it looks quite a bit better now! interesting how the rotation of your vertical boxes is better than your horizontal ones. i'd say you're ready to move on now
all of your ellipses and a lot of your lines, particularly in your organic perspective exercises are very wobbly. remember to prioritize accuracy and smoothness over accuracy, and focus on drawing mainly from your shoulder.
have you been doing the warmups before all of your drawing sessions as instructed in lesson 0? if not, then this will help with consistency and the issues previously mentioned.
in your rotated boxes exercise, there is very little rotation on the boxes. https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/d73eea49.jpg
however, it looks like your spacing is consistent.
this should help you a lot for the rotated boxes exercise: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/368870697742630912/715669112222908466/zfr3o7xneog31.png
a small nitpick about your organic perspective is that a lot of your boxes have the same original "Y" shape and as a result you made a lot of boxes with a very similar rotation. since there's supposed to be two pages of this exercise, one page of organic perspective missing. you should do the second page with last point in mind, and i recommend you try this tool out to help you come up with random "Y" shapes: https://tasty-tangy-meeting.glitch.me/
once you're done, you should have a better understanding of boxes in 3D space and i would recommend you try out the rotated boxes again especially with the additional help i shared with you at the beginning.
your rotated boxes exercise is too small which makes it quite a bit more difficult for you.
in addition, the spacing is too inconsistent (https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/9a16c189.jpg),
and some of your boxes aren't rotating (https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/d73eea49.jpg), especially but not limited to the bottom right.
here's an additional resource that could help you out: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/368870697742630912/715669112222908466/zfr3o7xneog31.png
have you been doing warmups before every drawing sessions? it looks like even in your last page of organic perspective you have quite a bit of arcing going on in your lines. just a reminder to focus on mainly using your shoulder, and if you already are then it's something to work on going forward.
Let's be real here for a second: fineliners can get pricey. It varies from brand to brand, store to store, and country to country, but good fineliners like the Staedtler Pigment Liner (my personal brand favourite) can cost an arm and a leg. I remember finding them being sold individually at a Michael's for $4-$5 each. That's highway robbery right there.
Now, we're not a big company ourselves or anything, but we have been in a position to periodically import large batches of pens that we've sourced ourselves - using the wholesale route to keep costs down, and then to split the savings between getting pens to you for cheaper, and setting some aside to one day produce our own.
These pens are each hand-tested (on a little card we include in the package) to avoid sending out any duds (another problem with pens sold in stores). We also checked out a handful of different options before settling on this supplier - mainly looking for pens that were as close to the Staedtler Pigment Liner. If I'm being honest, I think these might even perform a little better, at least for our use case in this course.
We've also tested their longevity. We've found that if we're reasonably gentle with them, we can get through all of Lesson 1, and halfway through the box challenge. We actually had ScyllaStew test them while recording realtime videos of her working through the lesson work, which you can check out here, along with a variety of reviews of other brands.
Now, I will say this - we're only really in a position to make this an attractive offer for those in the continental United States (where we can offer shipping for free). We do ship internationally, but between the shipping prices and shipping times, it's probably not the best offer you can find - though this may depend. We also straight up can't ship to the UK, thanks to some fairly new restrictions they've put into place relating to their Brexit transition. I know that's a bummer - I'm Canadian myself - but hopefully one day we can expand things more meaningfully to the rest of the world.
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