Hello!!! First of all, as I'm also a beginner, let me give feedbacks from my beginner POV. In ellipses section, I think you should draw ellipses through only 2 or 3 times because it seems to have more than 2 or 3 times in some of your ellipses. Also in rotated boxes, I think corners between boxes are a little bit too narrow.
Overall, all of your drawings seem to be better than mine xD. Let's be successful together, mate. Wish you all the best.
Next Steps:
I think your next step would be 250 boxes challenge.
Alright Guinea pig #2 for critiques. I want to offer my sincerest apologies before we begin... Good Lord you're using a sketchbook!! What is that 25 - 50 cents a page? My man! or Women!! Do yourself a favor and buy some cheap copy paper and stick it in a folder. Buy yourself a sandwich with that extra money! What's that? I'm projecting my broke ass problems on other people? Fine let's move on.... (as I eat my 300th PB&J of this year)
Superimpose Lines: Solid. You start the line carefully and let a rip. There does seem to be some arching but since this is a warm up exercise I'm sure it will improve over time. Just remember to tilt your page ina a comfortable position.
Ghosted Lines: Solid strokes with some over and undershoots, along with some arching lines. Again a warm up exercise, after hundred times you'll get better.
Ghosted Planes & Ellipses in Planes: This got me too! In the video and the lesson the instructor clearly says use your Ghosted planes for the Ellipse exercise but the concession in the community is that they are two separate exercises and should be treated as such. I like how you play with extreme angles just remember the instruction are to only go over the ellipse twice, three times max. On a side note I find this to be the best warmup exercise if I'm short on time. It helps with line quality, ellipses, and also gives you room to mess around with perspective and distortion.
Table of Ellipses: 2 full pages and again a good variety of sizes. Some of the line work gets wobbly though. Remember to position you page in a comfortable position and use those big muscles in your arm.
Funnels: Solid. All of the ellipses are touching with minimal overlap and they seem to fall on the minor axis correctly, creating two equal halves.
Plotted Perspective: Spot on.
Rough Perspective: Solid. You seem to understand the exercise well. Most of your problems will be solved with better line quality, which again will come naturally with practice and implementing these lesson into a regular warm-up.
Rotated Boxes: Impressive. The boxes are tight and maintiant the illusion that they are of similar size despite the distortion of them falling away from the page. Some of the bottom ones look off but overall a very nice effort.
Organic Perspective: Again not to club a dead horse but you clearly understand the exercise, with the boxes becoming smaller to bigger as you follow a curve. Line quality will improve with time.
Overall Thoughts: Evertyhing looks in order. My suggestion would be to make sure your implementing the lessons into a regular warm-up. I typically take 15 - 30 minutes before I start a lesson or do any free drawing (And looking at my drawings I should probably make an effort to draw more during the week.) Also I would say don't be a slave to a sketchbook. If you enjoy it and it's comfortable then by all means stick with it. I found it much more beneficial to take copy paper, (about a cent a page) and taping it to a drawing board. That way I can rotate, tilt, and dictate where the page will fall in my eye-line in any which way. Again if your comfortable and you enjoy the art being in a sketchbook that's all that really matters.
So yeah... critique # 2 in the books. Good work and hope to see you in lesson two. Till then, Cheers and Happy Drawing.
This was helpful, thanks!
(using a Sketchbook, to see my progress. If i'D use copy paper. I'd instantly lose that shit. And i don't mean like im to lazy to put it in a folder. I would lose it in the process. Trust me. That will feel likei don't make progress. So thats that :D)
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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