The first 12 pages were done with a 0.4 fineliner in a couple of days time. The final 2 with 0.5 staedtler pigment liner a month after the previous 12. A vacation started the delay, but when I came back I was really dreading the final exercise and started procrastinating. Glad I finally finished it though.
Lines
Your lines overall look good, I would want to point out that sometimes your lines get wobbly, especially in rough perspective. I suppose you focused more on perspective than making good lines. Remember to do a one clean swoop, good linemaking is build upon teribble, BUT confident linemaking.
Ellipses
Ellipses are good, nothing to point out in them. Keep on practicing and you will make them smooth and nice in no time!
Perspective
Perspective isn't great, but it is expected to be that way. You will improve a lot on it while doing 250 box challange.
Overall great job, proud of you. You can go to 250 box challange, just rember about what I talked above.
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.
-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.
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!
You are right, for the rough perspective I focused a lot on the perspective. Also as far as the lines go, I have trouble drawing the really short lines with my shoulder. Is that necessary? For those lines I feel like drawing from the elbow gives me much more control.
The organic perspective was really difficult indeed.
On to the 250 box challenge!
You can absolutely draw short lines with elbow. The main point of focusing on using your shoulder for drawig is that pretty much everyone has a habit of not using it as they draw, because you learn to write using your wrist and sometimes elbow, so the shoulder is taken out of equation. If your lines does not suffer from drawing from elbow you can draw them with elbow as this gives more control over your hand movement.
Some of you may remember James Gurney's breathtaking work in the Dinotopia series. This is easily my favourite book on the topic of colour and light, and comes highly recommended by any artist worth their salt. While it speaks from the perspective of a traditional painter, the information in this book is invaluable for work in any medium.
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