Hey Silhouette! I am paperhat and I will be doing your lesson 1 critique.

My critique will be divided into three sections:

Lines

• Super-imposed lines: Your lines are looking confident and not wobbly. That is great! There is also only fraying on one end which shows me that you take your time doing the exercises and think about where to put done your pen at the beginning. Your longer lines have an arch to them. Arching might happen if you are not using your shoulder pivot. However, it might also happen if you use your shoulder pivot. In that case try to consciously arch in the opposite direction. Try to pay close attention on which pivot your are using. Other than that this looks really great!

• Ghosted Lines: Your lines are, again, very confident looking! They are also pretty accurate already. Some of your lines have a tinsy bit of s-shape to them. But so little it is not really an S, but you can see it got slightly corrected. This is a thing our brains do, however, with more practice and conscious line-making we can out-trick it. Overall this look also very good!

• Ghosted Planes: Again, confident lines, and very accurate as well! You also remembered to place a start and an end point for all your lines, which is great.

Ellipses

• Tables Of Ellipses: Your ellipses are nicely touching and repeated two to three times, that is perfect! (For future reference: two times is preferred) Some are a little over/undershooting, but overall your accuracy here is quite good as well. Your confidence also did not suffer because of that, your ellipses are nicely smooth.

• Ellipses in Planes: The majority of these ellipses is looking confident as well. Some of your ellipses are not touching all 4 sides of the plane, but that is fine. Your confidence and accuracy seems to have already improved since the Tables of Ellipses exercise. Good job!

• Funnels: You placed the minor axis correctly, cutting the ellipses in two halves! Again, your ellipses are drawn confidently and also extremely accurate! Excellent job!

Boxes

• Plotted Perspective: You draw through your boxes and also use hatching to show which planes are facing the viewer. Your hatching is also very neat and makes your boxes look very nice!

• Rough Perspective: You draw through all your boxes and use the line correction method. You also keep the width lines are parallel to the horizon and height lines perpendicular to the horizon. Your lines look mostly confident, here and there is a little s-shape or wobbeling. I can also see that you repeated some lines, please do not do that in the future. No matter how far of a line is, just keep it that way it is. You do a line and then you move on, no matter what (:

• Rotated Boxes: : You keep the corners between boxes close and rotate the boxes. The rotations should be more extreme, but for this point in the time, this is quite good. You also use nice and neat hatching to make your boxes stand out more. One thing you could try on top of that is to use lineweight.

• Organic Perspective: : You have a variety of box sizes and angles and also tried overlapping some boxes. Here you could also use some lineweight to make it clearer which box is in fornt and which is in the back. As with all the task your lines are confident.

You have done really well in this lesson and should be proud of yourself! Onto your next adventure you go :D Good luck with all those boxes!