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10-15 minutes spread across the 2-3 exercises.

You can find the details in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBjTGvpd-q8

Hello

Your line are not that wobbly but you tent to curve your line as as told earlier it may happen because not using shoulder pivot but one factory might also effect is when your are executing your mark your putting too much pressure on pen

Anyway I can tell you already understand the concept told in lesson 1 so continue practicing these exercises as warm up it will going to take bit time but you will improve best of luck

Hey Ho,

I will try to put out my first critique to you.

Let start with the first section.

Lines:

• The strokes look confident to me and are not too wobbly. They are not perfect, but it looks like you get the point out of the lessons.

• in some lines there is fraying in the beginning, just keep an eye on it.

• I recognize some wobbling lines in the ghosting planes section. Make your strokes confident, they are looking good!

Ellipses:

.- not all of them are drawn through 2 to 3 times

. - otherwise, there are looking good to me. Most are not overlapping and are close together.

Boxes:

.- well yes there are a few mistakes in perspective, but this is totally normal. You did draw through the boxes. And you can see the space. They will get better with practice.

One advice, if you highlight some areas, try to use the ghosting method and make confident strokes. Not these wobbling scribbles.

I hope this will kind of help you out. In my opinion, you can start the 250 Box challenge, but let's see what more experienced users will tell you. =)

Keep up the good work, and sorry for my bad English.

Hi there LILYWANNADRAW, i'll be the one looking over your submission and hopefully i'll be able to provide a helpful but on-point critique,

So to start off as you progress, your markmaking and the confidence in your lines have improved, you've also experimented with a good deal of shallow and dramatic foreshortened boxes as well as varying orientations. There are still some issues here but congrats on being able to complete this challenge, not everyone in this curriculum have the patience to draw 250 boxes for half a month or even longer, so hopefully after this challenge you'll be able to continue pushing through this course.

• Extension Lines - The most common issue that i've found throughout the challenge is that you seem to struggle to find the correct positioning of your extension lines, now the problem with incorrect positioning of the extension lines is that it could make distorted boxes look natural and when you're correcting boxes, it isn't quite accurate and you might not be able to tell if what you're doing is correct or not, one solution to this mistake is to draw small little arrows in the initial y like the one shown here.

• Hatching & Lineweight - Greatwork in your hatching as well as your lineweight, i can see for the line-weight that you were able to only add 1 additional line creating a appealing silhouette for the box, there are some hiccups like adding some lineweight to the initial y or at the back plane of the box, but it's very minimal. for the hatchings you've also done good for making them consistent and tight.

• Convergence by pairs, divergent lines, parallel lines - so far the common issue that i've seen here is the convergence by pairs and parallel lines, this is a common issue among students and so keep in mind that a set of line should converge into a single point not onto multiple points, a line should never diverge away from the vanishing point, and due to perspective a line should never be completely parallel. so this image here https://imgur.com/8PqQLE0 could help you visualize or atleast open another pov when it comes to converging extension lines.

• in some pages there are boxes that you've drawn that's a bit too small, when drawing boxes it's better to only limit each page with 5-6 boxes and make them big so that you won't be able to give any room for your wrist.

Overall this is a pretty solid submission, i won't be letting you go for a bit since i'd like to see you do 15 boxes without the extension line extending in the wrong direction, but generally i think you've done a great job and have grasped the content of what the lesson is for.

Hello

Don't try to correct anything, you make a mistake, you continue with it, even if it makes for a deformed result, as long as it looks 3d, even if skewed. If it is really bad, start again on a new paper (for big constructions) or on the side (for little exercises likes leaves). The point is for you to do it well on the first shot, so do more preparing and stuff to calculate how the real trajectory is supposed to be.

You can use copypaper and ballpoint pen, super cheap.

As explained here in Lesson 0, you would indeed have to get feedback on your Lesson 1 work, ideally before moving onto the 250 box challenge. While we do what we can to equip people with the means to critique each others' work effectively, the official critiques are generally much more thorough. We require students submitting for official critique get their feedback all the way through to ensure nothing important is missed or overlooked, as this can make later critiques that much more difficult.

To be completely honest, I think this is going to be better asked to a physician who is more familiar with your specific challenges. At the end of the day, every restriction and requirement I set out for students - drawing from their shoulder, not leaning on their elbows, etc etc etc. gets thrown into the wind when we start taking physical disabilities into consideration. While I have to be pretty firm with people who don't have diagnosed disabilities that the muscle exhaustion they experience after drawing from their shoulders is normal, that we are pushing ourselves to do things in a way that inevitably will be uncomfortable for us, simply because people have a tendency to think themselves uniquely unqualified for the tasks, your situation is fundamentally different.

Talk to your physician and find out what kind of stress your body is going to be okay with, and what might actually be harmful for you in the long run. If drawing from the shoulder is simply not an option for you, then that changes things - it means you'll be drawing from the elbow at best, and suddenly anchoring your elbow on the table by leaning on it becomes a useful approach, rather than something to avoid.

Always remember that you are going to have to be extra patient with yourself, and accept that because your situation is more unique, there will be "rules" that simply cannot reasonably be applied to you. This doesn't mean you can't draw, but it does mean that there will be new strategies you'll have to come up with along the way for yourself, and that these more generalized frameworks won't necessarily apply to you in every possible way. There's still plenty of value here for you, but don't hurt yourself while trying to conform to every little bit.

Imgur as you can easily scroll through the images.

Yes, you should be using a ruler/straight edge for the entirety of this exercise. I mention this in the first paragraph of the exercise instructions.