Hi, congrats on finishing lesson one! I think this is a great submission, but there are certainly things we can address to help you direct your practice where its really needed.
First off, your lines are a bit wobbly. From early homework peices to the later ones they definately seemed to improve which is great to see, but they still werent perfectly straight. Honestly, straight lines are hard. I think the most important thing is to accept that no matter what you do, your line could very well turn out wrong. Once your pen is on the page, you no longer have any control over where it goes; all you can do is move your arm quickly and smoothly. Your line will likely miss its target, and it might arc a little, but thats totally fine as you can practice working that out later. As of right now though, your #1 priority is a straight, smooth line.
Your elipses are much more smooth. A few here and there are a little misshapen, but that will come with practice. Unfortunately theres not a lot of advice I can give here.
On your rough perspective boxes, a few of the boxes dont have lines that arent perfectly vertical/horizontal. This is a really tricky thing to get right as the mistakes made are usually really subtle. A line might be just a couple degrees off and it will look fine, but once you try to draw the back face of the box its waaay off. The most important thing here is to plot your points. Every line should be planed with points. Picture the line between the points, ghost it a couple times, and picture it again. If it looks off, replot the points. A few stray dots arent going to ruin a box, but wonkey perspective will.
On your rotated boxes, your boxes are tight together which is awesome to see as it helps you use information from neibouring boxes to help. As the boxes get further away from the centre, the far end of the face should shrink more and more. You did great with this on the horizontal and vertical boxes, but the four boxes to the corners of the center box didnt go as well. Its important to remember that on those boxes there are TWO sides that get further and should shrink, so you should end up with a box face that looks more like a diamond than a square.
Finally theres the orgainic perspective which you said you had trouble with. I think you have the opposite problem here as you did in the rough perspective: now that the boxes are in 3 point perspective, a lot of your lines are too paralell. Luckily the solution is the same: plot every single point, ghost every line to that point, and plot again if you need to. Another trick for 3 point boxes is to actually find the vanishing points. There wont be any when you just have the Y, so your first two lines are pretty free so long as they converge a little. But as soon as you have a pair of lines you also have a vanishing point, so follow your lines and find it, and put a dot on it to help you remember what your aiming for. A lot of the times it will be off the page. I put a dot on my right thumbnail (Im left-handed) and keep it where it needs to be.
Your about to grind out 250 boxes, and thats likely all the practice youll need with your perspective. Id suggest doing a bunch of ghosted lines and super-imposing them as a 15 minute warmup whenever you go to draw your boxes. That should help straighten up your lines. Best of luck!
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All 250 of those glorius boxes.
Nice work. You're on the way to line confidence a little wobblines though. You may be overthinking the lines accuracy once you put down the pen and rely a bit on your wrist and fingers. So I recommend warming up with superimposing your ghosted lines to get used to not looking at perfect accuracy but keeping the muscle memory.
Your ellipses are confident but you may not have ghosted properly and tried to correct the connections on the second loop. Try to ghost the ellipse one loop and stop then ghost again until you get it close then let your hand do it's thing once you put your pen down.
Your rough perspective are getting you the practice to think further than the line and you'll get more of that in the 250 box challenge
The rotated boxes needs a bit of reviewing because your boxes are changing sizes inconsistently, 1 box away from the center seemed to get bigger then the next it was drastically the opposite. Keep in mind the sizes of the closest box. You're not only rotating the box but moving it away from the center
And in your organic perspective, you'll study a bit more about that with the 250 box challenge. Keep it up!
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Nice work. Your lines are towards it's way to confidence, just a little wobblines though which can be fixed by ghosting a bit more and removing your mind's decisions once you put the pen down to do the final.
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These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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