Hey Ferask! I am paperhat and I will be doing your lesson 1 critique.

My critique will be divided into three sections:

Lines

• Super-imposed lines: Your lines are only fraying on one end and not on both, that is great! Your lines are also generally confident looking. Just a few of your longer lines are also arching. Arching might happen if you are not using your shoulder pivot. However, it might also happen if you use your shoulder pivot. In that case try to consciously arch in the opposite direction. Try to pay close attention on which pivot your are using. It also looks like you a trying to correct the direction in order to stay on the line. Be aware that this makes your lines less confident and only a little more accurate. Remember: Confidence over accuracy!

• Ghosted Lines: Your lines are again generally confident looking. Here and there it looks like you were trying to correct your line in order to be more accurate. This might be on purpose or your brain just does that, because that's what brains do. Either way try to resist that urge to correct your line in order to have it look more confident. accuracy will come with time and practice.

• Ghosted Planes: Your lines are confident and quite accurate. You also remembered to always put at dot at the beginning and the end of each line, this is crucial for the ghosting method. Great job!

Ellipses

• Tables Of Ellipses: Your ellipses look smooth (confident) and are nicely touching. They over-/undershoot a tiny bit here and there, but are overall very accurate as well. THe only thing I can notice is that you repeat each ellipse a bit too often. Some are repeated 3 times (which is within the bounds), but some seem to be repeated more often. Be sure to stick to repeating them 2 to 3 times (2 times is prefered).

• Ellipses in Planes: Here some of your ellipses look less confident than in the exercise before. This is probably because you tried to not over-/undershoot too much. However, same as for the lines, confidence is more important than accuracy. The majority is still confident/smooth looking though.

• Funnels: You placed the minor axis correctly, cutting the ellipses in two halves! Here your ellipses look mostly confident and do not over/undershoot a lot. One thing to note: Your funnels have an ellipses on the middle line diving the funnel into a left and a right half. This is not how it is supposed to be, the line in the middle is an ellipses itself. The ellipses you draw into the funnel should be kind of mirrored at this axis. This mistake might have happened because you did not change the degree of the ellipses much, try that when using this exercise as a warm-up.

Boxes

• Plotted Perspective: You draw through your boxes which is very good. Your hatching looks a bit rushed here and there, but overall fine.

• Rough Perspective: You draw through all your boxes and use the line correction method. Your lines are mostly confident and you keep the width lines are parallel to the horizon and height lines perpendicular to the horizon.

• Rotated Boxes: : You keep the corners between boxes close and rotate the boxes quite well. Your hatching and lineweight looks neat and orderly and makes your boxes pop. very well done!

• Organic Perspective: : You have a variety of box sizes and angles, which is great. You also tried overlapping some boxes and applying lineweight. Here your lineweight looks messy though. It is important to also use the ghosting technique when applying lineweight. These images might help: https://imgur.com/OHvr7Mb, https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/980a575e.jpg.

You have done really well here! I am going to mark this submission complete and let you go onto the 250 box challenge. Be sure to remeber doing your warm-ups before each session of drawing. Good luck!