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Thanks for the review!

In the future, when I use boxes to warm up I will keep your method of drawing in mind. Hopefully it will help me overcome my issues with the back corner.

Honestly I didn't draw boxes that large because I was afraid I wasn't going to fit them all in one page. But also I was worried about the lines intercepting the boxes. I wanted to give the lines enough space to see whether or not they were converging properly.

Alright, let's see what we've got here.

Lines:

For the superimposed lines there is nothing really to report. Good job. In the ghosted lines I noticed some arching going on but nothing too bad that can't be quickly corrected in the future. Just be sure to use only your shoulder when drawing your lines.

Ellipses:

I notice that quite a few ellipses are wobbly, but other than that you did a good job keeping them within the boundaries and with minimal overlap between each other. Just remember to be more confident when drawing through your ellipses to reduce the wobble. It's never going to look perfect but that's okay. The point isn't to consciously correct while you are drawing them.

Boxes:

While the rough perspective excercise was... well, rough, you seemed to make great improvement for the rotated boxes, as far as trying to nail down the vanishing points, so that's pretty nice. In the rotated boxes exercise, while the top left boxes got kinda messy, for the most part you actually handled the rotations pretty well. Except for the bottom-rightmost box you actually got all the corner boxes to rotate nicely, which is pretty difficult. And in the organic perspective there's nothing I see here that won't get ironed out during the 250 box challenge.

Lines:

looking good. Maybe some arching here and there but all in all these are pretty nice. I noticed some overshooting and missed marks in the planes as well as some minor wobble. But honestly these are all small errors.

Ellipses:

For the most part these are good but I've noticed that they sometimes go outside the boundaries. Just something to keep an eye out for when you are ghosting the ellipses.

Boxes:

Again, these are really good. One thing though, and this is no big deal, but in the rotated boxes exercise a couple of your corner boxes aren't really rotated all that much. But those ones are the toughest boxes to do in an already tough exercise. You also seem to have the perspective down. Just remember to work on how much you overshoot your lines.

Third review of mine. Let's do it.

Lines:

Good for the most part. Nothing really to report except, for some reason, your lines get more wobbly later on, especially in your boxes. But I'll save that for the section on boxes. Otherwise both the ghosted and superimposed lines look pretty good.

Ellipses:

I notice that quite a few ellipses have wobbly lines, but other than that you did a good job keeping them within their bounds and not having them overlap too much. Just remember to be more confident when drawing through your ellipses to reduce the wobble. It's never going to look perfect but that's okay. The point isn't to consciously "get it right" while you are drawing.

Boxes:

As I stated before the lines in your boxes are wobblier than they are in the actual line assignments. You also repeat lines way more. My guess is that you are too concerned with how the box is going to look rather than focusing on the lines themselves. The only time you really need to make a fuss about how the box looks is when you are making the dots for the endpoints of each line. After that step though you should be able to draw the line itself by muscle memory. I know you can do it because you did just fine with the ghosted line assignment.

In the rotated boxes exercise you did a good job for the most part. Just the four boxes in each corner weren't really rotated. But I don't think that's a big deal though. It's a tough exercise.

This is only my second review but here goes.

Lines:

Your lines start out pretty wobbly, especially with the superimposed assignment, but they get less wobbly in subsequent assignments so that's nice. Even so the wobble is still noticeable later on in the lesson. If I had to guess I would say that your confidence is not all there. Just believe in your arm lol. The more you try to aim the less pretty your line will be. The superimposed curves were pretty frayed at both ends but that improved as well, so good job there. Overall you do a good job at hitting both your starting and end points when you ghost your lines.

Ellipses:

As for your ellipses the main thing that pops out at me is the seeming lack of confidence. You do a pretty good job at keeping the ellipses within their respective bounds for each assignment but most of them are really wobbly. The same thing I said about your lines I will say about the ellipses. Trust your arm. You know the motion and you know what you are trying to do. The only thing wrong is you're trying to aim and correct. It's never going to be perfect, and that's why we draw through them two or three times.

Boxes:

In your box assignments I see a problem arise that I didn't see in the previous ones which is that you start repeating lines. You didn't really do this in prior exercises so this shouldn't be a hard problem to iron out in the future. Other than that the you seem to have a decent grasp on perspective and the rotations are actually pretty good. You did forget to do the shading on the rotated boxes assignment but that's not too big of a deal. Just remember to do it for the 250 box challenge lol.

Overall I'd say you're on the right track with this lesson.

Okay, this is my first critique so here goes.

Lines:

They start off a bit wobbly in the beginning and middle but I noticed substantial improvement as you went on. Even so I get the feeling that you're still not super confident in your lines. There is still some noticeable arching as well, even in the later parts of the lesson. But neither the wobble nor the arching are anything to worry about too much. With more practice you will be able to iron these out. Just remember to use your elbow as little as you possibly can. More shoulder action will take care of both issues.

Ellipses:

As far as accuracy goes these look pretty good. All I can say, though, is that, like with your lines, I am sensing a slight lack of confidence. Here and there I see instances where you have consciously corrected yourself WHILE you are drawing an ellipse. This manifests in a section of the curve that looks like a bump. With more practice in using your shoulder more and simply believing in the movement of your arm, you will see fewer bumps. And, while the ellipses may not be as accurate as you might like at first, the more you practice with this the more accurate you will become on your own.

Boxes:

With the rough perspective exercise you did a pretty good job at keeping the width and length lines looking parallel. Although due to the wobble and arch it can be a tad difficult to tell. But if you fix those issues you'll be better able to gauge how accurate the angle is between two lines.

With the Rotated Boxes exercise, and this might just be a nitpick, it seems that the boxes all the way in the corners aren't rotated much if at all. Just be sure that those boxes are rotated with respect to EVERY adjacent box. Whereas it seems like you rotated the corner boxes with respect to only one adjacent box. But those are the toughest boxes to draw in this already difficult exercise so don't beat yourself up over it.

All in all I would say your biggest hangup is confidence. If you have to, just get an empty page and draw a crap ton of lines and ellipses until you are somewhat comfortable with the motions. Something I never thought about that much prior to starting DaB is the "physical" element to drawing. You're exercising your muscle memory like you would in playing an instrument.

You seem to already have a solid grasp of perspective and of where lines SHOULD go, so that's good.

Overall, I'd say you're ready for the 250 box challenge.

Sorry for late reply. I appreciate the advice, however I actually don't agree with you with regards to my lines. It probably has to do with the photo quality, but idk. I'm just looking at my lines and most of them seem pretty wavy to me.

I think your stuff looks way better, tbh. I'm on the 250 box challenge and I've gotten at least two boxes with diverging lines and a bunch with lines that cross very quickly so idk what's going on there. Whereas yours look really good.

There's so many people in this community who seem to naturally grasp these exercises but my homework kinda looks like crap lol.

I don't know what I'm doing here.