I definitely need more work on ellipses.
For the Rough Perspectives, I underestimated how extreme the angles for boxes far away from the VP are.
I used an old Sharpie Ultrafine for this which was iffy with the ink and tip angle; I just got some Pigma Microns and they are a huge upgrade.
Hi there, round. Good job finishing lesson 1. I'm glad to hear you got some new pens and they were a huge upgrade! Let's gets started with your critique.
Lines Your super imposed lines are looking good and on the right track. There are some wobbles here and there but you are developing your confidence nicely. Yoru groupings are tight and you're using your shoulder. Your ghosted lines are also doing pretty well. There are some slight arcs here and there and some squiggles near the end points that can be alleviated by lifting your pen at the end of the line instead of trying to stop your arm. It gives the added bonus of tapering your lines for visual interest.
Ellipses Your ellipses are on the right track. You are doing your best to draw through them as instructed and your larger ones are getting tight while the smaller ones are a little wobblier. For your ellipses in planes, you are doing a good job placing them within the bounds you have set to make sure they are not floating arbitrarily within the planes. Your ellipses in tables are much of the same - no room for ambiguity within your tables so everything is sitting firmly in space. You are off to a good start on your ellipses in funnels. Your ellipses are a little shaky still, but I am seeing improvement. Your minor axes are a little misaligned from the funnel axes so keep that in mind in your warm ups to try and work on aligning your minor axes to a goal.
Rough Perspective Your lines here are improving a lot more! They are planned and confidently executed. Your vertical lines are perpendicular to the horizon and your horizontal lines are parallel to it, resulting in correctly oriented boxes. Your converging lines are on right right track, as indicated by your correctly applied check lines, so good job there. Your accuracy will improve with practice so keep it up! =)
Rotated Boxes I want to commend you for such a nice job on this exercise. You took it to completion, which really is the only objective here, and you did a good job keeping it neat in the face of complexity. Your lines are careful and deliberate and you drew nice and large to give your brain plenty of room to reason through these puzzles. In terms of the exercise there are a few things you could do to to take it to the next level
You are not rotating your boxes so much as skewing them. There are hints of rotation but it could be more deliberate so give this gif some more study and internalize how the rotation is driven by the motion of the vanishing points along the horizon.
You have a lot of space between your boxes, and if you would have packed them tighter together you could have leveraged adjacent lines to serve as perspective guides.
Overall though, good job here and you should be proud
Organic Perspective You are off to a good start. Your compositions have some good motion in them and guide the eye through the page nicely. You do a good job of having boxes in all scales to indicate foreground>midground>background (large, medium, small, respectively) and on top of that you are overlapping your forms to give them a sense of existing together. All of this together serves to really sell the illusion of three dimensional space on a flat sheet of paper. Your perspective is off to a good start, and your sense of how lines should converge will improve with time and practice. For now you have a lot of divergence going on where near planes are smaller than far planes which is opposite of reality. Overall though you did a pretty good job.
Next Steps:
You are off to a lovely start and I'll be marking your lesson 1 as complete. Remember to implement these exercises into your warmups which you should be doing every time you sit down to draw. Your next stop is the 250 box challenge. Be sure to take your time and make sure to draw for fun as instructed in lesson 0 to help avoid burning out. Keep up the good work and we'll see you next time.
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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