Note for cylinder 90-150: Sometimes you'll see a pair of arrows (one red one blue) for the same ellipse. Blue is the one where I use rulers in order to check how far off I was with my initial checking (in which I was eye-balling).
Sometimes ellipse's minor axis is abnormally off than it should be (for example, the far side of cylinder 93). This is because I tried to draw a perfect circle (or very close), to which I failed horribly. T_T
Congratulations on getting through the 250 cylinders!
You have good line confidence, generally well aligned ellipses with 2-3 passes, ellipses that change in degree as they get farther away, varied cylinders, and all your lines to check your work. Likewise, it looks like you remember your box work from 250 boxes.
There were some sporadic errors, such as 212, which was round enough for 1 point perspective (it seems you corrected this in 213), or 76, which had a very dramatic difference in ellipse degree.
It also seems like you had difficulty aligning cylinders in boxes that didn't have the corner nearly right towards you, giving the benefit of near symmetry. I had a hard time with these too. The only thing I could think of to do was to draw the ellipse before drawing the plane. I'm not sure if drawing the ellipse first is "cheating." Perhaps someone else has a better idea of how to tackle this. I think using ellipse guides in lessons 6 and 7 helps with this problem a bit. Scott Robertson's book talks about this a bit ( https://imgur.com/a/WUERjtz ). It seems to boil down to creating horizontal bounds, putting the correct ellipse in with a guide, and then fitting the verticals to the ellipse.
However, overall it looks like your understanding grew and you benefitted from trying out a lot of different things. It was better to have the variety and experimentation, complete with sporadic errors/corrections, than it would have been to stick with a few "safe" options. On to lesson 6!
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 6, and possibly ask on discord how to handle cylinders in boxes that are line up oddly.
Thank you for the feedback! Really appreciate it.
Michael Hampton is one of my favourite figure drawing teachers, specifically because of how he approaches things from a basis of structure, which as you have probably noted from Drawabox, is a big priority for me. Gesture however is the opposite of structure however - they both exist at opposite ends of a spectrum, where structure promotes solidity and structure (and can on its own result in stiffness and rigidity), gesture focuses on motion and fluidity, which can result in things that are ephemeral, not quite feeling solid and stable.
With structure and spatial reasoning in his very bones, he still provides an excellent exploration of gesture, but in a visual language in something that we here appreciate greatly, and that's not something you can find everywhere.
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