Hey! I’ll be looking through this~
Starting off, your superimposed lines look good. There’s the occasional altered trajectory though, so be mindful of that. I also notice a little hook at the end of them, so I’d recommend taking a second to make sure your pen is fully off the page before dragging it back to the starting point. The ghosted lines look good. The planes start off a little sloppy, but improve considerably by page 2. Still, I’d recommend using start/end points for your non-diagonal center lines, too.
Moving on to the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise is quite nicely done, but their degrees/tilts aren’t always consistent within a frame. There’s also the issue of the rotations not lining up, but that’s something that’ll improve as you do more of these. On the ellipses in planes, and particularly on the funnels exercise, you’ll go around your ellipses a little too much. Try not to, if you can help it. Also, for the funnels, spend a little more time lining up your ellipse to the minor axis. That’s the point of the exercise, so it’s important to get it right.
Finally, the box section looks really good, too. I do notice some automatic reinforcing, though, so I’ll quickly mention that you shouldn’t redo lines. If a line is wrong, it’s wrong. Spend more time on the next one. Also, and you’ll find this in the common mistakes section, too: the boxes in the rotated boxes exercise don’t quite rotate. That’s not an issue, though. The goal is to attempt the exercise, and you have. The organic perspective exercise looks really good, and I’m especially pleased to see that you’ve included the back-sides of all of your boxes. This isn’t required for this exercise, but it’s always nice to see the student go above and beyond, and it’ll transition nicely into the challenge, too.
Congrats on completing this lesson. I’m happy to mark it as compete.
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250 Box Challenge
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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