1:45 PM, Sunday January 31st 2021
Greetings! I'll be critiquing your submission on Lines, Ellipses, and Boxes
But before that, I'll have to advise you that if you're willing to be in this for the long-run that you should get a better ballpoint that won't dry up as fast and take better pictures in a room that has adequate lighting so other people can critique you easier. Now, onto the critique
Lines
Your lines have seen a good amount of improvement from start to finish but it seems like you sometimes still lack the confidence to commit with your lines, you'll get much more practice with the 250 boxes challenge and/or the warmups, just keep in mind that you're prioritizing confidence over accuracy, it's fine if you overshoot or fall short but still keep them in the back of your mind
Ellipses
The ellipses as seen from the table of ellipses exercise seem very confident and smooth but that confidence seems to have decreased on the funnels, the main purpose of this is to make your minor axes match the line while also controlling its size, just like the lines always prioritizing confidence over accuracy, speaking of accuracy they're actually pretty decent, you can improve them further when doing the warmups but even in warmups prioritize confidence and make accuracy be your second goal
Boxes
In the plotted perspective you're supposed to them in 2 point perspective as referred here (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/step3), the vertical lines are supposed to be perpendicular to the horizon, but because I trust that you understand how to make a correct box as shown in your rough perspective exercise which utilized the T method I won't request for revisions
Instead, I ask you to do them correctly in the warmups and experiment with the vanishing points on the 250 box challenge
In the rotated boxes you didn't actually rotate the boxes on the sides, but that's totally fine as the whole point is just to try and do some critical thinking while drowning
This is how you rotate a box https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/rotation, what you instead did was this https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating
So to reiterate and surmise the overall things that I said.
1. Consider taking better pictures and getting better ballpoint pens
2. Prioritize confidence over accuracy
3. The technical skills that you don't have full control which are lines and ellipses can be improved with warmups
4. Read the written mistakes and purpose closer and experiment with the boxes on the 250 box challenge
Next Steps:
You are ready to do the 250 box challenge and don't forget to do the warmups which is to pick 3 exercises and do each for 5 minutes.
-oh and as a final tip for the upcoming challenge try to experiment as much as possible with different orientations, sizes, points of perspective, etc, -to get the most out of that challenge, it really helps with your intuition if you try to understand how it fundamentally works rather than perfecting one box with a fixed scale and fixed view 10 times