This assignment was a journey of self-exploration. I've certainly improved in ghosting my lines into confident strokes, however even towards the end of the challenge I was consistently over-shooting my strokes and getting the angles wrong, i'm not certain how many of these boxes are actually perfect, but it was the extent of my beginner skill.
You did improve through the whole exercise and congratulations on finishing. I have to say that your focus on accuracy made your lines suffer. Even on the last pages I see a tiny bit of wobble. When you do your warm ups really use that shoulder. If you still not comfortable doing that, go back to the lesson. I did a few times and suddently I was doing really straight lines, ignoring accuracy, and little by little accuracy improve.
You did get the perspective idea of the exercise and I am impressed how often your lines converge really close. Congratulations on that.
Next Steps:
Keep practicing the ghosting and don't worry about overshooting, focus on straight then on accuracy. Move to 250 cylinder challenge, haha, just kidding that comes around lesson 5, go to Lesson 3
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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