Overall your lines are the main problem. The hard thing about doing this digitally is that I can't be sure if your program/tablet is acting weird or if you are not drawing it correctly.
On the lines exercises they are extremely wobbly, and should be done more confidently.
The ghosted lines/planes have the same wobble problem, even though they are close to meeting the desired path. You should work first on your fluidity and smoothness and later on accuracy. If you're accurate, but your lines are wobbly, it wont look good.
Same with ellipses, you're being accurate on keeping them consistent and packed together, but the lines are very wobbly.
The plotted perspective is great. The rough perspective is ok perspective-wise, but very wobbly lines.
Your rotated boxes are impressive, you really got close to nailing the overall shape, but again, your lines are very wobbly, so it doesn't look as appealing.
And for the organic perspective, it feels a bit rushed... By looking at your rotated boxes, I'd imagine this exercise would have great perspective applied, but it got a bit weird in some cubes there.
Main point here is about the lines. Work on them. Also... take your time to do the exercises. No need to rush.
Next Steps:
Before moving on to the boxes challenge, try to re-do some of the line exercises. Superimposed lines and ghosted planes would be great warmups for you.
When you feel like you improved on that, try a bit of the ellipses just to make sure you can keep the smoothness there, and then you can move on to the 250 Box Challenge
Thank you. I'll work on that line. Already done a few pages of the 250 boxes challenge so I'll make the changes on next page
Lines
Your lines are accurate but seem to wobble.
Prioritize confidence over accuracy.
Try to draw them with confidence using the shoulder as pivot. One of the techniques that helped me is observing if I am using my shoulder as pivot when I am ghosting over the points and then drawing the line confidently. You might get a sore shoulder after this.
If you used the four points method to draw planes in the ghosted planes method, then its good. I cant see the points from my small screen so if you didn't plot the points first then I recommend you do that exercise again.
Always plot the points first and then draw the lines using the ghost method.
Ellipses
Your ellipses are good. They are smooth and within bounds in all of your exercises except for a few ellipses which are unsymmetrical about the minor axis in the funnels exercise.
Boxes
Your plotted perspective looks good. The rough perspective looks good as well but the lines wobble in this case as well. The rotating boxes also look good. Your organic perspective has depth and the lines in this exercise are more confident than your other exercises.
That is all I have for you.
Next Steps:
I recommend you complete the 250 box challenge first to build confidence and then move on to lesson two afterwards.
Ok lines got it. I'll work on that wobbly lines
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