I apologize for some of the frames being slightly cut off, I was using 9x12in illustration paper that worked for pen and ink from exercise 4 onward. I... didn't think about how large the pages would be relative to my scanner. I will proceed to just use A4 from here on.
hello wardino! For the paper for the course you can just use and it is recommended to use copypaper, so you don't need to use expensive illustration paper. The frame cutting isn't a problem so don't worry about it! Let's go through the exercises section by section:
Starting with your lines they are pretty confident overall and I can see you don't have trouble committing to your lines even if they're gonna miss the ending point which is exactly what we want! They do get a bit wobbly at times, specially on the ends, so try to always commit to your muscle memory and not hesitate. As long as you keep committing to your lines you have nothing to worry about, you'll keep improving!
On superimposed lines you haven't tried many longer curved lines, so I recommend you try them out on future attempts.
Last thing is that you aren't drawing starting and ending dots on each line you draw on the ghosted planes. Be careful with that as it's pretty important for applying the ghosting method.
Moving onto your ellipses you're doing a great job drawing them confidently as well! Main thing on these is that sometimes make one end of each ellipse different than the other. It's super hard, but try to always keep in mind the symmetrical shape of the ellipse when drawing them. Accuracy on them is pretty good already as well! They're mostly kept snuggly within bounds on the table of ellipses so good job!
On the ellipses in planes I think that you might be thinking that the centre of the ellipses is the same as the centre of the planes or that you can modify the ellipses shape to touch the contact points, but this is not the case. Ellipses have to be symmetrical and have the same form regardless of where they are, so the only things you can change is how wide the ellipse is and which position it is in.
Lastly on your funnels sometimes you aren't aligning the ellipses to the minor axis. Make sure you always aim for the ellipses to be cut symmetrically by the middle line even if that means you need to ignore the initial curves. Keep an eye on the vertical allignment as well. Some of them are a bit tilted, and since they have to be cut symmetrical they need to be straight.
Finally in your boxes a few things:
-You're doing as well on this section a great job committing to your lines even with the added complexity on boxes! They still get a bit wobbly in some cases so always keep an eye on that, but you're on the right track!
-On rough perspective you're doing a fantastic job with the accuracy of the perspective, keep it up! Only issue here is that sometimes you have a little bit of trouble at keeping some lines height lines perpendicular to the horizon line, and width lines parallel to it..You can check if the starting and ending dots are correct or not, and if you find that they aren't you can change them. You can put down as many dots as you want as long as it's before drawing the actual line, doing this should help you to make the lines even better more consistently so give it a shot!
-On rotated boxes you've rotated most of the boxes and kept them all together all without getting confused, great job! Only thing here is that some of the outer boxes aren't rotating, so keep that in mind in future attempts!
-Sometimes you also repeat some lines, so remember that after you draw a line you can draw over it, commit to it and move on to the next line!
-Lastly on organic perspective the main thing is that you have stopped using the ghosting method. Whenever you draw a line you have to draw the starting and ending dots like you've been on past exercises. Perspective on the boxes has some issues but that's not a problem as you'll work on it on the box challenge!
Overall like I said you've done a pretty good job, but I want you to do 1 more frame of organic perspective (1/3 of a page) just to make sure you understand and can plan your normal boxes as well. It doesn't matter if the perspective has issues, but it's suuper important that you always plan through your lines, that's the main thing. That being said, good luck and keep up the good work!
Next Steps:
1 more frame of organic perspective
https://imgur.com/a/iA2FYSi here is the link to the extra frame. I appreciate the feedback and am looking forward to more later on. I'm still struggling to end my lines at the correct spots, in which I try to accomodate by taking my pen of the paper as recommended, but still manage to undershoot, overshoot, or squigle at the end. Should I not worry about it too much as it'll go away with more practice, or should I attempt to specifically tackle the issue while practicing?
Good job! About the overshooting/undershooting thingy, since right now you still have a few wobbly parts on lines at times focus on that. In general the first thing you gotta focus on is on making the lines perfectly straight and confident. Once you can do that accuracy will start getting better and better with practice, so don't worry too much about it.
Main thing on this exercise is that you are still repeating some lines that were off in some boxes. Make sure you don't do it as like I said earlier repeating lines will only make things messier and encourage bad habits. After making a line no matter how off it is just go to the next one.
That said, overall you've done a good job, so I'll mark this as complete. Don't forget to focus on confidence of your lines from now on and to plan them carefully.
From now on you remember to do warmups from now on, and good luck on the box challenge! Don't hesitate on asking any more questions you have and keep up the good work!
Next Steps:
250 box challenge
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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