important (your ellipses look wobbly and deformed). but you are following the "Minor axis" rule correctly.
The "Plotted Perspective" exercise is done in the intended way, I also like that you took the time to draw the diagonal lines on the closest plane with precision, but I would prefer that you put a bit more lineweight on the outter edges of the boxes.
The " Rough perspective" exercise, you should be ending your colored " measuring" lines once they reach the horizon line, but you seem to be extending them longer than that, Here I'm seeing that the more boxes you draw, the more you go into the exercises, the more your attention shifts towards accuracy, making your markmaking worse than before, that's because you're focused on drawing "boxes" rather than drawing "individual lines", which is what you're supposed to do.
The "Rotating perspective" exercise, Same advice about your lines apply here, you are rotating your boxes as intended, and you are drawing through them, the only thing missing here is the top plane of the boxes that are furthest apart diagonally, other than that you did a good job.
The "organic perspective" exercise, I don't wanna be repeaiting myself but I have to, one of the most important elments of drawabox is markmaking, Confidence is key, here you show the most wobbly lines, not because you can't draw them, but because you are too focused on drawing accurate boxes, though you are following the other rules correctly ( making the boxes smaller as they get farther away, and rotating them )
You also have provided one page of the exercise while you are required to draw two pages.
Next Steps:
I think that you should repeat one page of the "rough perspective", and two pages of the the "organic perspective"
focusing on ghosting your lines and drawing them confidently even if they don't reach the end point or pass through it.
Thank you for the thorough critique, I haven't really noticed the fraying in the long lines until you mentioned it, I guess it was because I was too close to the paper and didn't focus on the start of the lines
and for the Organic perspective: I was almost completely lost until the last two frames. I will try to focus on thinking more about the perspective of the boxes rather than just trying to draw a box
I will try to finish the 250 boxes this time :)
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