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2:35 PM, Sunday July 25th 2021

From looking at your work so far I would suggest that you need to just do one exercise everyday. That is drawing straight lines point to point, using ghosting. Do this every day filling up a page of A4 at least.

Your lines at the moment aren't good enough to make the subsequent exercises useful. They are too wobbly and sketchy. Once you nail that, then move on to the next one.

Pace is a thing that isn't often mentioned, but trying to rush through without nailing the basics to a good standard just means that problems compound. Take your time but practice everday if you can. Compare your lines to some professionally critiqued submissions and see how they compare. Not expecting that your lines should like like they are drawn with a ruler but they should be getting reasonably close before you move on. IMO.

6:44 AM, Monday July 26th 2021
edited at 6:58 AM, Jul 26th 2021

So warm up with ghosted planes?

edited at 6:58 AM, Jul 26th 2021
9:58 AM, Monday July 26th 2021

Straight lines or ghosted planes would be suitable. The goal is to be able to draw straight lines from point to point confidently. Yours tend to taper and veer towards the end, almost like you are flicking your pen rather than maintaining that control and confidence. The perspective exercises depend on being able to read a straight line to a vanishing point.

I don't want you to get bored but it is well worth trying to get good line accuracy before tackling complex exercises like rotated boxes.

https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/rotatedboxes

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