Hello there, congrats on finishing lesson one, now on to the critique.
Lines
Most of the lines look confident, There is only fraying on the ends, which is okay at this point. I see a lot of superimposed lines that have wobbles in them. I think You were going slow on these lines. Try and speed it up a bit. We ghost, so we have confidence and add the line to muscle memory, then we can confidently drawn in the line. Going slow, You will end up with a wobbly.
The ones i'm talking about are not as bad as below, but something like that. Draw them with speed.
https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/5bcda336.jpg
Ghosted lines look confident, Some have some bends here, again speed up. Those little changes in direction could be because you are not drawing fast enough. Use your shoulder and drawn them a bit faster. In the ghosted planes some lines are good, but I see one or two that wobble, drawn from your shoulder and speed it up a bit.
Ellipses
I can see for your ellipses you are choosing accuracy overconfidence, this is resulting in those corners and wobbles in your ellipses. That or you are not drawing from the shoulder, but I will assume you are. Try and ghost your ellipse where you want to put it. Then, when you are confident with the motion, speedily execute the ellipse. The ghosting will hand the accuracy, all you must do is draw a confident ellipse. The ellipses in the table follow the lesson greatly
Boxes
Plotted perspective looks solid, I see a few lines you missed at the back. I do think you can improve with time. Try and keep the lines going to the vanishing points accurate. Rough perspective looks okay, keep in mind that in rough perspective the vertical lines of the boxes are perpendicular to the horizon and the horizontal lines are parallel to the horizon. This will help you plot your lines. This will also fix some distortion of some of the boxes. Rotated boxes look good and tight-knit. The organic perspective boxes flow well and also look good.
I will ask for revision
1-page table of ellipses.
I will ask you to take a page and draw ellipses of random sizes, ghost them and draw them with speedily(not so fast that you can't draw it but faster than you are now) . I think this will help a bit with making you draw with confidence. Draw with speed. Keep the shoulder calm.
So 2 pages of revision.
Next Steps:
1 page table of ellipses
1 page freely drawn ellipses as stated above
Thank you for your critique and feedback. I completely agree with the points you've made. I have also noticed a lot now while working on the 250 boxes challenge and redoing these exercises that I reflexively slow down to be more accurate which unfortunately is disrupting the smoothness of my lines. I have been working towards trusting my ghosting more and letting my shoulder move in one smooth and fast motion, seeing your feedback was very helpful in reaffirming that this correction of my movement is necessary.
Here is the revision work as requested: https://imgur.com/a/6lZRKNv . I consciously made sure to keep the movement from my shoulder as much as possible and complete the ellipses. While the accuracy of the ellipses was off sometimes, they are a lot smoother now in comparison.
Your ellipses are way better, no more corners and bends in the lines. A clear difference just look at your lesson one and compare. Keep working on them
Rotated boxes
You can head on to the 250 box challenge
Remember to use these lesson one exercises as warmups, take your time and don't rush.
Next Steps:
250 box challenge
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