Hi Dvant, congrats on finishing lesson 1! I’ll be handling your critique relying on the guide provided here: https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ

First off, as a general comment, please avoid pushing the contrast / brightness on your pictures too much in the future, it makes the quality of your lines harder to assess and some parts of them even disappear. Remember, the easier it is for the person critiquing you to see the mistakes that you’ve made, the most you’ll get from the critique.

With that out of the way, the rest of my critique will be divided in 3 sections: lines, ellipses and boxes. Let’s get started!

1. Lines section

Starting with the superimposed lines exercise, I am seeing some fraying on both ends of your lines. Fraying on one end is completely ok and will get better with practice, fraying on both ends however can be avoided by taking your time and carefully putting down your pen at the beginning of your line, so please pay attention to that in future warmups!

As for the ghosted lines exercise, your lines look confidently drawn and the dots I’m seeing indicate that you planned them correctly using the ghosting method, so good job! They’re all pretty short, but fortunately you made up for that in the ghosted planes exercise, where I’m seeing some nice big planes. Next time you attempt the ghosted lines exercise in future warmups though please try to really push yourself to draw longer lines!

Your lines do get wobblier in the exercises involving boxes. This is perfectly normal and will get better with practice, but always remember that confidence should be prioritized over accuracy. A confident but inaccurate line will always be more correct than a wobbly but accurate one.

2. Ellipses section

From what I’m seeing you are drawing through your ellipses 2-3 times as instructed and keeping them pretty tight, so good job on that! In the table of ellipses exercise, they look confidently drawn and are nicely symmetrical for the most part. You also did a good job fitting them all snugly against one another and experimented with different sizes, however I’m not seeing much degree variation, so in future warmups I’d like you to experiment with that a little more.

You did a good job fitting your ellipses inside your planes as well. Most of them don’t look very symmetrical, but that is also to be expected and will get better with practice. As for lines, remember to draw from your shoulder and keep in mind that confidence will always be more important than accuracy. When doing this exercise in the future, something you can try out is focusing on having the ellipse reach 2 opposite corners of the plane rather than its sides, and trying its major axis with the diagonal of the plane going through said corners. You’ll see that even the thinnest ellipse can easily reach all corners and fit inside a plane that way, and you can experiment with different shapes. See example here: https://ibb.co/album/zhKcZD

Your ellipses aren’t very well aligned with the minor axis in your ellipses in funnels exercise, so try to pay attention to that in the future. I'll request one more page of this exercise as a revision, since this is something that will be very important in future lessons. If you feel comfortable enough, you can try varying the degree of your ellipses in this exercise as well.

3. Boxes section

A general comment about hatching: as indicated in the lesson material, hatching is optional so when you decide to do it, be sure to do it with forethought and care. Each hatching stroke is to be treated like any other line, that is, it should be done using the ghosting method. I’m seeing some scribbling instead of proper hatching on some of your boxes, so please keep ths in mind for the 250 box challenge as well as for future lessons.

Remember that in the rough perspective exercise, your width lines should be parallel to the horizon line and your height lines should be perpendicular to it. That is not the case for some of your boxes, it does get better by your last attempt so it seems to me like you’ve corrected that mistake by yourself as you went on, however I’d like you to do one more attempt as a revision (that is, 1/3 of a page), just to make sure. You may apply hatching to your boxes if you wish, keeping my earlier comment in mind.

Good job on your rotated boxes exercise, that one’s not easy and you have a good amount of rotation in my opinion. However, you did not draw through all of your boxes as instructed (that is, drawing each of the 3 sets of parallel lines that constitute the box, even the lines that would not be visible if the box was solid). Your boxes are also very small so for future lessons, please remember to always try and take up as much space as possible on your page, the bigger the drawing the better.

Good job on varying the angle and size of your boxes in the organic perspective exercise, in future attempts however take care to apply some foreshortening and have the 3 sets of parallel lines converge, even slightly. You can also apply some subtle lineweight to the silhouette of your boxes to clarify which ones are in the front. I’m also seeing that you repeated some lines on one of your boxes, so please remember that a line should never be repeated, however off it is and however tempting it may be.

That’s the end of this critique! It was all in all a solid submission, so as soon as you reply to this with your revisions you’ll be free to move on to the 250 boxes challenge. Good luck on the rest of your drawing journey, stay motivated!