Hey there Chy, congratulations on your submission of Lesson 1! My name is Mickey and I'll be providing your critique this round. Let's get to it!
Your superimposed lines exercise was completed to satisfaction, great job including a varied array of line lengths and curves.
Revision needed: Your Imgur link is missing your Ghosted Lines exercise.
Good job on your ghosted planes and ellipses in planes, it's clear that each stroke has been executed with confidence and care, and the ellipses have been drawn through and fit within the bounds of the plane.
Your table of ellipses includes a variety of ellipse degrees and angles, the space was used well and your ellipses are drawn through. Well done.
Your funnels exercise is similarly well-executed. Great job going the extra mile and varying the degree of your ellipses to achieve that "expanding" effect.
Your plotted perspective exercise is also satisfactory. Each box traces back to its appropriate vanishing points, and the vertical edges are mostly parallel and drawn to the appropriate corners. A tip: as long as you draw your frame with care, it can be used to make consistent parallel lines for your exercise, like so.
Your rough perspective exercise is very clean, each front and rear plane is believably parallel in space and a good attempt was made to extend each back toward the vanishing point.
Rotated boxes is an (in)famously challenging piece of homework, and it looks like you've properly grasped the concepts of edge alignment, rotation, and mirroring your boxes.
For your organic perspective exercise, I see a great variety in Y shapes and sizes; this method of freeform drawing will serve you well in the box challenge. I also see that you tried drawing some boxes much larger (closer to the viewer) and some much smaller (farther) -- very nice! Implying depth through size is a foundational perspective trick.
You're almost there! I just need to see your ghosted lines before we can take the next step. You have revisions pending, don't move on just yet!
Next Steps:
Submit one page of the Ghosted Lines exercise.
Apologies! Didn't realize I missed ghosted lines. I've attached that exercise to the imgur link.
Thanks! Your ghosted lines look fine, seems that you're able to meet your endpoints with a solid combination of confidence with accuracy.
You're good to go, congratulations on completing Lesson 1! If you haven't seen it already, here's a great site for choosing a warmup for future homework sessions ( https://mark-gerarts.github.io/draw-a-card/ ). Onward!
Next Steps:
Proceed to the 250 Box Challenge.
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.
On the flipside, they tend to be on the cheaper side of things, so if you're just getting started (beginners tend to have poor pressure control), you're probably going to destroy a few pens - going cheaper in that case is not a bad idea.
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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