Hi, congratulation for making the second step of the DaB's (the first step is lesson 0 anyway, at least that what I'm thinking)
Well, for the short, you seems understand the entire exercise of the lesson 1. You only need more practice. Most of your lines are still wobbly and arching, it mean you're probably use your wrist pivot instead shoulder pivot. In Superimposed Lines exercise, there some of the lines that frayed on the both sides.
For ellipses, many of them look not smooth and not confident. Take your time for doing ghosting method. Especially in Funnels exercise, your ellipses are not divided symmetrically to the minor axis. Even more, you didn't draw those long line. My suggestion, after you draw the long line, make sure the short line have same length on the both side. You can find a large circular object, or something else to help you draw those curves/arc line...
Meanwhile the boxes, you did pretty good on those exercise. You understand how perspective and VP work! But still, I found many wobbly lines in this exercise. Remember to lock your wrist pivot and draw using shoulder pivot. Also, you doesn't have to repeat the Rotated Boxes exercise if it goes wrong. It called "grinding" and it mentioned in Lesson 0.
Next Steps:
Since it was more than a month ago you do the exercise, here my suggestion:
Draw planes on a piece of paper and put ellipse on them (1 page of Ellipse on Plane)
Table of Ellipses (1 page)
Funnels (1 page)
Rough Perspective (1 page)
Organic Perspective (1 page)
Am afraid that I ask too many revision...
Yeah, I did the Organic Perspective exercise again, not because I didn't want to move on, I just wanted to see how it would look like after I understood it a little better. Otherwise, I totally agree with your critique.
I never really did much warmup so this revision is really helpful.
And I think some lines are very wobbly because I was too ambitious and didn't want to turn the page to practice drawing lines in different directions.
Funnels was the exercise I remember having the most problems with.
I redid what you told me and here is the album of it: https://imgur.com/a/T6Hh9Ge
Edit: My pen is running out of ink a bit so some lines aren't as clear as they should be
Edit 2: I did this in less than an hour. It feels so good to produce much higher quality stuff much faster.
Indeed, you do much better this time. But there still some things that could you Improves. Especially, your ghosted line! I noticed many wobbly line. You need more practice in this. In next step this method is crucial part to make nice boxes. Remember again to lock your wrist pivot and use your shoulder pivot.
Though that, I think It's enough. You can do next step. Take Ellipse in Plane exercise daily as warm-up. Then, in the future, do the entire exercises of this lesson for recall what have you learned ;D
Good Luck!
Next Steps:
You can start 250 Box Challenge after you read its instructions.
Don't be shy to show your progress in the DaB's discord server, so you know which part that you can improve. Don't worry, they're very friendly!
I actually did the box challenge already, I'm currently at Form Intersections. I just forgot to send my lesson 1 in for community critique.
And it could be that some lines are wobbly because I don't turn the page, I just try to draw it in different directions so some lines turn out really bad.
And thank you very much for your critique, I appreciate it. I will include those exercises in my warmups. Warmups really is a thing that I often leave out but I should do it.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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