Hello! Congrats on completing lesson 1. I will point out some minor mistakes and things you did well so you can avoid them in the future.
Lines:
-Super imposed: A small issue I noticed on the second page, they arch in a similar way for the whole page, which I couldn't tell if it was purposeful or not. If it was purposeful, disregard the next few sentences. If you didn't mean them to be arched, this could be because you are using your elbow or because you unconsciously are arching that direction. If it was caused by your elbow, just fix it by making sure you are you are always using your shoulder. If you were using your shoulder and find them to keep arching, try arching the opposite direction to recalibrate your brain.
-Ghosted Planes: Basically the same as Ghosted Lines.
Ellipses:
In the tables of ellipses, the ellipses mostly fit in, although sometimes overlap slightly (nothing out of regular). I think it might do you good to ghost a couple more times before drawing them, as sometimes their 2-3 passes are sort of wild in comparison to each other. You passed through each 2-3 times, so thats good.
For the ellipses in planes, it's basically the same as the tables of ellipses. I suggest you ghost a couple more times, and possibly do this as a warm-up a bit more than other exercises in the beginning. You seem to be making an effort to touch the sides, which is also good.
For the funnels, your ellipses don't totally line up with the minor axis, but its not that big of a problem nor on that many of the funnels. Overall, solid.
Boxes:
For your plotted perspective, I did notice there are a couple places where your vertical lines converge. This isn't that big of a deal and was most likely a mistake since it's not constant, but just make sure in the future one point perspective has parallel vertical lines, and parallel horizontal lines. Another thing I noticed that's almost not worth mentioning but I'll mention just to note is that since the hatching on one side is optional, make sure to do it neatly and ghost all of your lines, even on the hatching. Honestly, sometimes I don't do this but it is something we should do.
Your rough perspective is also fine, just remember to keep ghosting your lines & if you make a line wrong, don't redo it, just leave it as is. You are correctly checking convergences, so all good there.
Your rotated perspective is mostly good, you are rotating them as directed and keeping the corners close. I did notice that the far back corners don't have a back/drew through, but again, no biggie.
Your Organic perspective is mostly fine, you understand the gist of it and will get more practice in the 250 box challenge. I did again notice that there are a couple lines you are going over more than once, which is a hard to stop habit that we are supposed stop.
Most, if not all, of the mistakes I mentioned here will be mainly fixed in the 250 box challenge, so I would suggest you go on ahead with that.
Next Steps:
Put the exercises from lesson 1 in your warm up rotation, and move on to the 250 box challenge.
Thankyou so much for critiquing. I will ghost more and do some more warmup before drawing and will keep all your points in mind and head to 250 box challenge.
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