I still can't produce a straight line despite ghosting and drawing from the shoulders and my perception of proportions and distance is awful.
Additionaly, I got so confused by the intercardinal boxes of the rotated boxes exercise that I sort of had to guess their dimensions because I felt like I couldn't estimate a vanishing point or rotate them in my head.
Hello, I'll be looking over your work! First off, your superimposed lines have fraying on both sides. While its fairly normal to have it frayed on one end, make sure to take your time and place your pen so it doesn't fray too much.
Onto your ghosting lines and planes, you focus too much on accuracy and making sure you hit the end point over confidence. Its important to make sure that the lines are smooth and straight first, the accuracy on hitting the dots will come eventually. To add, do not superimpose the lines or try to add any "correction" lines to it, it only makes it look messy which persists in the following exercises
Ellipses and every exercise relating to it shows that you're still struggling and that's fine. I would add that the ghosting applies still to the ellipses and every exercise/lesson after. Plenty of your ellipses are rigid and barely even an ellipse.There's a few ellipses that shows some confidence in your lines and you drew through it twice or thrice which you did well. Just remember to ghost more often and ghost plenty to show the confidence in the lines to maintain an ellipse form. The funnels were slightly slanted with a similar problem with the ellipses, just like the table of ellipses exercise. But you'll eventually get better on them as you keep doing them as a warmup so don't worry too much about it.
For the boxes, the plotted perspective looks fine although you might need to look into your pen about the messy smudges. Rough perspective, same thing applies, no correction lines on the boxes or superimposing on them, Don't undershoot your lines, many of them barely even hit the end point, again, its better to overshoot even just a little. Besides that, you did a good job in being aware of how the lines should be placed and where they should behave in relation to the horizontal line.
Rotated boxes, you did a decent job with rotating the boxes overall and drew through the boxes properly besides the mentioned correcting lines attempt while still keeping the gaps between the boxes consistent and narrow. And finally for organic perspective, you did a good job with it but try not to make the line so heavily when/if doing them as warmups. Overall, you did fine but there's still plenty of room for improvement for getting the set of parallel lines to converge more consistently.
Overall you did a good, if very messy job.
Next Steps:
I'd like to see 1 page of ghosted planes with ellipses and not a single line superimposed or corrected in sight if you can, please. Use the ghosting method often from the shoulder. It takes a while getting used to it but you'll get there
I feel that my straight lines have improved, although my ellipses have gotten noticeably worse(probably due to lack of practice) I really struggle making elongated ellipses and I still face a tendency to stop my line too early although I believe this is because I lift it when my finger passes rather than when the point has passed the mark.
Apologies for the late reply, things have been busy and my health isn't in the best. So first things first, ellipses must be rounded to the where you should be able to fold them in two symmetrical halves. Also keep confidence > accuracy always. Much of your wobble shows that you lack said confidence. Also always ghost your lines and ellipses, no exceptions. The ghosting method will always remain in use even after you're done with Lesson 1.
Speaking of Lesson 1, I will allow you to move on seeing as how you have improved your line quality and confidence having that most of your lines have little wobble in them. However, I would recommend you to use the ghosted planes with ellipses as part of your 15 minute warmup before doing any drawing to help you further improve in your ellipse work. All in all, a job well done!
Next Steps:
Move onto the 250 box challenge but make sure you're using the past Lesson 1 exercises as your warmups before doing the boxes or anything relating to drawing
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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