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5:04 AM, Saturday October 2nd 2021
Hello Giared, I hope you're doing well.
I'll be dividing this critique into 3 sections, lines, ellipses, and boxes.
Starting with your lines.
I noticed that quite a few of them are coming out quite wobbly. Make sure to prioritize getting confident and straight lines instead of accurate ones, as accuracy will improve overtime.
There isn't much fraying on your superimposed lines, so good job on that.
Moving on to your ellipses.
I see that most of your ellipses are well kept in bounds. However, similar to your lines, some of them are coming out quite wobbly, but it tends to get a bit better near the end, so don't worry too much about it.
With your funnels exercise, a few of them aren't quite aligned to the minor axis. Make sure you aim for the ellipses to be cut in 2 symmetrical halves even if that means you need to ignore the curves.
Finally, your boxes.
You did a good job on making your boxes and extending them out to the vanishing point.
For your rotated boxes exercise, you seem to be keeping the gaps between your boxes narrow and consistent. However, you did run into the beginner mistake of just moving the boxes back in perspective. Make sure the vanishing points of your boxes are moving, and not converging towards the same vanishing points. (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/notrotating)
Lastly, on your organic perspective exercise, make sure to rotate your boxes a bit more.
Overall, you've done a pretty good job. You should definitely try to practice having a bit more confidence in your lines and focus more on making them straight instead of accuracy. Aside from that, the mistakes you've made isn't anything significant, so don't stress too much out on them.
You can move onto the 250 boxes challenge.
Next Steps:
You're free to move onto the 250 boxes challenge.
Ellipse Master Template
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.