Stormlord

Nice work!

You can tell by the last pages that you started gaining in confidence, and your lines have improved a lot by the end.

Now, for a little more detail:

• Super-Imposed lines: There is some arcing and wobbly in your longer lines. Start applying ghosting, and draw them confidently and one swoop. While ghosting was not initially part of the lesson, I heavily suggest using it from here on, as it will also help you apply line-weight in future exercises. As for arcing, you display a very distinct direction, and as such you can mentally prepare your hand to draw in the opposite arc. After a while, they will balance out, and you'll get a straighter line.

• Ghosting lines: I'd keep doing this exercise at least until Lesson 2 is complete. While it is suggested you phase it out in favor of the planes exercise, you need a little more mileage in this. Having it as a singular focus will help.

• Planes: Significant arcing. See super-imposed Lines. The circles look ok for this step, keep them as warmup.

• Ellipses and Circles: Your ellipses are generally smoothly curved and ok. But your circles need a lot of work, I'd suggest a table of circles alone in your warmups until you get them right.

• Funnels: Generally good, most of them are well aligned in their minor axis, although a few(like first page, lower right corner) have been skewed a little. There is some degree change, but I suggest for the future warmups to be bolder with the degrees, and push them to be wider.

• 2P Perspetive: Took your time, and it came out great.

• 1P Perspective: Mostly ok, but you missed the chance to experiment with the edges of your frame. You should put more boxes there, and even experiment with some of them being cropped, so you can get the feeling of extreme side-views. Keep this in mind for your warmups.

• Rotated Boxes: Decent attempt, be sure to return to it every now and then to test your improvement, and to understand rotation more.

• Organic Perspective: Again a decent attempt, and your lines seem much better here, suggesting that practice has had a success. Nothing more to say here, since you are about to head to the 250 boxes challenge.

Congratulations on finishing this challenge, it takes patience and tenacity to grind through 250 boxes!

In general, you have a good sense of convergence and you are decent in accuracy, and it feels there has been improvement in both by the end.

Unfortunately, you drew the boxes too small, and you did not give enough space to your mind to really take the full depth of the page in. Had you been a little more generous with the size, I feel you would have improved even more. As it was, slight deviations went mostly unnoticed in the form, only your line showing the error. A bigger box would have shown that error by the time you finished it.

Still, you did the work, and you didn't do it sloppily. You improved, and if you take my advice in mind, you will continue to improve.

Good evening!

That is a lot of hard and good work. You took your time with each box, your lines are confident and mostly accurate. You were quite decent from the start, and you have improved by the end.

One common theme you've probably noticed is that hidden corner and edge leading to the VP. While it's very hard to get it down accurately (even the slightest deviation in any other edge will misalign it), getting it close enough should give you the ideal box for the purposes of drawing. In that sense, missing by a little is ok, going wildly off leads to a non-boxy shape altogether.

Still, as you have shown, practice makes perfect.

That is relieving to hear, boss! I hope I can overcome the need for it after practice, as my errors in estimations tend to follow a pattern (usually the front corner, by 3-5o overestimation, and 1o-2o underestimation in 4th horizontal of top plane).

Thank you for your answer!

Yeah, I always rotate the page and ghost the line a few times, but it is never enough to know if an angle will come alright or not. It is almost always off by a few degrees.

Still, boss said it's not that big of a deal, so I can rely on it as I continue my journey!

Apologies for being almost two month late, but quarantine found me away from my house and desktop, and I was unable to access most of my personal sites.

You seem to have understood the concept, keep practicing and improve on the concepts as laid above. Set some time to do the exercises, but don't grind them. Small time investment and consistency will help you more than grinding until perfection.

I am really sorry this took so long, but I was down with the flu and wasn't able to stay at my PC at all.

You've done a superb job on those ellipses, you took the time and got the concept. That's what important. Improvement will come with practice, and that's what the warm-ups are for!

For your pens dying, this is in part to the nature of the exercises, but also in part to your use. Like me, you probably have a heavy hand and that wears them down quickly. I have improved in this regard (my pens do hold more than just an exercise, as it was when I started) but I think it'll take even more time. My advice is to keep the semi-dead pens, and practice free hand strokes, with your focus being on doing them lightly and fast. Don't go for something specific, just doodle enough to help your hand untense and relax. In time, softer strikes will become the normal.

Keep up the good work!

Good evening,

First of all let me apologize. Using the word box was an error on my part, I should have said face, side or rectangle to convey what I had in mind. I didn't realize the confusion I could cause, until your reply.

https://imgur.com/rqC5V82

I marked the lines I meant. Those should not be drawn with a ruler, they should be drawn free-hand.

Only lines that must be drawn with the ruler are the page frame and the horizon. Nothing else.

It's quite alright, this course isn't about becoming perfect (hint: you won't). It's about realizing what works and what doesn't. And now you have a very good idea what doesn't and how to approach it.

Congratulations on finishing the challenge!

Congratulations on doing 250 Boxes. This is trully a challenge, and one where it's easy to get lost in your drive to finish them that the quality drops near the end for many people. This isn't true for you, you kept your construction careful, and I feel you improved from the first box to the 250th.

That said, there is a certain kind of mistake that you tend to make a lot, and you've noticed it. You underestimate the angle of the back frame, and that ruins the whole construction.

Noticing it is the first step, and it's a good sign that you saw it. What you didn't do, and it's the second part in learning, is work to fix it.

You know that you understimate the angle. Now, when you construct your boxes, overestimate it. You think it's good, give it a bit of a more angle. Try it a few times, and you'll find out exactly how wider you should make it, and it'll become second nature.