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Thanks for your time and critique, will look into these issues!

Hi MDBOLA, congrats on finishing lesson 1! Let's see those exercises.

Your lines are good! You need a lot of practice but you get better from one page to the other so keep it up.

Your ellipses are also good, some minor errors and I see sometimes you wobble around the ellipse, remember to stay confident and believe in your shoulder, don't get caught in wobbly lines because you want to be accurate, your goal is to build confidence and muscle memory.

For the boxes, you had some issues as you said. I see in rough perspective your lines tend to wobble a bit, make sure you are always drawing in your comfy way (which most of the time is 45 degrees towards dominant hand), because that may be an issue with curving or wobbly lines. Also don't worry about not always using the shoulder pivot, that comes with time, but remember to always correct it when you see yourself sliding towards the elbow, in no time you will stop changing pivot!

Your rotated boxes and organic perspective are very good, and in lesson 1 you showed a good perspective understanding, good job!

Your exercises are mostly good and you absorbed the basic concepts very well, remember to always practice those ellipses and lines in your warmups, to build confidence. I'll give you a pass on the lesson and point you towards the 250 boxes!

Hi afternoonsun, congrats on finishing lesson 1! Let's see those exercises.

Your lines are very good! You seem to have understood to draw them with confidence, keep it up. Be sure to use the shoulder pivot when tracing them as i see some slight curvature in some of these lines.

Your ellipses are also very good, they are confident and most of the time accurate, keep practicing those.

As for the boxes, this is where you had the most difficulty it seems. From these exercises what i see the most is that you sometimes tend to let go of your confidence in drawing lines for the boxes. Remember to try and always ghost those lines and keep your usual focus up, don't let rush or carelessness get in you. Your rotated boxes is pretty good for a beginner, don't worry about it, you have lots of time to improve, try and come back to it once you will have more experience! Also good job on the organic perspective, pretty good all around.

So, you definitely understood the concepts of lesson 1, you followed the instructions and your exercises are good.

The only things you seem to struggle a bit is line tracing while constructing boxes and all around perspective understanding. And these are perfectly fine to struggle with in the beginning, so I think you should jump to the 250 boxes challenge and get some practice down! Suggestion: practice some rough perspective and funnels in your warmups, they will surely help you.

That's a pretty cool concept.

Nice sketch also!

Hi Fynnfluff, congrats on finishing lesson 1! Let's get to these exercises.

LINES

Your lines are by the book, good job!

ELLIPSES

Very good here too, but sometimes you tend to be a bit timid with your ellipses and they come out a bit wobbly, never hesitate and don't be scared of an inaccurate ellipse, it happens and it lets you learn faster than drawing it carefully. Also watch out in your funnels, you tend to change the degree of the ellipses a bit, but nothing that practice won't solve.

BOXES

Your exercises are all good, but I see some lack of confidence in some of these lines, remember that even in these exercises, and all the next ones, you should try and ghost every line, use your shoulder and make the line as confident as you can, don't get carried away by rush, always be focused when tracing your lines. I'm especially amazed by your rotated boxes, you did an outstanding job! It is very unlikely for a student to get such a good understanding of perspective at lesson 1, keep it up! Your organic boxes also are good, just keep in mind to focus on the confidence of your lines.

You understood the concepts of lesson 1 pretty well, and you are more than ready to tackle the 250 boxes challenge, a suggestion: try to practice your confidence with drawing ellipses and boxes in your warmups! I'll mark this lesson as complete.

Hi Devtathan, congrats on finishing lesson 1! Let's get to these exercises right away.

LINES Your lines are very good! You followed the instructions carefully and the results are obvious.

ELLIPSES You understood this part of the lesson, you draw your ellipses confidently and without hesitations, but sometimes they don't touch the borders so they appear a bit float, try to also look for that since you already have the confidence to draw them straight. Your ellipses in plains are mostly good, but some of them seem to have been traced multiple times over: try not to draw many times an ellipses, max 2-3 times, even if it comes out bad, mistakes happen and we can learn from them! Funnels look really good.

BOXES Your boxes are good, you understand their construction and the rough perspective turned out fairly ok. The rotated boxes is a difficult exercise but you did very good! There surely is some perspective and line mistakes here or there but nothing major, with some practice you got this.

You seem to have gained a good understanding of the concept of lesson 1, and your drawings are turning out very promising, thus you should proceed to the 250 boxes challenge and I'll mark this lesson as complete.

Thanks! I'll look into these issues you mentioned, you've been very helpful. Better start with these gazillion boxes now hah.

Hi, I will give you feedback on these based on the official lesson 1 critique guide https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ

****Lines

Your superimposed lines are a bit wobbly, you need to be more confident and draw them faster, be sure to also use your shoulder while drawing them.

Your ghosting lines exercise is missing.

The ghosting planes are again a bit wobbly but better than the lines, be sure to keep the confidence ahead of the accuracy in your priorities. Also one of them seems corrected with white paint, embrace your mistakes and use them as learning opportunities, there is no need to cover them.

****Ellipses

The ellipses tables are mostly straight and they hit the boundaries but you seem to slow down sometimes for the sake of accuracy.

The ellipses in planes are pretty good.

Ellipses in funnels look good, but some of them are wobbly, always draw them with confidence even if they are not precise.

****Boxes

First one ok.

Rough perspective is ok.

In the rotated boxes you made this error:

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Mistake: Not keeping things together

Keeping your gaps narrow and consistent is critical to being able to use neighbouring forms as effectively as possible to infer information about space.

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and thus the lines you made are not very accurate and they look a bit messy. Don't worry too much about it for now, think about it when you will try the exercise again when you have a bit more practice under your hand.

Some minor perspective errors in organic perspective, you'll improve them in the 250 boxes challenge.

Hi, I will give you feedback on these based on the official lesson 1 critique guide https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ

Lines

Your superimposed lines are good, you have carefully put your pen at the start and confidently ran through the line.

Your ghosting lines are good all around, but sometimes you tend to curve them, that could mean you don't use your shoulder while drawing lines or that you just have a tendency to curve them. If the latter is the case, then you should try slightly arching them in the opposite direction consciously, with time and practice you'll instinctively make a straight line.

The ghosting planes are good and by the book.

Ellipses

The ellipses tables are good, you are confident and you don't draw over them too many times, mostly you make them touch each other and the boundaries.

The same for the ellipses in planes.

Ellipses in funnels look good, you cut them in half at the minor axis correctly and they stick to the boundaries.

Boxes

First one good.

Rough perspective is good but some of those box lines are a bit timid and curved at times, try to ghost all of the lines you make.

The rotating boxes one is okish, the back part of the boxes is difficult to see and not really aligned with the front part and the lines are also here a bit imprecise, but the exercise is very hard so don't worry, try to come back to it when you will have a bit more of experience to it and you will have surely improved.

Some minor perspective errors in organic perspective, don't worry you'll improve them in the 250 boxes challenge.