Let's go! Good job on getting through lesson 1, you've made it a lot farther than many will. A few notes:
Your penmanship is pretty good, though I'd say look out for that fraying on both ends of the superimposed lines -- that implies you might be rushing. I see some wobble on your ghosted lines, but that seems like it sorted itself out pretty quickly (your ghosted planes are lovely btw) and further practice will obviously help.
The biggest hangup I see right now is your perspective skills. It seems like you have a tendency to flatten things out to isometric perspective (see your organic perspective, where almost all of the sets of lines don't converge). It's also visible in your box rotation, where the overall shape is very square where it's supposed to take on an almost circular silhouette. It's really really really important in perspective drawing to have at least one axis converging. You also seem to be afraid of placing boxes on the horizon line, but it's very important to understand how boxes in perspective operate being simultaneously above and below your eyeline.
I have a feeling the box challenge and its tutorial will help you out a lot with this, so make sure you pay really close attention to it.
Good luck on the rest of the course!
Next Steps:
During your preliminary 15-minute warmups (which I really hope you're doing every day!) I'd suggest adding in some plotted perspective (in 1, 2, and 3 point perspective), and paying close attention to how the lines look under various distances between vanishing points and distance to the horizon line.
Thank you for your feedback, it is much appreciated! I'm still learning the ins and outs of perspective but of course, practice makes perfect! I was curious as to feedback regarding my ellipse exercises and if I am clear to move onto the 250 box challenge. Any other comments or feedback is welcomed!
Thank you for your time!
This is my first time giving/receiving critiques on this site, but I selected that I think your work is complete and it looks like 2 people need to mark that they agree for you to get the completion badge.
I submitted my own work yesterday and am currently awaiting community feedback, but if it takes too long I'm just gonna move on and I'd suggest you do the same if you don't get completion in like a week's time, because it doesn't seem worth it to me to lose the momentum.
On your ellipses -- they look pretty good and you definitely seem to understand the ghosting method. I'm struggling with getting clean ellipses myself so I can't help too much but I'd just say make sure your move is as locked in as you can before you put the pen down, so as you go around twice you don't end up making two different ellipses.
While you're waiting on feedback, don't forget your daily warmups and 50% rule!
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