Hi Jamzoltan!

I'll be working on your critique today! :) I'll be dividing it into 3 parts as follows:

LINES

• Super Imposed Lines - Your superimposed lines are looking good! You've managed to start at the same starting point as well. You've drawn some confident strokes but there is a little bit of wobbling in some of the lines. This shows that you're not exactly confident in your lines and you slow down to make sure that your line is accurate. Note that in this lesson the focus is on confidence and not accuracy. However, you've done well to make sure each line starts at the starting dot as there is no fraying at the beginning which is an important aspect of this exercise. The fraying at the end will clear up as you practise this exercise more.

• Ghosted Lines - Once again your lines here show a little wobbling. It is very clear you're not confident in your stroke. Do take your time to ghost and once you've ghosted a few times, just let loose! We're not trying to be accurate in this lesson, it's ALL about confidence! I sense you're focusing on trying to reach the end dot too much. When you ghost, let your hand move over the two points a few more times than you have when you did this exercise and then mark the paper. You'll do better the more you ghost. :)

• Ghosted Planes - Your planes also exhibit the same issues I explained previously, i.e. the wobbling/confidence issue. However, there is also another small thing I'd like to mention which is the S and C curves I see in some of the lines. For the subtle c-curved lines, one thing that you can do is to consciously arch the opposite way to maintain a straight line when ghosting, this can help lessen the arching problem. For the subtle s-curved line, try to ghost a lot of times before actually committing to it, you can also increase the speed of ghosting. Once again, the purpose of this exercise is not accuracy but confidence in your stroke. Again, with practice, this will come to you. Keep these points in mind when doing these exercises during your warm-ups.

ELLIPSES

• Tables of Ellipses - Your table looks good! You've done a good job of ghosting your ellipses and I can see you have a little more confidence here as there isn't any obvious wobbling. In addition, you've correctly maintained the 2-stroke ellipse and you've ensured that each ellipse is drawn within and touching its borders. I can see you've reduced your ghosting though in the ellipses on the bottom-left side of the first image. The more you ghost, the tighter these ellipses will be so keep in mind to take as long as you need to ghost before marking the paper.

• Ellipses in Planes - I think you may have ghosted more while doing this exercise as you've drawn better ellipses here! You've ensured that the edges of the ellipses touch all 4 sides of the plane. I see a little wobble in a few ellipses but this issue has already been mentioned. Don't focus on accuracy, always focus on confidence.

• Funnels - There is a relative symmetry with the minor axis cutting the ellipses so that looks fine. However, the same issues of wobble/focusing on accuracy and not enough ghosting are seen here. I won't repeat my advice again but keep it in mind when you tackle this exercise for practise. Overall, not too bad.

BOXES

• Plotted Perspective - Everything looks good here, no issues at all! I noticed that you've not plotted some of the edge lines to the vanishing point. That's fine though keep in mind having done so would be beneficial to you as you can see exactly where your lines will be going rather than stopping a little bit before the vanishing point. You've followed Uncomfortable's example image perfectly as I see you've done it for the last set of boxes on the page similar to him. :)

• Rough Perspective - There's a little wobble curvature to your lines but we've already covered this before so I won't go into it again. Good job on keeping the lines either perpendicular or horizontal to the horizon! Also, you've accurately used the line correction method and drawn through your boxes. On the page with the red pencil, you have incorrectly gone over the horizon but you've corrected that mistake in the second page when you did it in purple. All in all, good job here! Just focus on the wobble and curves and you're good!

• Rotated Boxes - Really good job here! Some students really struggle with this exercise. It is clear that your spatial awareness is good as you've rotated your boxes quite accurately while maintaining quite a close distance with each corner of the boxes. A little bit of curving and wobble can be seen here too in your line work but I'm sure this will improve over time.

• Organic Perspective - The organic boxes look good! You've kept a good sense of rotation as well as perspective here too so good job! Once again though the wobbling lines can be seen and it's even seen in the main swoopy line you've drawn before you drew the boxes. One thing I did notice which is a big mistake is that in 2-3 boxes and even parts of the swoopy line, you've drawn through your stroke twice. This is a big no-no. Regardless of what mistake you made, you should not draw over an already existing stroke. No matter how off a line is, you should never repeat it, you should keep the line as it if were correct and move on. Once again this shows the lack of confidence. If you have ghosted, you may not have felt like you needed to redraw it as it would have been a little more accurate.

Looking at your work as a whole, this is a good submission and I'm confident you'll improve over time. Keep in mind to ghost more and work on the wobbling and curvature of your lines. Ensure to ghost from the shoulder too as sometimes the curving can prevented when you ghost from the shoulder and not from the wrist. Using your wrist limits how straight your line can be.

With practice, I'm sure you'll do well! :) However, I'd like to see a little more work from you as I'm not 100% confident you've understood the concepts taught in this lesson.