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Superimposed lines: Looking good. There is some slight wobbling, but nothing that is unexpected for this point of time. Just keep drawing from your shoulder and focusing on the end point, and all will be good. All the fraying happens in the middle and the end, but you always start properly from the start point, which is good.

Ghosted lines: There is some more wobbling here than earlier. You might be slowing down to try too hard to accurately hit the end point, hesitating when you notice that your line is not achieving that. A big part of learning to draw is that you have to accept that mistakes will happen. The most important in this (and many other) exercises is that you draw confidently; we want those smooth lines. Accuracy is something you'll develop over time, as you keep drawing more. Once you put your pen down on the paper, any opportunity to avoid a mistake has passed, and you must commit to drawing the line.

The wobbling isn't too intense for now, though. There are some smooth, confident lines, so maybe you realized all this yourself while doing the exercise. Also, you hit the starting point well, and that's good.

Ghosted planes & Ellipses in planes: And now, the wobbling has gotten quite a bit more intense. It may have started because now you have to actually draw shapes that have some logic behind them. Either way, what I said above still applies. Alternatively, you may be rushing. I mean, the amount of work may easily seem like it's a lot, especially when the subject isn't very exciting. But it's important that you understand what the course is trying to make you do, and it's equally important that you do it correctly now rather than fix your bad habits later. Take your time, do the exercises as instructed, ghost each and every one of your lines a few times, draw from your shoulder, and it'll work out fine.

As for the exercise itself, let's talk about the good things first: You have filled the entire page with the planes. You have drawn planes of different shapes. You are still hitting the starting point of each line properly. Lastly, you have clearly tried to hit the edges of the planes with the ellipses, and not just draw them floating around. These are all very good things.

However, as said earlier, your hesitation has turned to the worse here, both on the lines and the ellipses. You haven't finished a majority of the lines crossing the planes, and many of the ellipses have not been drawn through.

The hesitation with the ellipses may be because you're trying too hard to hit the edges of each planes, again meaning that you're prioritizing accuracy over confidence. The ellipses drawn in this exercise are quite awkward because of the shapes of each plane, so it's normal to find it quite difficult to hit the edges. But again, that is a skill you develop over time, as you do these same exercises as warmups, work on other lessons and exercises of this entire course, and when doing your 50% work and other projects. Many students have started similarly to you, and those who have pressed on have found out that it will work out. Trust the process.

Due to the amount of hesitation and the unfinished nature of the planes, I'll have to ask you to do an extra page. First draw a page full of the planes as you have done here - except for focusing more on confidence and drawing with your shoulder, and then taking your time with ghosting - and then draw ellipses inside them in the same manner. You've got this!

Tables of ellipses: Good things first: You have many frames and filled each one, and have varied the ellipse angles and directions. Afterwards, you have gone back to fill in some gaps with smaller ellipses. Most of the ellipses have been drawn through, although you might want to try doing that twice; sometimes you only end up with only one and a half times.

You should pay more attention to have the ellipses hit the edges of the frame and the neighbouring ellipses. While it's entirely normal to struggle with that - ellipses are notoriously difficult to draw, after all - there are simply too many frames where it seems like you haven't tried as much as you could. Or maybe you have tried, but for some reason they just didn't go as planned? Perhaps you were trying to go too fast, as with the ghosted planes? Either way, it goes back to taking your time and all that jazz that I have talked about a few times already. Oh, and there's also some wobbling that has been present before.

All of the above means that you'll be doing an extra page of tables of ellipses as a revision. What we want to see is that you truly understand what you're working towards, and the best way to do that is to follow the instructions to the dot, no more and no less.

Funnels: You really should use guides to draw the curves and the axises. This exercise is to practice ellipses, not free-hand curves and straight lines. Failing to draw the ellipses unaligned to the minor axis is entirely normal and should not be something to be afraid of - just try your best, as always; you're a beginner, you're not supposed to get everything right the first time around - but there's no point if the minor axis itself is not aligned properly, making it all the more harder to do the exercise as is intended. For this reason, you should revise this exercise.

However, this time around you have managed to draw the ellipses more snugly between the curves and each other, so it's clear that you are having progress. Nice! Keep it up.

Plotted perspective: The setup for this exercise is done correctly. There are two vanishing points, and you're using a straight edge to draw everything. Additionally, you have afterwards hatched in a side of each box. Good start.

However, there are quite a few lines missing. In fact, all boxes have missing sides to them. You should draw them, and then draw the back edge.

Also, you are using some kind of a straight edge (I'm not sure if it's a ruler or something else), so there should be no need for correcting lines. Take your time to place the ruler, and only then draw a line.

Rough perspective: Judging from all the ink mess in the Plotted perspective exercise, I'm guessing something happened to your pen and now you switched to an another one. The rest of the exercises are drawn in a much thicker pen. Considering that you started with a proper size pen, I feel I don't need to talk about the importance of having a 0.5mm fineliner. For now, we can work with what you have for now while you get a new one.

The first page starts off strongly. Both the front and back sides are mostly rectangles, each pointing towards a non-existent vanishing point. Then, you plot the sides that are not facing the viewer towards the vanishing point, although for some reason you haven't done the line extensions.

And then, from the third frame to the end of second page, you drop the ball. You don't draw through the boxes anymore, and especially on the second page, some boxes don't have those rectangular sides anymore.

In fact, looking at the exercise carefully, it doesn't seem like you're placing down any dots before drawing the lines. Just like with the Ghosted lines exercise, all lines should start with placing down two dots, then choosing the dot where you start the line, ghosting the line a few times, and only then drawing. This takes time, but it's important that you do it. Refer to the Ghosted lines exercise as to why.

You should re-do this exercise. Read through the materials again, consider each step carefully, and take your time with going through this exercise.

Rotated boxes: This is where the thicker pen really starts hurting. Drawing through all the boxes becomes very messy to look at.

Still, even though unfinished, what you've managed here is very good! You have placed the neighbouring planes between each box correctly, you have drawn through each box, and converged the boxes adjacent to the middle-most ones well, plus the gaps between boxes are tight and consistent. Well done!

For outer-most boxes, what you should do is converge them even more towards the horizontal or vertical line as the box before it. All the information you need for the converging is already there in the other boxes you've drawn; you only need to refer to those to see how the convergences go. It requires patience, but the result will be worth it.

You can finish this page if you want to, but if you're going to get a new 0.5mm fineliner, might as well start over. Oh, and one small thing: The squares drawn at the beginning as guides should be drawn with a ruler. It's not really a big issue, but if you're going to restart, you should keep that in mind.

Organic perspective: The good: The setup is done correctly, and you're drawing a good amount of boxes. There is a slight difference in the size of the boxes as they move around the line.

But it doesn't seem like you're applying any convergence to the boxes, plus they're all of the same shape. In other words, you aren't applying the perspective part of this exercise. While the exercise doesn't want you to do dramatic foreshortening, without the ghosting method it becomes very difficult to do the shallow converging. You could also stand to do a bit more size difference between boxes that are close to the viewer and those that are further away, with some boxes even going outside of the frame.

Conclusion:

It's clear to me that you haven't spent the time necessary to go through the materials and apply the instructions properly. Sometimes it looks like you start an exercise applying those principles properly, but then at some point you stop it and either leave the exercise unfinished or cut corners wherever possible. This highly suggests that you're impatient, and when one wants to finish fast, they first drop whatever feels inconvenient.

However, those inconvenient bits are the important parts of each exercise. Drawabox doesn't demand you to draw all these things in such a way for no reason. No, there's thought put behind them; Uncomfortable is trying to teach you to learn to draw the right way. It's entirely normal for you to not grasp entirely the reasons why, but just because you don't understand doesn't mean you should take shortcuts. Nobody learns to draw in a day, and when it comes to the fundamentals, even if you get to the parts of a course where they teach you to draw the things you want to draw, you'll only end up struggling even more because you haven't tried to understand why things work the way they do.

There's also the possibility that you started to realize the amount of time and effort this course requires, but weren't at that moment ready to give that time and effort. This is understandable, because the exercises start with simple lines and ellipses that are relatively fast to do. Usually a bit of this can be seen in the Ghosted planes exercise which requires a surprising amount of time to finish, but it becomes very apparent in the box exercises. I noticed that you started drawing smoother lines, but I think that's because you were no longer applying the ghosting method nor were you putting in the time required for all the converging, instead just guessing.

And this is all a shame, because it's also clear to me that you can do it when you try. You're more capable than you think; there's no need for you to cut corners! Follow the instructions to a T, no more, no less. If you're confused about something, you might want to drop in to the Discord server and ask in related channels. There's a community here, ready to help you out. You don't need to work in a vacuum.

There's quite a lot of revisions for you to do. You can reply here once you're done with them, and I'll look them over.

A last reminder: Take your time, ghost the lines, draw from your shoulder, and once you touch the paper with your pan, any chance to avoid a mistake is past, and from there on you must commit to the line. You can do this.