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Your exercises look great. It seems like you are focusing a lot on following the instructions. Your lines are nice and clean, and your ellipses are smooth. One thing I would recommend for the future is to avoid going back over and adjusting your lines after you've drawn them, as you've done in the rough perspective and rotated boxes exercises.

Your exercises look pretty good, but you are missing quite a few of them. You should have two pages of ghosted planes, two pages of rough perspective (each with three panels), a full page (three panels) of plotted perspective, two full pages (three panels) of organic perspective, and you should have filled in your ghosted planes with ellipses. Also, it appears that you used a ruler for the rotated boxes, which should have been done freehand.

Other than those things, your rough perspective could use some work. Definitely go back to that exercise and finish out two pages. Try to be as deliberate as you can with where you place each part of your boxes. If you are having trouble understanding the perspective, you should go back over the lesson again or ask for help. Your organic perspective looks very rushed. Take your time when you finish these exercises, even if you feel like you don't understand it.

Your ghosted planes, ghosted lines, and superimposed lines are good. Your ellipses exercises look good. Try one last ellipse exercise with the ellipses in planes exercise.

Thank you so much. I appreciate your very comprehensive and detailed feedback!

In addition to what others have said, my guess would be that you are more afraid of missing the mark with the lines where you have to be more precise. Therefore, you are taking it more carefully by resorting back to what you would naturally do in that situation. I'd recommend trying one box where you are extra conservative. Notice how you use your arm. Then, try drawing a box where you go full confidence, and don't worry about the lines working perfectly. Feel the difference between those two boxes. You could even try this a few times to get a really good idea. Once you can see the difference, try to find the most practical middle ground that you can muster. I have nothing to back this; it's just an idea. Let me know how it goes.

Hey, I just noticed your post by coincidence and it really stood out to me. I think it is super inspiring that you are putting so much effort into trying drawabox despite your physical limitations. I'm no expert, so take my advice with a grain of salt. However, I do believe that if you are pushing yourself this much to follow the rules given by uncomfortable, it may be beyond what is necessary. Since it seems you are willing to put in the time, I would experiment with the best compromise that you can find, and don't be afraid to bend the rules to work in your favor. After all, the idea of drawing from your shoulder comes from an assumption that drawing from your shoulder IS the most effective way to achieve smooth lines for the majority of people. If this isn't the case for you, I urge you to find some way to achieve as smooth a line as possible without pushing yourself to the extreme. This may involve resting your elbow, or even drawing from your elbow if necessary. I'm getting quite redundant, but I hope you understand my point. I'd love to talk with you more about what strategies you've tried and what works/ doesn't.