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Some of the lines on the later pages (most of the boxes) look like they've been gone over multiple times. It seems like this maybe detracts from the goal of being "confident" in the lines. But other than that I think it looks like the excercises were completed correctly and with intentionality!

Hi Jamzoltan!

I'll be working on your critique today! :) I'll be dividing it into 3 parts as follows:

LINES

• Super Imposed Lines - Your superimposed lines are looking good! You've managed to start at the same starting point as well. You've drawn some confident strokes but there is a little bit of wobbling in some of the lines. This shows that you're not exactly confident in your lines and you slow down to make sure that your line is accurate. Note that in this lesson the focus is on confidence and not accuracy. However, you've done well to make sure each line starts at the starting dot as there is no fraying at the beginning which is an important aspect of this exercise. The fraying at the end will clear up as you practise this exercise more.

• Ghosted Lines - Once again your lines here show a little wobbling. It is very clear you're not confident in your stroke. Do take your time to ghost and once you've ghosted a few times, just let loose! We're not trying to be accurate in this lesson, it's ALL about confidence! I sense you're focusing on trying to reach the end dot too much. When you ghost, let your hand move over the two points a few more times than you have when you did this exercise and then mark the paper. You'll do better the more you ghost. :)

• Ghosted Planes - Your planes also exhibit the same issues I explained previously, i.e. the wobbling/confidence issue. However, there is also another small thing I'd like to mention which is the S and C curves I see in some of the lines. For the subtle c-curved lines, one thing that you can do is to consciously arch the opposite way to maintain a straight line when ghosting, this can help lessen the arching problem. For the subtle s-curved line, try to ghost a lot of times before actually committing to it, you can also increase the speed of ghosting. Once again, the purpose of this exercise is not accuracy but confidence in your stroke. Again, with practice, this will come to you. Keep these points in mind when doing these exercises during your warm-ups.

ELLIPSES

• Tables of Ellipses - Your table looks good! You've done a good job of ghosting your ellipses and I can see you have a little more confidence here as there isn't any obvious wobbling. In addition, you've correctly maintained the 2-stroke ellipse and you've ensured that each ellipse is drawn within and touching its borders. I can see you've reduced your ghosting though in the ellipses on the bottom-left side of the first image. The more you ghost, the tighter these ellipses will be so keep in mind to take as long as you need to ghost before marking the paper.

• Ellipses in Planes - I think you may have ghosted more while doing this exercise as you've drawn better ellipses here! You've ensured that the edges of the ellipses touch all 4 sides of the plane. I see a little wobble in a few ellipses but this issue has already been mentioned. Don't focus on accuracy, always focus on confidence.

• Funnels - There is a relative symmetry with the minor axis cutting the ellipses so that looks fine. However, the same issues of wobble/focusing on accuracy and not enough ghosting are seen here. I won't repeat my advice again but keep it in mind when you tackle this exercise for practise. Overall, not too bad.

BOXES

• Plotted Perspective - Everything looks good here, no issues at all! I noticed that you've not plotted some of the edge lines to the vanishing point. That's fine though keep in mind having done so would be beneficial to you as you can see exactly where your lines will be going rather than stopping a little bit before the vanishing point. You've followed Uncomfortable's example image perfectly as I see you've done it for the last set of boxes on the page similar to him. :)

• Rough Perspective - There's a little wobble curvature to your lines but we've already covered this before so I won't go into it again. Good job on keeping the lines either perpendicular or horizontal to the horizon! Also, you've accurately used the line correction method and drawn through your boxes. On the page with the red pencil, you have incorrectly gone over the horizon but you've corrected that mistake in the second page when you did it in purple. All in all, good job here! Just focus on the wobble and curves and you're good!

• Rotated Boxes - Really good job here! Some students really struggle with this exercise. It is clear that your spatial awareness is good as you've rotated your boxes quite accurately while maintaining quite a close distance with each corner of the boxes. A little bit of curving and wobble can be seen here too in your line work but I'm sure this will improve over time.

• Organic Perspective - The organic boxes look good! You've kept a good sense of rotation as well as perspective here too so good job! Once again though the wobbling lines can be seen and it's even seen in the main swoopy line you've drawn before you drew the boxes. One thing I did notice which is a big mistake is that in 2-3 boxes and even parts of the swoopy line, you've drawn through your stroke twice. This is a big no-no. Regardless of what mistake you made, you should not draw over an already existing stroke. No matter how off a line is, you should never repeat it, you should keep the line as it if were correct and move on. Once again this shows the lack of confidence. If you have ghosted, you may not have felt like you needed to redraw it as it would have been a little more accurate.

Looking at your work as a whole, this is a good submission and I'm confident you'll improve over time. Keep in mind to ghost more and work on the wobbling and curvature of your lines. Ensure to ghost from the shoulder too as sometimes the curving can prevented when you ghost from the shoulder and not from the wrist. Using your wrist limits how straight your line can be.

With practice, I'm sure you'll do well! :) However, I'd like to see a little more work from you as I'm not 100% confident you've understood the concepts taught in this lesson.

Hi! Congratulations on completing Lesson 1, you did a great job!

Lines:

• Remember to use your shoulder and to draw confidently for straight lines

Everything else is good

Ellipses:

• They look nice, you can work with their position

Everything else is good

Boxes:

• I can see your progress in understanding how perspective works, so I can only advise you to practice more

Everything else is good

Hello CobaltFlynt, congratulations on finishing Lesson one, and glad that even though with limited time, you were able to carry through the assignments, no matter how long the break is, what matters is you did not dropped the attempts.

Now lets have a look at your attempt.

Lines:

Your Superimposed lines have a good confident strokes with little to no fraying at beginning in most and you have also given a try to superimposed arches as well which will further help you to achieve a good markmaking practice so that is a really nice attempt, now as for the fraying at end and trajectories deviating away from the end points, do not worry about accuracy for now, that will improve over time with deliberate practice(or warmups).

Same goes for your Ghosted lines, good confident strokes, a slight wobble is present here and there but it will improve with deliberate practice as well.

Same again for Ghosted planes, mostly good confident strokes, and also it seems you have takend good care of placing the start and end points(dots) for the lines going through/inside the planes that is the middle and diagonal ones, which most students miss, they are crucial part of the process so kudos.

With that said, your Lines are done in a neat and confident way.

Ellipses:

Your Table of Ellipses contains good confident ellipses as well which are drawn through at least twice, and you have taken good care to keep most of the ellipses in each section to have similar or same degree of openness and angle of orientation, further these degrees and angles are varied mostly in different sections that is again good for practicing variations, you have also tried to take good care of keeping most of the ellipses within bounds, that is they are touching the borders as well adjacent ellipses(mostly), there are gaps in some sections but do not worry a little bit of deviation is acceptable as the accuracy will improve over time, so another good attempt.

Same goes for your Funnels exercise, it also contains good confident strokes, some ellipses are being bisected by the minor axis equally as well, but do take care that the minor axis(middle line) is supposed to bisect "each" ellipse into two equal parts, it is difficult at first as it relies heavily on accuracy, but don't worry for now, with enough deliberate practice that will also improve over time. What you can do for now is to try keeping the minor axis right in the middle of funnel, then try drawing ellipses over it, further if you want you can also try varied degree of openness of ellipses, being the narrowest ellipse emerging from centre and they gets more open as you move towards the end points.

The Ellipses in Ghosted planes adds another level of difficulty, but you have done great to keep most of your ellipses smooth and confident while also going over them atleast twice, but we can see some ellipses just levitating within a plane and not touching a single edge, so remember, even though smooth ellipses are our primary goal, accuracy is also important, deliberate practice will help with that.

Boxes:

The boxes are difficult to attempt at first if you are not used to them, so again kudos for attending them nonetheless. And apart from things mentioned above:

Your Plotted Perspective is done neatly.

Your Rough perspective, the strokes are mostly confident with little to no wobble at all and you have taken care to keep the width parallel to the horizon and the height perpendicular which is yet again a good point, and do not worry about accuracy that much right now. but, I witnessed that in few boxes in particular you have drawn over another mark/s over the initial stroke to rectify the trajectory of original mark, so I have to say that you should absolutely avoid correcting your inital mark, as that song says you have only one shot, so no matter how inaccurate your initial mark is, treat it as the correct one and move forward with that, no correcting at all, so do take an important note of this for your future exericses and warmups.

Your rotated boxes, it turned out pretty well. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps consistent. While the rotations here aren't perfect still this was a good effort overall. The more you draw and develop your spatial thinking ability the easier these rotations are to handle. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons or the boxes challenge to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved.

Finally the organic perspective, besides the points mentioned earlier including the correcting mark remark, it is a good attempt, kudos. And I will just add this regarding lineweights "Lineweight should be added with confident ghosted lines, and solely to the part of lines to overlap, not to whole lines." for future reference.

With that said, its an overall good attempt, as for the things I mentioned above, do take note of them while doing your future warmups and exercises especially the point of not correcting your initial mark, it might take time to get used to, sure, but improvement will be there.

Hello Yinnya, congratulations on finishing lesson one.

Now lets have a look at your attempt.

Lines:

Your superimposed lines are drawn with confidence and there is little to no fraying at the beginning so that is a good point, as for the fraying at the end, it will get better with time, in the longer lines, we can see a little bit of arch, this can be due to several reasons including, having an innate arch in your strokes, which can be dealt by trying to consciously make a negative arch of similar degree, another reason can be is to not using or being new at using the shoulder as pivot which might get better once you get used to drawing with shoulders so do not worry about these, but do take note, and it will get better with time if you do regular deliberate practice.

As for your Ghosted lines, it seems you have not uploaded the image.

Now as for your Ghosted planes, you have drawn with confident strokes so kudos there, but I have noticed that for in the inner lines in planes, you have not marked the start and end points for ghostingm so let me point this out that how crucial it too mark these points as they set a good base for your planning and ghosting method, remember one of the intention of course is to have a stroke of mark with meaning and planning, and having arbitrary lines deviates us from that path, so do take an extreme care about this for your warmups and future exercises. With that said, it is a good attempt nonetheless and as for not hitting the end points in some lines or overshooting and undershooting, do not worry that either for now as accuracy will improve over time as well.

Ellipses:

In your Table of Ellipses, majority of your ellipses are drawn confidently, drawn through atleast twice(twice or thrice is ideal, just saying for future reference as some students try to overdo them as well, so keeping them in the range of 2-3 is best) and are mostly bound within the area, that is they are touching the adjacent borders or ellipses, which in my opinion is really good attempt. A little bit of missing the bounds here and there is reasonable, and most of your sections have ellipses with same or similar degrees and angles which is also a good try.

Same for Ellipses in planes, you have confident ellipses.

Now as for Funnels exercise, most of the ellipses are confident, but we can see a slight bit of wobble here and there that can be due to several reasons including hesitation and aiming for accuracy over smooth strokes, do take care of this for your future warmups and exercises that even though accuracy is important, having a smooth and confident ellipse takes our first priority for now. The minor axis(the middle line) is bisecting most of the ellipses into two equal parts but some ellipses are being a little off, so also take care of this during your warmup sessions. With that said, your funnles exercise was done nicely.

Boxes:

The boxes are difficult at first, so again kudos for attending them nonetheless.

Your Plotted Perspective is done nicely.

In your Rough Perspective, you have taken good care to keep the width parallel to the horizon and the height perpendicular which is yet again a good point. And again, not to worry about accuracy that much right now.

Your rotated boxes, it turned out pretty well. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps consistent. While the rotations here aren't perfect still this was a good effort overall. The more you draw and develop your spatial thinking ability the easier these rotations are to handle. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons or the boxes challenge to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved.

Finally the organic perspective, besides the points mentioned earlier, it is a really good attempt, kudos. And I will just add this regarding lineweights "Lineweight should be added with confident ghosted lines, and solely to the part of lines to overlap, not to whole lines." for future reference.

So overall, It was a good attempt. I would mark your lesson as complete, I apologise but the missing page of ghosted lines is keeping me from that, hope you understand and hope you can upload it as soon as you are able to.

Hello ADIBHU, congratulations on finishing Lesson one.

Lets have a look at your attempt now.

Lines:

Your superimposed lines are drawn with confidence and there is little to no fraying at the beginning so that is a good point, further the fraying at the end is relatively controlled as well which is another good point, even if they are controlled, they are still frayed but do not worry about this, it will get better with time if you do regular deliberate practice.

Your ghosted lines are drawn with confidence as well and as for not hitting the end points in few lines or overshooting and undershooting, do not worry that either for now as accuracy will improve over time as well. Though, I have to point this out that no matter how wrong your initial mark is, do not go over it or draw another mark inorder to correct your first mark. Repeating lines, no matter how off a line is, you should never repeat it, they should kept the line as it if were correct and move on.

In your ghosted planes, apart from points mentioned above, your strokes are confident, you marked the points for ghosting as well which is a good thing as some students miss to do that, so another good attempt.

Ellipses:

In your Table of Ellipses, majority of your ellipses are drawn confidently, drawn through atleast twice and are mostly bound within the area, that is they are touching the adjacent borders or ellipses, which in my opinion is really good attempt. A little bit of missing the bounds here and there is reasonable but we can also see a little bit of wobbliness in some of the ellipses, this can be due to several reasons including hesitation, not properly ghosting, doubting yourself while making marks or not using shoulder as your pivot, remember, our main goal for now is to get a smooth confident ellipse and the accuracy is being the secondary goal now, so do take good care of this and as I mentioned earlier regular deliberate warmups will fix that.

Same thing for your Ellipses in the Planes exercise, ellipses are drawn with confident strokes and again do not worry about the accuracy for now, we need to focus on smooth confident ellipses first.

Now as for Funnels exercise, apart from aforementioned points, most of the ellipses are confident, the minor axis(the middle line) is also bisecting some of the ellipses into two equal parts but some ellipses are being a little off, so also take care of this during your warmup sessions. With that said, your funnles exercise was done nicely.

Boxes:

The boxes are difficult at first, so again kudos for attending them nonetheless.

Your plotted perspective is done really nicely.

In your rough perspective, apart from the points mentioned above, you have taken good care to keep the width parallel to the horizon and the height perpendicular, though while executing the lines we can see that in some cases you have drawn over a line more than once to correct the initial trajectory, so I must tell you that no matter how far off the mark our inital stroke is, do not try to correct it, keep the original as intended and move on with it, this is one of the reason for using a fineliners in this course.

Your rotated boxes, it turned out pretty well. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps consistent, while the rotations here aren't perfect still this was a good effort overall. The more you draw and develop your spatial thinking ability the easier these rotations are to handle. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons or the boxes challenge to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved.

Finally the organic perspective, besids the points mentioned earlier, it is a really good attempt, kudos. And I will just add this regarding lineweights "Lineweight should be added with confident ghosted lines, and solely to the part of lines to overlap, not to whole lines.".

So overall, this was a good attempt. Kudos, and do remember the points mentioned above for your warmups and future exercises.

Hello BATUBARA, firstly congratulations on finishing lesson one, now lets have a look at your attempt.

Lines:

Your superimposed lines are drawn with confidence and there is little to no fraying at the beginning so that is a good point, as for the fraying at the end, it will get better with time, in the longer lines, we can see a little bit of arch, this can be due to several reasons including, having an innate arch in your strokes, which can be dealt by trying to consciously make a negative arch of similar degree, another reason can be is to not using or being new at using the shoulder as pivot which might get better once you get used to drawing with shoulders so do not worry about these, but do take note, and it will get better with time if you do regular deliberate practice.

Your ghosted lines are drawn with confidence as well, and as for not hitting the end points in some lines or overshooting and undershooting, do not worry that either for now as accuracy will improve over time as well.

In your ghosted planes, apart from points mentioned above, your strokes are confident, you marked the points for ghosting as well which is a good thing as some students miss to do that, so another good attempt.

Ellipses:

In your Table of Ellipses, majority of your ellipses are drawn confidently, drawn through atleast twice(twice or thrice is ideal, just saying for future reference as some students try to overdo them as well, so keeping them in the range of 2-3 is best) and are mostly bound within the area, that is they are touching the adjacent borders or ellipses, which in my opinion is really good attempt. A little bit of missing the bounds here and there is reasonable and we can also see a little bit of wobbliness in some of the ellipses here and there but that is minimal so do not worry about that either as I mentioned earlier, regular deliberate warmups will fix that. But there is something I should point out, in each section we are supposed to draw ellipeses with same or similar degree and angle just as mentioned on the instruction page which you can check here, so make sure to do that in future warmups.

Same thing for your Ellipses in the Planes exercise, most of them are confidently drawn ellipses, drawn over atleast twice, and again do not worry about the accuracy here, as we can see in some planes that you have sacrificed the smoothness of the ellipses over the goal of touching the borders. Remember our main goal for now is to achieve a smooth and confident ellipse, which means no distortion at any cost.

Your funnels exercise is mostly done with good confident strokes as well, but we can see some ellipses not being bisected equally by the minor axis(the middle line), and a little bit of wobblyness as well here and there, though do not worry for now as at the moment we should focus on confident strokes more than the accuracy, but you should take a good note of this for future, and with time and deliberate practice even that will improve a lot.

Boxes:

The boxes are difficult at first, so again kudos for attending them nonetheless.

Your plotted perspective is done really nicely.

In your rough perspective, apart from the points mentioned above, you have taken good care to keep the width parallel to the horizon and the height perpendicular, though while executing the lines we can see that in some cases you have drawn over a line more than once to correct the initial trajectory, so I must tell you that no matter how far off the mark our inital stroke is, do not try to correct it, keep the original as intended and move on with it, this is one of the reason for using a fineliners in this course.

Your rotated boxes, it turned out pretty well. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps consistent in most areas, while the rotations here aren't perfect still this was a good effort overall. The more you draw and develop your spatial thinking ability the easier these rotations are to handle. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons or the boxes challenge to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved.

Finally the organic perspective, besids the points mentioned earlier, it is a really good attempt, kudos. And I will just add this regarding lineweights "Lineweight should be added with confident ghosted lines, and solely to the part of lines to overlap, not to whole lines.".

So overall, this was a good attempt. Kudos, and do remember the points mentioned above for your warmups and future exercises.

Hey @Abeanberry,

Thought I would drop in with a quick critique.

ARROWS

I liked how smooth and consistent your line work was. You really nailed the two parallel lines for each arrow component of the drawings so well done. Take notice of how your arrows are moving in perspective. A few got smaller as they come towards us which breaks the illusion. Several of the arrows are quite flat as well. You've made some very elongated by increasing the gap between S swoops. Some of the straighter arrows without many bends look really sharp (page 1 right middle).

CONTOUR SAUSAGES

Looking pretty good. A few times you drew very straight contour lines which gives the impression of flatness. ALso noticed some of the ellipses were not quite touching the edge which is an important piece to nail for a successful effect. Overall the ellipses look very tight, smooth and consistent.

TEXTURE ANALYSIS

No hatching! The HW guidelines say to avoid hatching for the sake of shading. In your crumpled paper texture you used lines to shade the dark areas. Every mark you make should be denoting something on the form. The effect looks alright but keep in mind the lesson guidlines. The bricks and the basketweave are very nice.

TEXTURED SHAPE

I can see how much attention and time you put into covering all the surfaces of the object. They're very nicely done. One thing to consider is the application of the gradient technique on your forms. This both saves time and also gives the viewer the opportunity to fill in their own details. Remember you don't need to draw every texture on the form. You can simply elude to them. Also, same with the texture analysis, try to avoid hatching and scribbling for the texture. Focus on the unique shadow shapes you see and do more of a two value contrast study. Later you can add in midtones with marker. Alternatively, used a toned piece of paper for the midtones and pick out highlights with a white gel pen or Posca paint pen.

Please take the critique of the shape textures for what they are. Overall the work is beautiful and you give the impression of the subject matter quite well. Really liked the pine cone!

SHAPE INTERSECTIONS

These look neat and tidy. The only things I noticed of issue were the cone points and the ellipse where they intersect a form. These two didn't match up well so I would recommend trying to place the ellipse within the two converging lines of the cone to achieve the effect. Also, some of your boxes had the convergence of the liens off kilter so try and make them all aim towards their VPs.

ORGANIC INTERSECTIONS

I think you went too far on trying to have the sausages concave or have irregular surfaces. These kinda look like they are made of jelly with how much the surface contours. Think about when you lay a sausage on top of another sausage. It will bend, but it has a solid interior structure so there isn't this oozing effect that most of your have.

That's all for now. Good work and keep going :)

Nice to meet you, CatBehemot! I'd like to give a review of your homework. It's evident you put a plenty of effort in understanding and making this, but there is a space for improvement, and sorry in advance if some parts sound harsh.

Lines

• Superimposed lines. The main purpose of this exercise is to achieve confidence in markmaking. While your lines do fray at one end throughout the submission, there is a progression of smoothness and reduction of wobbling that is a sign of improvement. You have a defined starting point for each line meaning you are putting effort and developing control. As for the line arching, make sure you keep pushing yourself to draw from your shoulder and if the arching persists, try to compensate by arching your lines in the opposite direction. It may be useful to add this exercise to your everyday warmups.

• Ghosted lines. Although there are some wobbly lines at the start, I can see that towards the end of the page they are becoming increasingly straight. As for that "bump" segment on some of the lines, you can work on it similarly to the arching, with the exception of applying the conscious effort only on the fragment instead of the whole line.

• Ghosted planes. There is a noticeable drop in line quality due to wobbling. Is it because you're overconcerning yourself with accuracy? Remember, that in these lessons the essential goal is to get confidence in drawing and only then think of meeting the dots exactly. Use the ghosting method as much as you need, push to draw from the shoulder and it also helps to look only at the destination. I think, I'll ask you to work on it a little bit more.

Ellipses

• Tables of ellipses. The ellipses are smooth enough for the beginning, good job. They are also pretty even, yet keep trying to improve the parts near the ends of major axes — as the most deviations usually happen there. You're also drawing them from two to three times as requested trying your best to touch the walls, and it's also nice as it shows how you're keeping attention to the instructions.

• Ellipses in planes. Just like in the case with planes, you seem too much focused on making them touch the lines resulting in them often being deformed. I see in your work that the ellipses are becoming more confident and elliptical in shape, but I think you may want to put some more work on them.

• Funnels. Your ellipses often tear into each other broking the rule of spacing or not being too loose. Additionally, some of them have quite abrupt ends near the major axes resulting in breaking the shape, so it would be a good point to fix. Alignment is not too bad, but there is still space for improvement.

Boxes

• Plotted perspective. It's correct techninally, you emphasize front faces with hatching and also seemingly add lineweight to the exterior — good work!

• Rough perspective. It is supposed to be a tough exercise and I see improvement in your work from panel to panel. You keep the vertical and the horizontal lines aligned to the page dimensions as needed, and you don't forget to apply the error-checking method in a correct way — keep up the good work! (although the linework could have been slightly better)

• Rotated boxes. A mind-boggling exercise for a beginner. But you did it pretty well. The most of the boxes look rotated and you use the existing corners as a guide when drawing newer boxes. (although, the top right/left corner boxes could have been slightly more rotated) However, an important markmaking mistake emerges there — you seem to draw a single line multiple times. If it is a lineweight problem, as I think, try practicing applying lineweight with the same ghosting method as you do when drawing your usual lines.

• Organic perspective. A good attempt, you experiment with varying the rotation degrees and try to keep the foreshortening rate consistent while making the boxes diminishing with depth. But, there are two main problems: your markmaking has troubles with wobbling and redrawing the lines, and supposed parallel lines often diverge when one extends them from a front edge instead of meeting at a vanishing point. When applying the Y-method, it can often be a result of not making sure all the initial Y angles are above 90 degrees. You will work more on perspective for the 250 boxes challenge, but at the same time this exercise a great display of linework skills, so I'll reassign it too.

Now, to conclude, you demonstrated that with practice you're capable of improving your skills. The most of the lesson was just fine, but I'd like to address the rest of the crucial concept problems — wobbling/arching issues — with a couple of revisions. I hope that these comments are to the point and it's not too much work for you.

Hello! NNGPGTRANG. I'm Chiran and I Decided To Check your Submission and offer my thoughts on your 250 box Challenge.

I'll try as best as possible to provide a helpful and solid analysis of your work.

before we get started these are the name given specifically because of their order and to represent the specific section of the boxes

Newbies - ( 1-100 boxes) 2. Intermediates - (101-200 boxes) and 3. pros - ( 201- 250 boxes).

This feedback will consist of three parts. So let's start exploring the three parts.

PART 1: THE PRAISES ( The job you did well in the challenge) :)

• The first and foremost job which was done well was taking the time to check your mistakes by extending the set of parallel lines away from the viewer. because of this, the Convergences in the pros are becoming Consistent at the end of the challenge.

• The job of ghosting is Also done well here. meaning you did take time to plan where your lines starts and Ends by plotting down the points before actually Committing to them and this should be continued throughout the rest of the course in order to develop some kind of patience and Confidence in drawing.

• another job you did well was constructing various varieties of boxes in this challenge without repeating the similar type of boxes. so thats great too!

PART 2: WHERE IT WENT SLIGHTLY OFF? ( Where you should keep an eye on) ( No worries part!)

I think you are headed in the right direction and you have understood the concept of perspective very well so the box challenge has done its job.but there are some hiccups in your work that needs to be identified and removed.

so yeah I will do my job to mention and identify some of the issues in your works and you can do your job by including 1-2 boxes in your warm ups to reduce them in the future.

Alright lets start with your Lines-

• Your line work looks really solid and confident but they are times where you seem to hesitate while executing resulting in a slow and wobbly lines. Like we can see on most of the newbies lines. they got better in the later boxes but you should always Aware of your mistakes and work towards them by trying your best to avoid them.

• while line weight and hatching are optional in this challenge.It would have been better if you had applied them ( only line weight ) Even from the beginning to reinforce the form you are constructing ( in this case box).They take time to get comfortable with, so the challenge is a great place to start practicing both. we advice you to continue using those tools even in warm ups to build mileages with them.

• also make sure that while applying Line weight and hatching lines that, the lines are preplanned and executed with confidence from the shoulder to avoid wobbly and inconsistent lines. ( planning means plotting down the starting and end points).

Moving on to Boxes:

• Of course Your Convergence set of parallel lines have much Improved at the End of the Challenge,but there are times where some of the set of lines converges at a faster rates than the others resulting in converging in pairs. yep this issue you can definitely work on, in your warm ups. by trying to know the relationships between each lines related to its distance.https://imgur.com/KSHwTwo. and the back corner lines got a little off of the tangent there. It's completely and totally normal at this stage to have the back corner line slightly off compared to the rest. but try to always keep in mind that every lines in the boxes behave differently even in a subtle manner( as in case of shallow foreshortening)

• If I just have to Nitpick something then, there are Times where your boxes have some divergence Issue with the lines.o we should remember always that all the parallel lines in the 3d world will appear to converge on a 2d flat page.so a set of parallel lines ( A set of parallel lines= 4 lines moving Either only in X or y or Z direction) converge to a specific vanishing point which lies either in X or y or Z direction.

• I just want to remind you something here is that- In a Minor areas some of the boxes are left incomplete. My suggestion on those is to always push yourself to complete the Boxes Even when you are not feeling to complete or not knowing how to Complete. So Complete them with your best of your current ability move on to the next by writing down the mistakes you have made in that box and try your best to reduce them in the future boxes. this is how we learn!.

PART 3: THE JOB WE CAN DO TO IMPROVE OUR BOXES IN OUR WARM UPS:

• The Converging in pairs and Lines diverging Issues will take more time and practice to get reduced in our work. So we should always be mindful of the lines relationship respective to its relative position from the Vanishing points. https://i.imgur.com/8PqQLE0.png.

THE INNER CORNER PARADOX: In this challenge, we are estimating where our lines going to converge to a point. as we are humans, it is almost impossible to perfectly estimate where our lines will going to converge thereby resulting in an error. this error will continue to accumulate as we construct the box freely rotated in space. finally this accumulated error will be thrown to the back corner. So its pretty normal to have the inner back corner come out pretty off.

I want to take a look at this info here;https://i.imgur.com/8PqQLE0.png

In this image we can know that how each line will behave relating to the position from its neighbouring edges and the VP.So we can arrive at the conclusion that, If the distance between the internal edges and external edges gets reduce more and more they will eventually become parallel to one and another ( but keep in mind they will converge slightly at a negligable amount no matter what). Alternatively If the distance between the internal corner and the external grow more and more the internal line will also converge.

you can also try and start from the back corner if the box is narrower.https://imgur.com/a/DHlA3Jh.

if your aware of these notes, then you need to build mileage by including 1-2 boxes in your daily warm up routine. after that your boxes will get better and better and will eventually make you happy at the end. :D

you can plot as many points of starting and end point of a line in a box and can check them without Even committing to them while ghosting over them.

• feel free to experiment with different speed of drawing your lines from point A to point B during your warm up session and opt for the smooth and consistent ones.If the lines came out dark, wobbly, contains subtle S curve and undershooted then increasing the speed of drawing your lines can reduce these issues. however if the lines are overshooting more and the flow of ink in your pen is inconsistent then its advisable to reduce the speed and try to lift the pen off the page when reaching the end dot.

• And as always continue to experiment with your boxes and have fun with it. practice some bigger boxes and dramatic foreshortening boxes to solve some more spatial problems.

• Always make an effort to take your time while adding line weight and hatching to boxes in order to reinforce the solidity we are conveying. make sure to plan them before executing them.because every marks we make should serve its purposes.

• Last but not the least, THE WARM UPS.

MY POINT OF VIEW:

we all know, this challenge was very intimidating because of constructing 250 boxes arbitrarily rotated in 3d and yet you did a great job by keeping persistent till the end with lots of effort, focus, energy and time so hats off for that. Be proud of What you have Accomplished

" A BOX A DAY KEEP OUR ISSUES AWAY"

Yes, We've come to the end of this feedback. overall, this was a solid submission Your submission reveals that you did take time to read through the lesson materials, followed the instructions and executed to your best of your ability. so that's good job!..thank you for submitting your assignment to the community.I'm confident that you will improve much better In the future by keeping the mistakes in mind in your Warm ups.

so yeah I'm allowing you to move on to Lesson 2 by marking your lesson as Complete.

Yippee ! we have completed this challenge. congratulations!. I hope this feedback helps . Have a wonderful artistic journey. keep goin. I'm awaiting to see your Progress.

Thank you NNGPG.