For exercise 8 i made a silly mistake and ruled red and blue lines back to the vanishing points instead of the path of the box edges as the exercise video stated, i corrected this with a green pen (also ignore the writing on the exercises, they mean nothing in regards to the exercises).
Hello! I'd like to give you some comments on your L1 homework. Please, don't take it harshly, as a beginner it's fine to make mistakes because only if we see what's wrong we can work on it.
Lines
Starting with the superimposed lines exercise, I see that after a few lines with a clearly defined starting point the rest have fraying on both ends which is a sign of not taking time to reposition your hand. There is a couple of lines looking somewhat broken and one not extending to the end. Are you sure you hadn't been rushing this exercise? Also, I think you forgot to attach the first page as I don't see it on the imgur page. Anyway, I believe you should work more on the line excercise.
Moving on to the ghosted lines the most of them look rather accurate, however, I notice that some of them display signs of having been redrawn and also some marks have a sort of protrusions. This lesson tries to teach you to value flow over accuracy, please, make sure you are ghosting the lines thoroughly and do not, in any circumstances, draw the single line more than once. I see that you carried over the same mistake to your further pages. Additionally, make sure you keep pushing yourself to draw from your shoulder, as your lines tend to make an sligh arch. If you keep having trouble with this, try to compensate by arching your lines in the opposite direction.
The same general comments about markmaking apply to this section too. Besides, there are some odd floating ink marks around the middle area of the planes. I don't see the difference between the width of side lines and their midpoints. Are you trying to freehand them? Again, just as for the ghosted lines, you are supposed to mark the start and end points for all the lines and only then ghost and draw them.
Ellipses
Your ellipses look rather good. I like how they are touching their limiting lines. However, try to focus more on the eveness of their shape. It may be worth to keep the excercise section for further warmups.
The majority funnels don't have the required longitudinal line, one of the present lines is not in the middle of the arches, and thus there are problems with the ellipses alignment. Please, reread the page and make sure you've understand the task.
Boxes
The plotted boxes page looks weird: the boxes are confusing to read without hatching of their front sides and the horizon line is either absent or too faint on two pages. Yet, I see you trying to work on visibility in the rough perspective section, so this may be acceptable for the beginning.
Rough perspective seems well-thought-out and hatching of the front sides makes it easier to read. Still, a couple of boxes don't have the full set of lines (back lines missing), you may want to check your pages the second time once you complete them if all the objects satisfy the task requirements.
The rotated boxes do look rotated, but some of them don't have the back lines visible. You are supposed to make a full wireframe picture for each box to improve your 3D-thinking. This will become especially useful for the 250 boxes challenge and later drawabox stuff. The same markmaking comments apply and, once again, do not redraw you lines. One of the main goals of this course is to make you think before you put marks on the page and not to throw random stuff at a page and see how it turns out. Belive me, I've lost a ton of time because of the latter mindset before I met Drawabox. Measure twice cut once.
The last, organic perspective. A sizable amount of boxes appear divergent — it means not every lines in the 3-lines set for a single side tend to converge to a single point as they come out of the front side. That's the essence of linear perspective and you'd probably want to work more on that matter.
Now, thank you for putting effort into this lesson. You clearly understood many of the basics, but there are some mistakes at the core concepts it is trying to teach you, so I'd like to ask you for a couple revisions.
Next Steps:
Superimposed lines — one page, focus on starting the lines from the single point only; fraying on one end is okay. Ghosted planes — one page, don't redraw the lines even in an event of them failing to meet the targets and don't put any marks in a plane's interior. Funnels — one page, put both straight lines first and focus more on the ellipses alignment. Organic perspective — one page, try to understand the convergence of the edges for each set of parallel lines (they have their respective vanishing points however far would they be). On any of these revisions, please, focus on the linework.
I have done the revisions of the exercises I have needed to do (i apologise for such a long delay in finishing them).
I tried to better understand the vanishing points in the organic perspective exercise, and better followed the steps in the funnels exercise. I'm not sure if i did enough ellipses and there are issues with the alignment (i did try my best to keep them aligned). Also, if you were wondering, the 2 extremely wonky lines in the superimposed lines exercise are from me hitting something while my hand was moving.
The link to the images are here: [https://imgur.com/a/iGOt0D5]
I guess, it's my time to apologize for the wait.
First of all, you didn't get discouraged and quit after receiving not-wholly-positive feedback on your work, that's great! It means that you have the drive and that you'll get there eventually.
Now, to the revisions.
The line quality in the boxes and planes sections looks fantastic! Very good job and it's evident that you put the necessary effort. The funnels are also much better. The alignment is a good part of the further constructional lessons, where you'll work on them in a more practical way to get rid of the remaining problems.
Although there are some divergencies in the first two panels of the boxes, their number steadily shrinks as you get towards the end — you're improving in front of your own eyes! I think, after the 250 box challenge you'll finally nail this topic.
With that I'll mark this lesson as completed. Stay persistent, learn from your mistakes and never give up!
Next Steps:
Proceed to the 250 box challenge.
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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