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Lines: Nice and confident keep up with the good work!

Elipses: Nice and confident as well but elipses only must be drawn through ellipses 2 to 3 times, (2 times preferably) unlike the elipses that you drew which are very thick.

Boxes: On your rotated boxes, corners between boxes must be kept close, but everything else is good.

Do the ghosted plane exercise as practice and warmup, also the elipses should be drawn through 2 to 3 times.

These are good enough to mark as complete, good luck on 250 boxes!

Lines: Nice, smooth and confident, though it may arc but those could be fixed by arcing in the opposite direction.

Elipses: Kind of wobbly and messy, I think you are worried about the accuracy of the elipses, a trick to that is to ghost slowly to make sure your brain knows what elipse to draw, then when executing, do it swiftly, dont think about executing it, just execute it, nice, fast and confident

Boxes: The lines on the boxes are a tad wobbly but for everything else its good.

I recommend you do elipses in planes exersise as warmup.

Im marking this lesson complete, good luck on 250 boxes!

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Hello Daijoum, congrats on finishing lesson one! I'll be looking over your submission.

Starting with your lines, you did a pretty good job here. Especially with the superimposed lines exercise, it seems that you were prioritizing confidence as much as you could. However your lines tend to get pretty wobbly with the ghosted planes/lines exercises. This implies that you were probably focusing too hard on accuracy and therefore were a bit hesitant while putting down your lines. Always remember that, especially for this lesson, confidence should always be your main goal. If you do your best to draw confidently, your lines are bound to get more accurate with time as well. This won't happen overnight though, so don't get frustrated if you aren't happy with your results now. Just keep practicing and with time, I'm sure you'll give rulers a run for their money :) Also, you can take a look at this comment by Uncomfortable if you wish to read more about ghosting and hesitation.

Your ellipses look pretty good! You generally drew confidently and you didn't forget to draw through them. You did a good job with keeping your ellipses within their bounds as well. You have a couple of slightly deformed ellipses but I'm sure your ellipses will get cleaner as you keep practicing. There are a couple of misaligned ellipses in the funnels exercise but that's not a big deal for now.

You did a really good job with your perspective exercises. Also your line quality seems to have improved in the rough perspective exercise as well which is great.

On the rotated boxes exercise, you did a good job with keeping your boxes close and using the neighboring edges to construct the next box. Using hatching definitely would've helped make the image more readable though. Also I'm seeing that you occasionally drew over your lines to correct them. Remember that trying to correct your lines with ink will only shift the viewers attention to your mistakes.

Lastly, on organic perspective, you did a pretty solid job as well. You have some diverging lines but you'll have a lot of time to work on that during the 250 Boxes Challenge.

I don't think I have anything else to add! Overall, you did great with this lesson, congratulations! I'm going to mark this lesson as complete so here are some helpful links for the box challenge: an alternate method for placing the inner corner, different orientations of boxes. That last link is for inspiration only, make sure to draw from your imagination.

Good luck!

Hi Loreckei!

You might recognize me as bolakecil in Discord server, but congratulations on finishing lesson 1! You got through it. :)

Here are some points worth noting

1.Superimposed Lines: Great effort! Fraying only happens on one end. Lots of straight lines and curvy lines variations as well.

2.Ghosted Lines: Nice work! Carefully and fluently plotted dots and lines.

3.Ghosted Planes: Neat and solid work, confident and accurate lines. Can't ask for more.

4.Ghosted Ellipses: Some overshoot and undershoot ellipses here and there, but confident and nice ellipses!

5.Tables of Ellipses: Accuracy increases greatly while maintaining confidence, amazing work.

6.Funnels: Nice! Ellipses follow the direction of the minor axis, and I can see that you're gradually increasing the degree as the ellipses go further.

7.Plotted Perspective: Nothing much to say, neat one.

8.Rough Perspective: Pretty much parallel and perpendicular X and Y axis consecutively, and progress is definitely seen throughout the exercise! Well done.

9.Rotated Boxes: You really nailed this beast! Boxes rotated accordingly, excellent proportions. Incredibly done.

10.Organic Perspective: Great and solid work! You made various directions of boxes, gradually increasing size as well. Good job.

Cheers!

Hi! First of all I'm at the same page as you, I started a year ago but dropped and came back recently, it's inspiring to see someone with similar experience! Hope you keep getting better and get the most important part, fun in the process!

• I can see you already have experience, your superimposed and ghosted lines exercises shows your lines are confident and I liked the fact that you practiced a lot the curved ones.

• Your planes are really good and confident too, but remember to draw through the ellipses 2 to 3 times.

• Your boxes in general are good, and the rotated boxes exercise is awesome, congrats.

I guess the next step will be easy for you, since you already have a confident line.

Hi there!

First of all, congratulations for finishing lesson 1! No matter how satisfied or not you are with the results, but you manage to get through this lesson!

Here are some points worth noting:

1. Superimposed Lines: Good job! You took your time to place the pen, fraying only happens on one edge. Arcings are completely normal! You also prioritized fluidity over accuracy.

2. Ghosted Lines: Great job on this one too! Plotted dots and confident lines.

3. Ghosted Planes: Well done! Pretty much as stated in Ghosted Lines.

4. Ghosted Ellipses: Nicely done! You redraw them 2 - 3 times, a bit of undershoot ellipses but they are totally understandable.

5. Tables of Ellipses: Nice progress shown here. Ellipses are tightly placed, fitting the frames. However, I want to point out that it seems after the first page, you start to draw through the ellipses only once. Remember that it should be redrawn 2 - 3 times.

6. Funnels: Not much to say, neat and nice! Some ellipses are a bit of their minor axis, otherwise good one!

7. Plotted Perspective: Neat and solid work.

8. Rough Perspective: It seems that you probably rushed some of your boxes, making them look distorted. Remember to take your time! Take as much time as you need to plot where the next dot should be in order to get the boxes as precise as possible.

9. Rotated Boxes: Overall, good job! You managed to draw the boxes according to their rotation directions. Though I spotted that you probably forgot to extend the box on the very top left, but it's totally okay!

10. Organic Perspective: I'd say they are neatly done. Good job you did there, although again, take your time to plot the boxes.

Overall, solid work! Remember to take your time in drawing every single line, no rush needed!

I took a look at your submission and described what stood out to me most. I'm currently working on Lesson 4 myself.

The primary thing for you to focus on is confidence and smoothness in your lines. It's a core concept that will be used in all future lessons. Wobbly lines are present throughout your submission and it's important that you have a more firm grasp on the concept of smooth lines before moving on. Here is a link to the relevant section on the lesson page. You don't have to be perfect at it at this stage; you'll be working on improving this area as well as things like line accuracy throughout the course. Consider the three levels of this exercise. Your ghosted lines page is sparse and I think the concept is important enough to warrant another attempt. Here's a picture I took from a section of one of my warmups. You don't have to make your attempts this close together or all horizontal like this, I just wanted to give an example from someone who has progressed through the lessons a bit even if I'm still improving my own markmaking still.

Your funnels exercise suffered as a result of wobbling as well. It will be more productive to try constructing ellipses around solid foundational lines. Review this step. There's also a consistent amount of tilting to many groups of ellipses. Establish your axis lines with a ruler, and do your best to line up the ellipses with them. Here's a link to the alignment section of the exercise.

I'm requesting revisions for your submission. Read through the relevant pages and/or watch the videos for the listed exercises and give them another attempt.

Very nicely done. To be honest there isn't much to be said in most of the exercises except for the rotated boxes. You seem to have understood what is it that your aiming for here and there's a fair amount of improvement to support this.Anyway, here's your critique:

Superimposed Lines: A nice attempt I must say. Good variation in lines, no fraying on the left end and the wobble's reduced significantly by the end of the exercise.

Ghosted Lines/Planes: Pretty well done for a first attempt. There's arcing in the ghosted lines exercise which reduced considerably by the end of the planes.One of the main things that causes that arcing is you not choosing the best angle of approach. If the direction of the line your hand finds comfortable (and what it subconsciously ends up drawing) does not line up with the intended goal, your brain somehow course corrects and you have a curved line as a result. Its that or you have a natural tendency to draw a slight curve. Judging by the line work in the boxes, I can say that this is either isn't the case for you or you've already corrected that tendency. So if you find yourself drawing curved lines again, remember to chose a good angle of approach.

Ellipses: Pretty good for the most part, You had pretty smooth ellipses from the get go, It just looks like you need to work on the accuracy which seems to have gotte much better in funnels. Just keep practicing ghosting ellipses and lines regularly, you'll improve.

Boxes: Apart from the rotated boxes, all your boxes seem okay. You had a bit of wobble in the rough perspective but that seems to have been fixed by the time you reach the organic perspective. Remember to ghost each line of the box carefully to prevent this from happening. Drawing a box is 12 tasks (12 individual lines) and not just one. The convergence will improve with the 250 box challenge. The organic perspective is okay too. The vanishing points seem correctly placed . One thing I have to say is that you have a tendency to draw over lines to correct mistakes. Dont do that. Especially in drawabox. Don't try to correct a mistake once its done, 9 times out of 10 it just looks worse and you don't even learn much from it. In the rotated boxes, you have a few things to do. The middle box in the central row and central column is not rotated. The worst thing however is that you havent really used the edges of the boxes of the central row and column as reference for drawing the remaining boxes either, they seem arbitrarily placed just to replicate the ones that should have been there if the boxes of the central row and column were properly rotated. This gives it those uneven spacing and the boxes not really fitting together. Repeat this one page of the rotated boxes, you'll be able to do it just keep it in mind to base the edges of the new boxes from the existing neighboring ones. Try looking at Uncomfortable's example as a reference to get the rotations of the boxes of the central row and column correct.

First off, congrats on making 250 boxes! You can be proud for the rest of your life. The boxes look correct, but few things stand out to me:

1. Allow yourself to make mistakes! Sometimes when your line misses, you do another one. Please don't do that in next lessons, confident skill is made upon foundation of confident faliure. I see that your lines really improved with the amount of boxes you made, but still you should prioritize confidence over accuracy.

2. Most of your boxes have very dramatic perspective (perspective points are not far away, that they extend way over the paper you draw on). It is not mistake, dramatic perspecitve helps with doing good forshadowing, but remember that most of the boxes you make will be not as dramatic (the points will go far and beyond, compared to being pretty much next to the box).

Overall amazing job, I like the hatching you made, just remember what I talked about above and you can go to lesson 2. :)