Hi NIDDLER!
Nice job with Lesson 1! Overall, you're off to a pretty good start.
Lines:
Your strokes are mostly executed with confidence and have nice continuous flow to them. There is some wobbliness/arcing present, but this will improve with enough practice. Just remember to take your time to ghost every line, and that confidence should be prioritized over accuracy. Once you eliminate wobbling in your lines and draw good lines consistently, you will be able to focus more on planning out their direction and thus, work on accuracy.
Ellipses:
Ellipses are generally drawn with confidence, with some wobbling present however. Some of them are not fully drawn through, and some are drawn through 4 times or more. Continue to execute your ellipses with confidence and draw through them 2 or 3 times (2 is preferable). I also get the impression that you rushed a little bit while completing the Tables of ellipses exercise, because it looks somewhat messy as compared to your Ellipses in planes and Funnels exercises. Try not to rush in the future, we're not here for the quantity. Give yourself enough time to plan your mark before you commit to it and execute it. And if you feel that you can't concentrate anymore, give yourself a break and continue next day.
Your accuracy is actually pretty good, many of the ellipses fit their allotted spaces quite nicely. Just remember that, again, we prioritize confidence over accuracy. Once you have a habit of drawing your ellipses with confidence, you can commit yourself to solving the accuracy problem and focus on it more.
On funnels, the ellipses are generally aligned to the minor axis, with a few exceptions. Some of them tilt slightly and lose their symmetry, try to avoid that in the future.
Boxes:
As you go through your boxes, I notice that your lines remain confident. Continue working on your line quality and execute lines with confidence. Don't be afraid to apply line weight, all it takes is enough time to ghost the new line over the line that you've already put on paper. Usually one line over the initial one is enough to add line weight. You generally commit to the lines you've made and don't try to correct them, which is a great habit, keep that up! Continue to plan out your dots and commit to the lines you make, even if you make a mistake.
Rough perspective:
Try to focus more on keeping the width lines parallel to the horizon and height lines perpendicular to the horizon, because there are some mistakes with that. The convergence mistakes aren't too bad, so good job overall.
Rotating boxes:
Nice job with the exercise! You've managed to rotate the boxes successfully, so congratulations. They are also well neighboured and drawn through. The boxes at the corners of the composition are missing, but I don't see it as a major problem, just keep these in mind next time when you attempt this exercise.
Organic perspective:
Overall, well done. The boxes feel rather solid, and you generally manage to convey the feeling that they go further away from the viewer. There are some instances where the size difference in a line of boxes is not that obvious or, in contrary, too drastic, so I suggest that you attempt this exercise again and try to make the change in size more smooth, sort of like table 3 on page 2. There are also some mistakes with convergences, but don't worry about it, you'll have plenty of opportunities to practice that during the 250 boxes challenge.
With that said, congratulations on completing Lesson 1!
Next Steps:
Continue doing exercises from Lesson 1 as part of your warm-ups (10-15 mins).
Feel free to move on to the 250 Box Challenge.
Don’t forget to take breaks and draw for fun!
I also encourage you to critique other members of the community who completed Lesson 1 if you feel like it. This is an optional step, but this way you can help other people to get better at drawing, as well as reinforce your own knowledge of the material. Here's the guide made by Elodin on critiquing Lesson 1: https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ
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.
On the flipside, they tend to be on the cheaper side of things, so if you're just getting started (beginners tend to have poor pressure control), you're probably going to destroy a few pens - going cheaper in that case is not a bad idea.
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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