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.
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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