Hello! I'm Meap and I hope my feedback will be helpful to you :3. Overall, I think you did great.
Lines
1. Superimposed Lines
• Lines are quite consistent, not wobbly, and only frays at the far end (which is normal at this stage so no worries). This can be improved with enough practice as warm-up exercises in the future. After you have nailed the first two level for your lines, a small tip that can help you improve the accuracy (can be applied for all the lines you make in the future): First, take as much time and attempts needed for your ghosting method. Next, when you're confident enough to execute the line, focus your eyes on the end point and shoot your line instead of tracing your eyes along with the pen. This is just a personal tip so you can try to see if it works for you as well.
• Your longer lines do have tendencies of arcing but not that noticeable. If you're confident that you had drawn from the shoulder but the problem still persists, you can try this Tip from the lesson by consciously arcing your line slightly in the opposite direction.
2. Ghosted Lines
• The ink distribution on some of your longer lines seems uneven and getting lighter when reaching the end. I assume you're focusing too much on the speed in an attempt of making it looks straight rather than focusing more drawing from your shoulder. There are cases of overshooting/missing the designated endpoints but this can be improved over practicing so don't worry if you didn't manage to nail it the first time.
3. Ghosted Planes
• You did great on this one! Lines are confident and not wobbly.
Ellipses
• Overall, nice job! Your ellipses are mostly evenly shaped, consistent and smoothly executed. I can tell you did thrive trying to fit the ellipses against the borders, the funnels, and the planes.
Boxes
1. Plotted Perspective
• Remember that your verticals are supposed to be perpendicular to the horizon (especially those lines at the back of the box).
• A nice attempt of hatching here; however, the lines are bunched together pretty tightly. This isn't a huge problem, but it might be resulting in uneven spacing and/or wobble on the box planes (Since we are supposed to use a ruler for this exercise, they are much easier to execute and appear consistent. But it will be a good reminder when you move onto the 250 boxes challenges where the hatchings are freehand). Spreading those lines out a bit could help achieve smooth lines and give yourself enough space to work with to establish uniform hatching.
2. Rough Perspective
• Your front and back faces of the boxes are composed of horizontals that are parallel to the horizon line, and verticals that are perpendicular to it so great job!
3. Rotated Boxes
• Considering the difficulty of this exercise, I commend your attempt. Clearly shown you followed the core steps of the exercise. The gaps between your boxes are tight and consistent. Not to mention your boxes are rotated quite nicely.
4. Organic perspective
• There are a few cases of divergence. You may need to give yourself more time to think through the planning phase of their lines (during which you place your various points). Highly encourage you to do so when moving onto the 250 boxes challenge.
Overall, good job! Your lines are gradually more confident and consistent over each exercise. You can definitely start incorporating these exercises as your warms-up and moving onto the 250 boxes challenge now! Of course, feel free to ask and comment on the replies if you have any more questions or want to clarify the materials regarding this lesson.
Next Steps:
Incorporating these exercises as warm-ups
Move onto the 250 boxes challenge
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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