Hello and good job on finishing lesson 1. Don't worry about getting frustrated on some of the exercises, I just completed lesson 1 myself, and understand how it feels. Anyways, enough chat your here because you want a critique.
Lines: For your lines exercises you tend to leave a lot of empty space on the page. This is especially evident for the ghosted planes exercise. I'd recommend looking at the example homework on the ghosted planes page of the drawabox website. You seem to understand that the prioritization of Drawabox is flow over accuracy and precision, now I'd recommend that you work on lifting your pen once your finished with your lines, you tend to overshoot quite a bit across your exercises.
Ellipses: Your ellipses tend to float a little bit in the frames you set up for them. For the table of ellipses exercise try fitting your ellipses snugly together, and for your ellipses in planes, try aiming for an ellipse that take up the whole frame. Good job on making sure that your ellipses are parallel to the minor axis in your funnels.
Boxes: For the plotted pespective exercise, don't use squiggles for the shading of a face, instead use your straightedge to shade using evenly spaced parallel lines. For your rough perspective exercise You are supposed you chart your lines to the horizon line, you won't learn much by extending lines to random places. Also you don't need to add a trapezoidal prism, stick to the exercise as it's assigned.
Next Steps:
I think that you should redo the table of ellipses and plotted perspective exercises before moving on to the 250 box challenge. I'd recommend rewatching the video and reading through the assignments for a refresher before starting. I think that it should be fairly easy for you to improve.
You're right about the ellipses. I didn't notice until you pointed it out that they floated. will go back to that one.
For the rough perspective portion, do you have a suggestion on how to improve? I'll be going back to it, but its also not as if I randomly guessed where they would go. I tried to place my lines where I thought they will align with the vanishing point, and only afterwards that I saw the distance of how far off I was.
Thank you for your time.
It's okay that your lines don't go back exactly to the vanishing point, The issue is in the lines that you made with a blue pen. You need to use a straightedge, and plot those lines to the horizontal line in the middle of the screen instead of stopping before or after, That way you can see how close you got to the vanishing point along the horizon line.
I hope that helps.
Ahhh. I get what you mean.
Yeah, that helps.
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