Lines
Starting with your lines, they're a bit wobbly, specially on the ghosted lines exercise. The ones on the superimposed lines one are good.
In these exercises, you should always prioritize confidence over accuracy.
A wobbly line will always be worse than a confident line, no matter how off the confident line is.
If you take a look over the ghosted lines notes you'll see the levels of lines:
Level 1: Line is smooth and consistent without any visible wobbling, but doesn't quite pass through A or B, due to not following the right trajectory. It's a straight shot, but misses the mark a bit. Level 2: Line is straight, smooth and consistent without any wobbling and maintains the correct trajectory. It does however either fall short or overshoot one or both points. Level 3: Line is straight, smooth, consistent without any wobbling. It also starts right at one point and ends exactly at the other.
As you can see, wobbly lines aren't mentioned, which means that they would be worse than level 1.
Another thing is that you aren't drawing starting and ending dots on each line you draw. On the ghosted planes for example, there are some lines where you didn't place it. Be careful with that as it's pretty important to apply the ghosting method.
Ellipses
Ellipses are a bit wobbly too. Just like with lines focus on making them round and confident. Accuracy will come with practice so don't worry about it.
On funnels don't forget the minor axis should cut the ellipses in 2 identical halves. It's hard to do it, but make sure you're aiming for it.
Boxes
A few things:
-On boxes your lines are getting a bit wobbly too, just like in the previous exercises focus on confidence.
-There are some instances where you are repeating some lines, don't do it as it makes the drawing messier. If a line is off leave it be and keep going to the next.
-On organic perspective you got some pretty cool compositions, good job! Just like in the previous ones, don't forget not to repeat lines and to draw lines confidently. Perspective on the boxes here have some issues, but nothing to worry about as you'll work on them on the box challenge.
Next Steps:
First of all, congratulations on finishing lesson 1! Your next step is the box challenge.
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 submissions.
-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts. I can atest to that after having done hundreds of critiques. There are a lot of concepts that I did not understand, and thanks to critiquing I started understanding them. Which made me learn a lot more throughout the course.
-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high, if you critique some critiques, those would be less critiques I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster. The new system ordering submissions also makes that the more agrees your critiques have the higher you'll be placed in the queue of critiques, which will improve your chances of getting critiques faster as well.
It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.
Good luck on the box challenge, and keep up the good work!
NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to it so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.
Thank you for the critique. I've been working through the 250 box challenge and agree that looking back over my lesson 1 work I definitely need to practice my strokes to remove wobble. I'll also try some more practice on elipses. The good news is I least think my strokes have gotten better doing the boxes so I'll just make sure to focus on the confident passes and avoid wobbling. Thank you again.
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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