glad I'm finally like, practicing doing precise and confident lines, it's a skill I've just been building slowly over time but it's still kind of a weakness, as in, how and where I want my ellipses to go, what shape do I want, my grip on 3D form is lacking too.. and yea I feel these exercises are really going to help with that.
That looks pretty good.
You have a hard time with the superimposed Lines with the long one but I have the same problem so I'm not sure how to help you with that.
I feel like you could have been more careful with the longer lines in the ghosted lines exercise though. Some of them are curvy and I think you should be able to correct that with some practice.
The ellipses look good to me.
Seeing the last exercise it looks like you have a pretty good understanding about perspective so that's good for you :)
Next Steps:
I think you could go directly to the Lesson 2 without doing the 250 boxes challenge. If you feel like it, it's always a plus though.
Yesss, I've practiced perspective for a while now (and that I usually doodle boxes when I'm out of things to doodle lol), I still want to try checking my mistakes with the 250 box challenge tho, see if I can better the common mistakes of my boxes, it's worth it since I use boxes a lot to check the structure on the things I do.
And yea, my superimposed long lines are kinda messed up but they've actually improved a bit from those first ones by doing the little warm ups, my lines still usually go unpredictably, curvy or just the wrong way so I'll keep these things in mind. thanks for the critique!
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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