Hello Aithran, I'll critique your submission
1) lines: in general you did all of the three exercises very well, your superimposed lines are smooth, compact and have very little frying at the end, well done! Ghosted lines are also well drawn as for the ghosted planes, which you also have carefully plotted. Well done indeed!
2) Ellipses: here again you did great, your ellipses are confidently drawn and have no bumps at all, you did well in drawing them with two or three strokes. Both your tables of ellipses and ellipses in planes are great, the only critique I can give you is that sometimes a few of your ellipses invade other ellipses, but honestly there are just a few of them and with practice you'll eventually get even better in this regard. Funnels are also drawn well and the ellipses are split in equal halves.
3) Boxes. Plotted perspective is great, got no real critique for them. As for the rough perspective while generally being also well done, I see that there are more than a few correction lines not reaching the vanishing point, no biggie with practice you'll also get better with this exercise, one advice I can give you, is to costantly check if the dots you place while plotting your boxes are still following the trajectory to the vanishing point.
The rotated boxes exercise is also well done, it seems to me that you had an hard time with the corners, that make it appear less rotated, try to exaggerate the rotation of the boxes, give it some more practice. Still you did a good job!
As for the last exercise you also did well, you manged to rotate many of your boxes.
In general you did a very good job with this first lesson, well done!
Next Steps:
next 250 boxes
Thank you for taking the time to help me! I did have a lot of trouble with the rough perspective not going back to the vp. The advice about using the dots does make sense, I'll try it again sometime as a supplementary exercise while keeping that in mind. And I remember being very frustrated with the corners of the rotated boxes haha. I'll check how other people successfully rotated those. I get quite stuck there but I'm sure over time, it'll click like the other lessons did. Those two exercises were definitely the hardest for me! Again thank you for stopping by to critique me! I hope you have a great day!
Congrats on completing lesson 1!
To be honest the only constructive criticism I can give you (aside from LALINCECHELANCIA's criticism) is from now on I would suggest using a non bleeding pen. When you get to Lesson 2 that pen bleeding will become a nightmare with all the fine texture work you'll have to do then. Other than that everything else looks good!
Looks like you are ready for the 250 box challenge
Next Steps:
Make sure to read the material for the 250 box challenge carefully before starting and maybe even take a look at some others who have completed the challenge too!
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