Hello!

Congratulations on getting through your first lesson!

Now to the critique!

Lines: Your lines seem to wobble and arch so remember to use your shoulder and draw confidently. You said that this was something you struggle with so I would recommend you to practice smooth and straight lines firstly to get used to drawing with shoulder without worrying about accuracy (not placing any dots like in the ghosted lines exercise). Your difficulties might come from just not being used to drawing from shoulder which will get better the more you practice. You might also just not have enough confidence when executing the lines or worry too much about accuracy. Other things that might make it more difficult could be not having enough room to move your arm or having your desk too high up. In some cases people might also tend to curve their lines naturally in which case it is suggested to try and curve to the opposite direction to even the line out... So before anything I would suggest that you try to identify why is it that you struggle with drawing from the shoulder and then try to work on your lines.

On superimposed lines both of your ends frayed a little bit so just remember to focus on starting your lines from the same one dot. On ghosted lines and ghosted planes exercises your lines lack in accuracy in some places and overshoot or undershoot your lines. These things however are completely normal as your accuracy will get better with time and practice so don't worry about it. The most important thing is getting your lines to be straight and smooth. I would recommend that once you are comfortable with drawing straight lines from the shoulder you only then think about these things. For future reference to improve your accuracy plot your lines (place the beginning and ending dot of your line on to your paper) and ghost enough times. To get your line end exactly where you want it to lift your pen off the paper exactly at the place you want the line to end which is the other dot you placed down. I would also remind you to only draw the lines once if it is not explicitly stated in the exercise to draw the lines twice because you are also learning to place marks on your paper that you can't "fix" to make you more aware of where and how you draw your lines.

However most of the things I pointed out are small and nothing to worry about. I am confident that you'll be able to draw straight lines quickly enough when you just focus on that.

Ellipses: Overall your ellipses look good. There are small things I would point out: try to keep your ellipses evenly shaped and your accuracy is little off like in the ellipses in planes exercise where your ellipses don't always touch all of the sides of the planes or they go over them. These things however are really difficult to do and something almost everyone struggles with. Again these things improve over time as you practice more so nothing to worry about.

Boxes: Overall you have done your exercises as instructed and I have just small things to point out; in the rough perspective exercise try to keep the width lines parallel to the horizon line and height lines perpendicular to the the horizon line, in the organic perspective try to keep the initial 'Y' you use to construct the boxes over 90 degrees (this is something to keep in mind for the 250 box challenge) and in organic perspective and rotated boxes going over the lines twice is enough (although it might be just the fact that you used the marker that it looks like you went over them more times which in that case is completely fine). These things are just for you to keep in mind. Just to mention in it your perspective is inaccurate in your exercises except for the plotted perspective one. However you aren't expected to be able to eyeball your perspective yet as you will be practicing it next in the 250 box challenge.

Moving on I would recommend first getting comfortable with just drawing straight lines before moving on to the 250 box challenge so you don't have to worry about it while also having to focus on the perspective, however it is up to you to decide. In your warm ups I would also recommend practicing lines that are straight, smooth and start and end exactly where you want them to by ghosting enough times and once executing focusing only on getting the line to be straight by using your shoulder. Other thing to practice is also ellipses that are accurate while still smooth and even shaped by ghosting enough and using your shoulder. Achieving these things is hard so if your warm ups don't turn out great it is completely normal as these are just for you to get used to drawing these things and again improvement takes time so just be patient and not too harsh on yourself. (You can use exercises from lesson one like ellipses in planes as your warm ups you do for around 15 minutes before you start working on the boxes but remember to switch things up and tackle your weak points.)

Although it might seem like there are a lot of things I critiqued you on just remember that most of the things I mentioned are small things just to keep in mind. You mentioned feeling like your exercises didn't turn out so great but I would also remind you that first of all everyone struggles with these exercises as they are meant to be hard so you to learn and see where you still need improvement. Main thing is that you did your exercises overall very well and were able to complete the first lesson! You also seem to have understood all the concepts taught in this lesson so feel free to move on to the 250 box challenge

Good job! :)