Greetings, ExpiredSnow!

I'm here to take a look at your submission and hopefully give you useful feedback and tips on how to improve even more. I'll split my critique into three majors categories - them being Lines, Ellipses and Boxes -, and at the end I'll give you a broader comment about the entire lesson.

Critique

Lines

Starting with Superimposed Lines. Your lines are frying on one end, which for now, is OK. Still, they're frying quite a lot. One tip that helped me fix this problem is to look at the second dot and not at the tip of the fineliner. The lines themselves are arcing a bit or are wobbly (especially those curved ones).

Moving on to Ghosted Lines. Your lines are arcing a bit here too. Remember that confident lines is more important than accurate ones. Do you remember the levels that were explained at the instructions? Level 1 is one confident line that doesn't pass through dot A or dot B. But it still is a confident/straight line! Always aim for confident lines. You should also reread the arcing lines mistake from the instructions. It should help you fix that problem.

Finally, Ghosted Planes. It would have been nice if you had taken a photo of the planes before you drew the ellipses but it isn't a big problem. Your lines are starting to look more confident. They're arcing less here. There's a bit of overshot lines here and there. One thing that should never forget is that each line has to be ghosted, in other words, you have place the starting and ending dot in order to use the ghosting method correctly. On the cross, you didn't place dots to ghost your line.

Ellipses

Let's move on to Table of Ellipses. Your ellipses aren't too bad but there is definitely room for improvement. You should always draw through your ellipse two to three times (preferably two times), no more or less. You followed this rule for the most part but there still are some ellipses where you did more than 3 rotations. Another thing that I need to point out is that your ellipses are wobbly a lot. Yet again, confident is more important than accuracy. It's true that the objective of the exercise is to have ellipses that touch all 4 sides of the frame without overlapping other ellipses but don't sacrifice all of your confident lines for that.

Then we have Ellipses in Planes. To be honest, everything that I said on the previous exercise also applies here. The only thing that I can add is that some of your ellipses look better here (especially on the second page).

Lastly, Funnels. your ellipses are looking even better here. There are some that have a pointy end that you should definitely avoid doing but besides that it looks great. On the 3rd funnel of the second page, your minor axis doesn't cut your ellipses in two perfect halves because the line isn't centered.

Boxes

Now, Plotted Perspective. Good job overall. I would just suggest to add a bit of line-weight and hatch one of the visible sides of each box to help clarify the boxes as explained on the step 8.

Moving on, Rough Perspective. Your guesses were more or less accurate for the most part. Your extended lines usually stopped near the vanishing point which is great. Remember to be patient when extending your lines. You overshot some lines - they should stop exactly at the vanishing point. Another thing is that the lines that aren't going to the vanishing point should be parallel or perpendicular to the vanishing point. This task becomes a lot harder to accomplish when you mess up some earlier lines of the box... Just keep that in mind. Also, most of what I said so far about lines also applies here (arcing lines, wobbly lines, etc.)

Going on to Rotated Boxes. This exercise is tough! It was for me, it was for you and it is for many other students. As explained on Lesson 0, we shouldn't grind. The major problem on your first attempt is that you made the back side of the box TOO SMALL. Besides that, you were doing mostly right. On your second attempt, you were doing even better because the back side of the box isn't as small as on your first attempt. You only had to draw the inner lines (the lines that we can't see) of some of the boxes and you would have 1/4 of great boxes!

And finally, Organic Perspective. It looks mostly alright. It is a bit too cluttered with that many boxes (nothing wrong with that!) but some clever line-weight would have done wonders. I have here a little guide on how to apply line-weight to this exercise. Take a look! One mistake that you repeat quite often is that your initial Y had an angle smaller than 90°. All angles should be greater than 90°as explained here. If you break this rule, your boxes will look distorted. This is explained more in detail on the Additional Notes Section.

In conclusion

Congrats on finishing the lesson! You've improved a lot since the beginning of the lesson but there still are many areas where you need to improve. As I said multiple times throughout the critique: Confidence > Accuracy

Never forget this! Remember to do warm-ups every day, as explained here (from Lesson 0), and focus on your current weakest skills - being lines.

Good luck on your journey!

Hi GoodBoy123, I'm here to take a look at your submission today!

Before starting, I would like to thank you for helping the community by writing some critiques too! Writing critiques also helps you solidify some concepts that you learned on earlier lessons.

Let's get started, shall we?

Extended Lines - Convergence

You extended your lines in the correct direction throughout the entire challenge. The lines were mostly converging to the same point, with one or two that were diverging because of the placement of the inner corner. Placing the inner corner correctly is tricky, I know!

In general, you did an amazing job on this regard.

The only mistake that I noticed as I was looking over your boxes was:

- Box 126 and 221 have one set of lines extended in the wrong direction

As I just said, you did an amazing job on this part and I'm pretty sure these two mistakes were done on accident.

Here's a little guide that I like to put on all of my critiques about the inner corner.

Hatching Lines

While optional, they're an excellent exercise to practise ghosted lines. If we compare the first page to the last, it's clear that all this hatching helped you have more confident lines! At the start, your lines were a bit wobbly and by the end of the challenge they look much better. You also always hatched one of the visible sides of the box. Good job here, too!

Line-weight

Everything that I said about your hatching also applies here. You've improved a lot since you started the challenge. At the beginning your line-weight was all over the place with some THICK lines. Remember that a single superimposed line over the silhouette is enough. I noticed that at earlier stages, you used two to three superimposed lines. One superimposed line is more than enough.

In general, you did a solid job! I'll mark your submission as completed but I still need to point out some extra details.

While your boxes are great, they look too similar to each other. The angle and dimensions are usually the same. You should have tried some "wackier" boxes. Here's a little image that might give you some inspiration, also you could have tried drawing boxes with just two visible sides. Don't be afraid to experiment! If you're drawing a box with 3 visibles sides, the only rule that you must follow is that the angles of the initial Y should be bigger than 90°. Besides that, you can change everything.

Good job! =)

They still are arcing a bit and you're overshoting a bit your lines too but besides that it's well done. Your inner corner looks better now too!

I'm going to mark your submission as completed!

Good luck on Lesson 2 Lesson 3!

Hi, Zakinithos! I'm JoaoSiilva and I'm here to take a look at your submission today. =)

Before starting, I would like to thank you in advance for the critiques that you've written! By writing critiques, you've helped the community and I'm pretty sure that you've learned something new too!

Let's begin!

Extended Lines

At the start of the challenge, you were often extending the lines in the wrong direction. Remember that the initial Y tells you in which direction you should extend the lines. It's always away from the center of the initial Y. After this "rough" start, you were always extending the lines in the correct direction and the lines were long enough to check the convergences (or divergences).

I noticed that you didn't extend all the lines for the boxes #159-162, and #179-182 too! Excluding that and some boxes from the the beginning of the challenge that weren't extended correctly, you did a good job.

Just in case, here's a diagram that shows you how to extend the lines.

Divergences and parallels

Another problem that occurred often is that you had lines diverging. Usually it was due the inner corner that messed up the box but there also are boxes like #113 or #173 that have entire sets of lines diverging. By the end of the challenge you almost never did this mistake.

Like it was explained on the website, you're aiming for boxes with shallow perspective and some boxes with a more dramatic perspective here and there to get a better grasp at how the vanishing points influence your boxes.

And about the inner corner that I mentioned before, one tip that personally helped me a lot was to draw the inner corner a bit earlier. That way, there's a higher chance that your box will look solid! Here's a little guide on that.

Hatching

While optional, it is a great way to improve the quality of your lines as you're doing the challenge. I'm glad that you hatched one side of each box but I need to point out that it sometimes looks rushed and the lines themselves were arcing or were wobbly. Remember that you can always ghost them.

Line-weight

You did not add line-weight to your boxes. You should have done another superimposed line on the silhouette of the box like it was explained here on the website.

When adding line-weight, remember that confidence is more important than accuracy (as always).

Lines in general

You overshot many lines and your lines sometimes were a bit wobbly or arcing. Like I said on the previous point, always aim for confident lines.

Distorted boxes

Finally, some boxes like #180 and 243 look distorted because one the angles of the initial Y was smaller than 90°. If the box has 3 visibles sides, then all 3 angles of the Y should be bigger than 90°. Here's a diagram about the angles of the initial Y for boxes with 2 or 3 visible sides.

By the end of the challenge, your boxes were starting to be consistently good but I feel like you should do a few more. The very last page that you did now (Feb 2021) looks quite good if we ignore the lines that were arcing or that you overshot.

So, I'm going to ask you to do 5 extra boxes. Keep in mind everything that I said and reply to this critique with your revision. And remember, DO NOT rush to do them. Take your time.

Thank you for your critique. I'll keep working hard to fix those mistakes!

For now, here's the Coconut Crab that you asked me to do. I hope it shows that I understood most of the concepts explained on this lesson.

I'm glad I could help you! :)

And yeah, those diagrams/images are really useful to explain certain mistakes (most of these were created by our big community on Discord)

The one about the inner corner was game changing to me too!

Good luck on Lesson 2! It's a lot shorter than the 250 Box challenge (as expected) but you'll be introduced to many new concepts at the same time! It's really fun!

i think you finally got the hang of most mistakes. You've improved a lot with these 25 boxes that I asked you to do, don't you think?

To fix your problem with the inner corner that makes some lines diverge, you should place the inner corner a bit earlier. Like this: guide

It takes some boxes to get used to it so don't be shocked if it doesn't go well on your first 5-10 boxes.

I'll mark your your submission as complete. I suggest you to keep doing boxes from time to time to keep improving even more during your warm-ups.

Good luck on your journey!

Thank you for looking at my submission! =)

Besides the wasp and the fly (which were done following the demo) did you not find anything worth mentioning about the 10 insects (the actual homework) that I did? Were all 10 insects "really good stuff" in your opinion?

I did around 1h - 1h30 per stitting and it usually was 6-8 boxes per day. This challenge is a LONG one but I don't think you're overthinking or anything. You really need to take your time to check the convergences as you're doing the boxes.

It took me one month and half to finish the challenge doing boxes almost daily.

These are already looking much better. Just don't forget that the angles between of initial Y should all be bigger than 90 degrees. Otherwise there will be distortion (like your box #6). There are two boxes with an angle slightly smaller than 90 degrees.

Also, good job on drawing those boxes bigger! :)

For the next boxes I'll ask you to try more different angles. Try to use the Y randomizer that I had mentioned on my critique. And try to make the lines converge just a bit more. Your lines are either almost parallel or actually diverging a little.

Keep up the good job!