Hi Flippythetrier

I'll be doing your critique today!

Lines

• Starting by the superimposed lines exercise,I can see that your lines are drawn with confidence. You've been consistent with always starting off at the same point. Don’t worry about the fraying at the ends, as this tends to disappear with more mileage and practice.

• With your ghosted lines, you've done well and once again you've shown confidence in your strokes. There's barely any wobble and you've consistently ended at the end point of your stroke so nicely done.

• The ghosted planes are no different from the ghosted lines, and you have plotted your initial and final points which is important to use the ghosting method correctly. Great job so far!

Ellipses

• Your table of ellipses look good and you have stayed within the bounds of the page. There is no overlapping between the ellipses so well done here. I do so certain ellipses with more than 3 strokes to them. Please keep in mind that we try to stick to 2 or 3 strokes and not more. We feel we need to draw more strokes to make it look more accurate but that is not required at this stage. Confidence is what we are trying to improve and if we ghost more before we mark the paper, there is more accuracy. This will improve with more practise so dont worry about accuracy at the moment.

• On the ellipse in planes I like to see that you are not too overly concerned with having your ellipses touching the four sides of the plane, this is correct as we should always strive to draw symmetrical and well rounded ellipses regardless of where they are. Most ellipses are within the plane so well done here. Although some ellipses did end up a little distorted, this issue will disappear with more practise.

• The ellipses are still drawn with good confidence on the funnels and overall they are turning out nicely. You did a good job fitting them snugly without spilling out too much, they are also being cut by the minor axis in equal halves which is correct. Once again we see the same issue of going over an ellipse more than 3 times but like I said before, this will improve. So far, you're doing well.

Boxes

• Your plotted perspective looks fine and theres no issues here.

• On the rough perspective I can see that you have kept up the confident linework, though there are some boxes where you haven't drawn the line to the horizon. Specially that one box on the first page-middle exercise where your line is plotted not from the depth plane. You have to understand which planes we are plotting to the horizon. Remember it is the depth planes we plot. You have not aligned them to the VP which is what we want so nicely done there. Maybe using a less thicker marker or even a pencil would be better so you can differentiate more clearly where your depth lines go. I also noticed that you have drawn more than one stroke to a certain plane in some boxes. There is also a little wobble. Remember we are trying to train our stroke to be confident. You have shown you can do this when it came to the Lines exercises above so remember what you did there and apply it here. Ghost your lines as much as you want before your pen marks the paper. This will help. You have correctly drawn them parallel and perpendicular to the horizon so good job here. Your estimation of the VP will become more accurate as you practice more boxes so dont worry about it.

• You are moving in the right direction when it comes to the rotated boxes, and I can see that you have tried to keep the gaps between boxes narrow consistently, but once again you have repeated strokes to a plane. This is almost like the chicken scrawl that was mentioned in Lesson 0. Remember to use the ghosting method to think about each mark’s purpose and how you are going to achieve it best, and also keep in mind that each line is no less important for being part of a larger group, give each one of them as much time and attention as it requires. Take your time with ghosting so that you mark each stroke confidenctly. Try to keep the boxes tight together, and use the sides of adjacent boxes as hints to draw your next box, this way you will not rely on guesswork or eyeballing as shown here.

• Finishing with the organic perspective you are already moving in the right direction, but again the double stroke issue appears. Your sense of perspective is not too bad and this will improve as you do the box challenge later. You have shown a nice flow of boxes as a whole. All in all, well done. I'd say confidence in your stroke is what you need to work on the most. I think with more practise of these exercises you will improve and that confidence will come to you.

As for self critiquing and re-doing work, do not self critique! That's what we're here for after all! :) But more seriously, understanding the content of this course is what we are aiming here. Having confident strokes is more important than how something looks at the moment and we judge our own work much more harshly than we do others. That confidence is the basis of everything so as long as that is kept in mind you are doing fine.

Do not re-do work as this course is tough enough with all the exercises given. No more and no less needs to be done. Take everything in stride. You've done a good job so far and it shows you've understood the lessons so well done! I'd say you're ready to move to the next lesson so I'll mark this as complete.

Please keep in mind to keep the points I've mentioned above when you practise for your warm-ups! :)