Greetings. English is not my first language so I apologize in advance if something I write sounds weird. Also this is my first time giving a critique, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
Lines - On the superimposed lines exercises you have fraying on both ends, that is, the line shouldn't fray on the starting dot, so place the pen carefully on the beginning of the line so that doesn't happen. On the ghosted lines exercise, the lines are overall pretty confident and straight so that's good. On some of the lines in the ghosted planes exercise I notice that a bit of arching on the lines happen, sometimes this happen when we don't use the shoulder to draw the line. For the wobbly lines, you just need to keep working on the confidence of the stroke itself.
Ellipses - On the ellipses, sometimes they are going out of the bounds and on the second page there are some of the ellipsed that are not touching each other, so focus more on achieving the shape to fit on the bounds. One the funnels exercise there is one drawing in which the ellipses are not touching
Boxes - Now to the boxes. On the rough perspective exercise and going forward the lines are more wobbly, so again, try to focus on the confidence of the lines for now, accuracy will come with time. Also on the rough perspective, width lines should be parallel to horizon and height lines perpendicular to horizon, this is really hard to achieve in this exercise but you should keep this in mind. On the rotated boxes they are actually rotating and are close to each other, which is good, but the lines are wobbly. In regard to the perspective it's normal to have mistakes on these exercises and is best to work on that moving to the boxes challenge.
So I think this is what I had to say. I hope this third party review could be of any help. I am also starting with this course now and I am also making a few of these mistakes I talked about, so I'm sorry if I don't have much to offer in terms of additional knowledge. If anyone with more experience can help that would also be great.
Next Steps:
I think you got the basic concepts, but you need to work on the confidence of the lines and the perspective. So be conscious and focus on that when moving to the 250 boxes challenge. Also, I recommend to keep doing the exercises on lesson 1 as warm ups to keep training your line quality
Thank you so much! Yes, I agree with your observations. Ever since I posted my homework up for revision I've been working on fixing my mistakes, so I think I've gotten better at drawing confidently. Again, thank you so much for taking your time to give me a critique.
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