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Thanks for this great detailed and explanatory review, I'll work on it!

First, what pen did you use? Don't use a pencil, but a fineliner.

Second, and that's the logical consequence of the first point, don't draw over your straight lines. In exercises like perspective, and organic perspective, only draw each line once. That's the main reason why a fineliner is recommended. Take your time to draw The perfect line, with the ghosted method, but don't go over and over until you find the good one.

Third, draw trough your ellipses. In Table of ellipses, you should always pass 2 or 3 times on them.

I'll mark lesson as complete, but take your time to do some of these exercises, applying the advices we give.

The depth and compression of your arrows is good, but don't shade them randomly: always shade in the center of the fold.

Pretty good organic shapes, don't hesitate to make bigger ones, you'll need it for next lessons.

Great texture analysis, you perfectly understood the cast shadow concept.

In the same way, texture dissection is almost perfect.

Generally, the forms intersection is good, but sometimes your pyramids seems to have a strange foreshooting.

Organic intersection is really good too, but don't go for too longs shapes, like on page 2. Nice shadows too.

So, really good work!

Organic arrows: they're a little short, but that's no big deal. Also, I think you didn't understood the meaning of the shadow: the shadow is supposed to be behind the fold, look at examples here.

Organic shapes are good, but be sure they've got the same thickness on the whole long.

Texture analysis: you were supposed to start with crumbled paper, take your time to read the instructions! The two first are good, and the third one would be great if you didn't put vertical lines, which didn't correspond to any cast shadows. Keep in mind not to apply a repetitive pattern of what you think it is, but what you see, in this cas more like little bumps. Hatching is not what it's asked for.

Dissection: textures are mostly good, but don't forgot to wrap your textures around the form it suits (like your leaf texture for example). Also, your sausages in this exercise are really worse than from the past one. Keep the lines flowing, and make a consistent, same thickness sausage.

Your organic intersection is pretty good. However, don't overshadow: don't forgot that casts shadows are the ones your supposed to focus the most on. So, make them wrap the form who's above, but don't make to much.

For your forms intersection, don't make small groups of forms. Also, I suggest you to be more vigilant to the perspective of your basic 3D shapes, like boxes. Some of them are strange and not boxy.

So, it's a good job, but with some small mistakes which can easily be fixed.

(First, I don't know if it's voluntary, but 1 page doesn't mean 1 sheet of paper, but only 1 side. However, doing these exercises twice can't hurt you)

You seems to struggle with the superimposed lines. Try to make way smaller lines, and then increase the size step by step. You're fraying to much at the end ; in fact, that's not such a big deal, but don't make the task too much harder, otherwise you won't progress.

Nice ghosted lines, try to practice smaller ones too.

Good ghosted plans, don't have much to say about.

Table of ellipses: since you've done it 4 times, we can see the progress. At first your ellipses didn't fit in the cases, but you've correct this mistake.

Plotted perspective is good.

Rough perspective: really good, your freehand lines will get better with experiment.

Great rotated boxes, the result is really nice on both drawings.

Organic perspective: be sure to keep your boxes on the line, and rotate them a little bit more, but that's good. Your boxes aren't perfect, so the 250 boxes challenge will help you improve a lot.

Good arrows, but stick to the exercise: don't make them turn around themself every time. Also, keep your curves flowing, it looks a little bit "blocky" sometimes.

Great organics forms, keep them thick everywhere but that's good job.

Very nice texture analysis, you really understood the "cast shadow" concept.

For the texture dissection exercise, sometimes your textures seems flat (I'm thinking of the marble, paper, etc). Don't hesitate to break the silhouette, especially for stuff like feathers.

The forms intersections are great, but don't forget to drawing through ellipses when you draw a sphere.

Finally, your organic intersection is very good, and the shadows are mastered.

So, really good job generally, all the concepts of the lesson are understood and applied!

Your organic arrows are good, you've understood the meaning of the exercise and you've correctly applied it.

Generally, your organics forms are good, but don't forget to keep your sausages simple. Don't go for a too much complicated one, and always keep the side balls to the same size.

Texture analysis: you seems to struggle a lot, but you always have to FOCUS ON THE SHADOWS. I know you kinda try, seeing you rope comment, but you're always drawing the outline. Furthermore, the "steel" material isn't really adapted to this kind of drawing, you'd better go to something simpler, where the shadows are more visible.

Texture dissection: a little better than texture analysis, but you're still drawing the outlines. It's hard to draw shadows, but that's the whole point of this exercise. And brick isn't a texture, it's a pattern (it was said in one of the explicatives videos).

Forms intersection: good job, the result shows that you seems to understand the intersection part. Your boxes could be a little bit more rotated, but that's fine.

Organic intersection: your forms are supposed to be subjected to gravity, and to be more superposed. Don't make them fly, don't make them "hard". Make them flow, and lean on each others.

First, don't worry. Drawing with your shoulder is a very hard when you're not used to it. You'll certainly struggle a lot with this technique.

The good news is that you'll get better by practicing, so don't give up and keep drawing with your shoulder. If you draw ellipses with your shoulder 15 mins everyday, it will get easier and easier.

And another important point: don't forget that drawing with your shoulder is a great technique for big, flowing curves, but it's absolutely normal to draw small ellipses with your wrist. The point is to be able to draw with both your shoulder AND your wrist, and use one or the other technique depending of the situation.

So, keep drawing big ellipses with your shoulder, I'm sure they'll get better, but use your wrist to draw small ones.

Your lines are nice and straight, good job.

Your ellipses were a little bit out of bounce at first, but you've improved while doing these exercises, so keep focusing on putting your ellipses right inside of the box.

For boxes, you have a room for improvement, but you've understood the "when-it-gets-farer-it-get-smaller" technique, and it's a good point. You'll improve a lot your boxes construction by making the 250 boxes challenge.

Overall, this seems to be a pretty good job. You really passed every homework with success, and the progression you made is clearly noticeable. I'll do my best to find mistakes, but you can be proud.

Superimposed lines: the first page is fraying a lot on the end, but the second one is perfect, we can see the huge progress. You can try to do more complex curves.

Ghosted lines: good, you'll perfect them with practice.

Ghosted planes: unfortunately you didn't take the picture before drawing ellipses, but that's fine. Not much to say neither, it's very good.

Table of ellipses: very nice. Once again, you'll get this lines closer only by practicing, but it's a good start.

Ellipses in planes: sometimes you don't touch every border, but you've seen your mistakes, which is great. You already see your ellipses being better and lines get closer than the last exercise.

Funnels: be careful, sometimes the end of the line of your ellipse is going away, which breaks the round shape. Try to loop the loop and stay on the line, even at the end. Otherwise it's great.

Plotted perspective: good, not much to say about it since it's a kind of discovery exercise.

Rough perspective: the perspective itself seems great, especially for a first try. You can progress a little by making your lines more perpendicular/parallel to the horizon, and make them less "wobbly". Don't need to do this exercise again particularly for that, your lines will get naturally smoother and you've understand the whole purpose of this exercise.

Rotated boxes: that's really good, even if this exercise was hard, you can be proud.

Organic perspective: nice understanding of the pressure, by making the line thiner when it's far-away from the viewer. Your boxes could be "cleaner", sometimes the lines don't regroup in 1 single point. Also, you don't have to cross the wrong lines, it's normal to make mistakes, and you don't have to signal it.

In conclusion, it's a very good job, you've totally understood what you were expect to do. Congratulations!