Hey, thank you for your review! It's funny how I always think my work is shitty but when someone else sees it I can see that it's not so bad hahah
I'm half way done with the 250 box challenge and really trying to improve the straightness of my lines there, and also spending some more time tackling this on my warm ups.
Again, thank you for your words!
Super imposed lines
Even though there are some fraying on the end of the lines, the strokes are good and confident, well done! Still, a small number of them (two or three) could be more precise. But don't worry, this comes with practice. For now just keep this exercise in your warm up routine and you'll see the progress. Also, try to experiment with different angles and velocities to find out what works better for you.
Ghosted lines
Those very impressive! You achieved a good precision on then and there are no visible arching. If I have to point something to improve here it would be the quality of the line, regarding their variable thickness, but really, they're good enough.
Ghosted planes
As in the ghosted lines, here you also shown quite a good precision with your lines, even when doing the crossing ones. There are some almost unnoticeable arching on the lines, specially on the ends of them, but again, this is not something to worry about now. Just keep drawing from your shoulder and doing your warm ups and this will improve along the time.
Tables of ellipses
Ok, here you got the idea of limiting the ellipses by touching them on theirselves and on outter lines of the table, but some of them looks a little rushed. I would say that you should spend a little more time on ghosting them before drawing to achieve more precision. And also, you should pay attention to the symmetry of both minor and major axes. Don't rush, find a good balance between precision and speed here. Anyway, I think this is good enough to be marked as completed, but keep in mind those points I mentioned when further practicing your ellipses.
Ellipses on planes
As I mentioned before, your planes are almost flawless, but your ellipses improve a bit. Even though here they're better than in the Table of ellipses exercise, you could still put more time on ghosting them. Though, you made a good job on making them touch the plane borders.
Funnels
I can see your improvement here. Even though there are still some issues on symmetry of axes, they are much more even and symmetric now. But remember, for this exercise you should do two passes on the ellipses, and for some it seems that you did only one. Keep doing the good work and keep practicing!
Plotted perspective
Not much to talk about this, since this is pretty straight forward and there's no margin for miss-interpretation. You did a good job here, and also put the horizon lines on different levels. Well done! To improve, I would say that you could work on the line weights to suggest more depth, but don't worry, this wasn't the point of this exercise.
Rough perspective
Here we have some wobbly lines, but dont worry, this mistake is common on this exercise. You managed to make the horizontal parallel to the horizon and the verticals perpendicular to them, good!
But, unfortunately the exercise was not executed correctly. When extending the lines (in blue) they shouldn't follow the trajectory directly towards the vanishing point, but instead follow the trajectory that the box lines (in black) suggest. This way, you can see when you estimate correctly the angles to make the lines converge to the vanishing point. I'll mark this as complete, but please, take a look on the exercise explanation and try it again before proceeding to the 250 box challenge, since this concept is very important there.
Rotated boxes
This is well done! You did a good job on line weights and again on the precision of the lines towards the boxes vertexes. To improve, you should notice that the boxes are not evenly spaced, which could make this exercise more difficult to execute, but this is a minor flaw, since they're looking good and well rotated. Other minor issue: you forgot one box on each quadrant corner! But don't worry, it seems well executed, no need to do it again.
Organic perspective
Again, you had shown here your strength: precision on the lines, keep doing the good work! I can see some wobbly lines, but not so many. Something to pay attention: the lines should converge towards the box's vanishing points, and some of them are diverging. No problem though, but keep this concept when start to tackle the 250 box challenge.
To conclude, you did a good work, and I'm impressed with your precision on straight lines! But keep in mind the points I made and keep practicing!
Next Steps:
As I pointed, before proceeding to the 250 box challenge, you should redo the Rough perspective exercise, to practice a little bit more this concept of lines converging towards the vanishing point (in a less complex scenario, let's say).
Hey, thanks for you review!
I'm struggling with those wobbling lines, but I'm trying to solve this with more warm up and experimenting with different angles, grips and velocities when making the marks.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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