boxrouser

Ghosted lines: The lines are straight for most of their trajectory, but they start wavering at the end. Try just following the path you ghosted with confidence instead of course correcting. at most lift your pen early.

Ghosted planes: Your lines didn't lose quality; you did a good job finding the center.

Rough perspective: Take your time to make the sure the rectangles you planned are parallel to the borders before drawing the lines, nothing wrong with adding more points. Even if you make mistakes, you should still continue with the exercise, you will learn more that way, not to mention the fact that your real drawing will always have mistakes in them. You took your time to aim for the vanishing points. No need for self-critique here, that is up to people like me.

Funnels: You left big spaces between the funnel and the ellipses, try drawing them bigger, it's better than undershooting. The funnels themselves are misaligned, consider using some rounded corner to draw them next time, what matters isn't having a hard exercise, but an effective one. Again, when drawing ellipses just go for what you ghosted, there are some signs of hesitation here and there, such as uneven lines.

Superimposed lines: The page isn't filled. It's completely normal for you to have trouble drawing with your shoulder right now, so space the exercise between sittings. Take your time to position the pen right at the starting point, that will help reduce fraying. There is some wavering, try just following what you ghosted, remember that the time for course correction is already over and all you have to do now is just follow on with confidence.

Superimposed lines: A maioria das linhas retas estão boas, mas boa parte delas (princimpalmente as mais longas) apresentam curvas, que provalvemente indicam que você tentou mudar de direção no meio do caminho ao invés de só seguir com confiança no ghosting. As linhas curvas poderiam ser maiores, o que facilitaria o trabalho do ombro, elas possuem alguns indícios de hesitação, mas no geral estão boas. Tente posicionar a caneta mais próxima do ponto inicial da proxima vez, para diminuir os "fiapos" (fraying).

Ghosted lines: As suas linhas são nível 2, ou seja, são retas, seguem a trajetória certa, mas ainda não acabam exatamente no ponto final. Eu recomendo que você levante a caneta antes de passar do ponto final, é melhor do que ultrapassar.

Ghosted planes: Suas linhas permaneceram retas.

Table of ellipses: Os elipses tem um formato uniforme, eles preenchem o espaço sem deixar brechas significantes.

Ellipses in planes: Os ellipses tocam os quatro lados do plano. Alguns elipses estão levemente ovais, mas a maioria deles foi bem exexecutado.

Funnels: Os elipses estão bem alinhados.

Plotted perspective: Tudo certo, mas considere limitar o hatching somente à parte de frente das caixas.

Rough perspective: Tudo certo.

Rotated boxes: Excelente para o seu nível.

Organic perspective: As caixas são bem variadas em tamanho e rotação, e as linhas paralelas convergem.

It's alright, mistakes happen.

Please, consider taking cleaner pictures next time, that will increase your odds of being critiqued.

Superimposed Lines:

• Fill the page next time.

• There is a lot of fraying. To fix that, take your time to place the pen on the same point before drawing a line.

• Don't train ellipses here.

• The lines are mostly confident.

Ghosted lines:

• You didn't post the pictures for it.

• Did you do it? It's a very important exercise, it shouldn't be skipped.

Ghosted planes:

• You forgot to take a picture of it before adding ellipses.

• The first page could've had more planes.

• Sometimes your lines curve, but other than that, they are confident and straight.

Table of ellipses:

• The ellipses improved at the second page.

• There are too many skinny ellipses, add more variation to their shape.

• Remember to add waves instead only diagonal cross sections.

• Ellipses are smooth but you forgot to draw through them twice on the second page.

Ellipses in planes:

• You strived to make them touch the four edges.

• You drew through them twice.

• Sometimes the ellipses get distorted, probably because you try to course correct them instead of just confidently executing what you ghosted before.

Funnels:

• It's not a very good idea to skip an exercise, specially this early on.

plotted perspective:

• If you decide to do hatching make sure you add it to all boxes on a frame, else it will just make the whole thing more confusing to look at.

• Also, some of the hatching should've been partially covered because it's behind other boxes.

Rough perspective.

• The picture is weird, if you zoom in on it, you can see every line has a grey copy on top of it.

• Read the instructions more carefully next time.

• Take your time to make sure the front and back faces are straight rectangles, they are skewed.

• You didn't plot the lines back to the vanishing point.

• Some lines are wobbly, are you using your shoulders? Take your time, plan your lines and draw them confidently, without second guessing.

Rotated boxes:

• The hatching is supposed to be applied to the outer faces, you applied to the inner ones, which makes the drawing harder to understand.

• Lines still woble.

• The third box from the center converges less than the previous ones, which means they aren't rotated.

Organic Perspectice:

• Boxes are fine, parallel sets of edges converge.

• Lots of wobbling, indicating lack of confidence and/or drawing with the wrists.

Congratulations, your boxes have gotten considerably better! You can move on to lesson 2 now.

Superimpose lines: The lines start mostly at the right point, the lines wobble a bit.

Ghosted lines: Lines are almost level 3, although I'd say the points are too thick.

Ghosted planes: There is more wobbling in here, probably due to lack of confidence.

Table of ellipses: Ellipses fit in the frame, some of them aren't distorted.

Ellipses in planes: You tried to make them touch the for sides. They are mostly even,though sometimes they go a bit oval.

Funnels: You drew through the ellipses. They fit into the funnel.

Plotted Perspective: nothing to complain.

Rough Perspectice: there is a lack of boxes on the frame's corners. Lines are better if compared to the ghosted planes. Boxes could've been bigger.

Organic Perspectice: The boxes have varied lengths. The sets of parallel lines don't converge as they move farther away from the viewer. You did negotatiate corners.

Rotated Boxes: The gaps are consistent enough. The boxes actually rotate, lines have gotten better.

Superimposed lines: The lines waver a bit, specially for the curved lines; sometimes the lines fray at the start.

Ghosted lines: The lines are straight and accturate

Ghosted planes: Lines are clean; you filled the whole page neatly.

Ellipses in planes: Ellipses fit well; sometimes they turn into ovals; you drew through them.

Table of ellipses: Clean ellipses; they fill the table well.

Funnels: Ellipses touch the sides and are alligned;

Plotted perspective: Nothing to complain.

Rough perspective: You followed the guidelines.

Rotated boxes: Very well done.

Organic perspective: varied box sizes, spread all throughout the frame, well done.

Your plants are good, your strokes are clean, your leaves have flow, and you didn't upload the Leaves Exercise.

I think a better question (which I assume is the one you are trying to find an answer to by asking for other's routine) would be what schedule fits you best, which requires that we take the following factors into account:

1 - How much free time do you have available and when?

- By free time I mean the time you are willing to allot to drawing, so assuming you sleep and work  for 17 hours and are very adamant on spending 3 hours with your friends everyday, that leaves it at 4 hours of free time (24 - 17 - 3 = 20).

- Calculate it, even a sloppy estimate will do. If you only have 2 hours on a certain day, you won't be able to draw for three hours.

2 - Are you getting enough rest?

- The exercises aren't nearly as effective when you are fatigued, so try placing them at a time when you will have a fair amount of stamina.

3 - Try doing it at one hour chunks.

- Our brains take a while to fully focus on an activity, and the more focused we are, the more we learn. By timing things this way, you will be getting more for less, it's better to do things really well (one hour) every two days than averagely (think half an hour) every day.

4 - Is your schedule chaotic?

- Are you one of those people who have got a lot of responsibilities spread haphazardly all throughout their day? If so, you probably won't be able to follow a rigid routine (drawing after lunch or 4:00 PM). But this doesn't mean you should give up on planning, try following more general guidelines, such as "draw for as long as can before sleep time".

5 - Keep yourself distraction free.

- Learn to draw is hard, it requires focus. I won't be getting into specifics here, but, to put it in layman's terms, when your mind is split between a lot of things at once, you learn less because the brain substance related to learning (Myelin) gets split between all of them, so instead reinforcing the drawing brain cells, you are reinforcing the politics, funny meme, video game, food and that-really-catchy-song brain cells. Of course, this is just one of the ways lack of focus hijacks your learning.

Bonus - On your willingness to follow the routine:

- Trying to draw after doing something stimulant such as watching TV or going through social media is a really bad idea, you will be very tempted to just procrastinate, specially if you don't have the habit of drawing. So make sure those come *after* the drawing.

- Start small. If you can't handle more than ten minutes of drawing a day, then keep it at that, you will see yourself managing to draw for longer and longer sessions as you get used to it.

- Keep a calendar and draw a really big, red X on the days you follow your drawing routine, this will make you more motivated.

It's perfectly normal to be subpar at texture now, in a way, it's a brand new way of seeing the world that, as Uncomfortable said, requires that we go against habit and pay attention to details that would have been discarded otherwise. What matters is that you try doing things the "right" way even if you know they won't come out pretty. When we strive for beauty in these exercises, we undermine learning by just picking the same old techiques that are guaranteed to look better (for now) rather than the novel methods we are (currently) uncomfortable with.

So yeah, an ugly exercise where you took pains to understand a new concept is better than a pretty one that is just more of the same.

On the first one I wrote:

Left red text: "It's fine to leave some detail to the viewer's imagination (although I certainly exaggerated \[referring to how I hid some of your texture to show my point\])"

    Right Text: "Your texture are good (green). But they often leave little room for the eye to rest (red)"

Second one:

Red text: "I basically took your texture and shortened the shadow at the tips so only the bigger (deeper) creases are shown.

Orange text: Compare with yours, which is cleaner? (referring to the alterations I performed on the botom right texture).