Hello nopikaya!
Overall, nice work!
Lines are mostly confident, with smooth strokes, indicating shoulder usage. There are a few instances where the lines wobbleor arc towards the target point. For these exercises, it’s ok if the accuracy is slightly off. A smooth and consistent line that is a little off is better than an accurate but wobbly line. Here’s a little bit more information on the different levels of success for lines.
Your ellipses start off a bit wobbly and hesitant, but they definitely improve as you continue through the exercises. They are more smooth and even in your planes and funnels exercises. There are still moments of wobbliness, but this is something that will continue to improve as you keep practicing the ghosting method with your shoulder and committing through your ellipses. In the funnels, the ellipses generally align with the minor axis. Also, nice job drawing through your ellipses appropriately, 2-3 times.
In your box exercises, the lines generally remain smooth and confident. There are times when they become wobbly, basically similar to what was pointed out in the lines section above. Also, some lines are being repeated/corrected. As tempting as it is and even if you know the line is or looks incorrect, do not correct an errant line.
Rough perspective:
The convergences towards the horizon lines aren’t too bad. Generally, the horizontal lines are parallel to the horizon lines and vertical lines are perpendicular to the horizon line. Some of these lines, however, go slightly off diagonally.
Rotated Boxes:
Congratulations on completing this exercise! The boxes along the horizontal axis appear to be rotating, but those along the vertical lines and moving out towards the corners are not quite rotating. Good job drawing through your boxes and keeping them pretty well neighbored to each other.
Organic Perspective:
You’re off to a good start. Well done on maintaining the boxes along the path you’ve laid out. As the boxes move along the path, they get smaller, conveying a sense that they are moving away from the viewer. In terms of perspective, there are some divergence issues, where a plane that’s farther away appears to be larger. But don’t fret; this is something you will have more exposure with and learn more in the 250 box challenge!
So, congratulations on completing Lesson 1!
Next Steps:
Continue to use these exercises as part of your warm ups.
Feel free to move on to the 250 box challenge.
Thank you very much for your critique! It's very helpful for me. I will continue doing warm ups, like you recommended and i hope I'll be getting better with my lines and perspective!
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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