Hi there, Nicolaslaslas!

Overall, you’ve done a pretty decent job.

Lines

Your lines admittedly start off a little hesitant, where they generally wobble. To note, confidence should take precedence and be prioritized before accuracy. It’s ok that the lines aren’t fully accurate, as it is imperative to first develop the shoulder muscle memory to draw out smooth, confident strokes. So continue to ghost and execute every line with your shoulder. Essentially, a confident stroke that is slightly inaccurate is better than an accurate but wobbly line. With that said, however, I notice some improvement in your planes and boxes! So keep on that path!

In the planes exercise, you do a great job of plotting (placing dots) down the corners. However, the bisecting lines are not always plotted out. Dots are a powerful tool to help establish the trajectory, and best yet, you can move the dots before you commit to and execute the line.

Ellipses

Ellipses are also off to a wobbly start. They also turn sharply as you fit your ellipses in their allotted spaces. This causes the ellipses to be misshaped. Ellipses are certainly challenging, and it will take mileage to gain confidence. Just as with lines, focus first on developing confident smooth strokes with your shoulder. Then work on maintaining its roundedness, and then accuracy last. You may also want to experiment a little with the speed at which you are drawing. Drawing too slowly can also cause wobbliness.

Ellipses in the funnels are generally aligned to the minor axis. As you continue to practice these in your warm ups, try varying the ellipses’ degree.

Another thing to note is you are drawing through your ellipses, which is great. However, be careful to not draw them through too many times. 2-3 times is acceptable, but no more and no less.

Boxes

As you continue to go through your boxes, there are some nice confident lines. There is still a fair share of hesitant lines, so remember to take your time planning, ghosting, and executing with your shoulder. But as I mentioned previously, I see improvements.

I also notice there are lines being repeated/corrected. No matter how tempting it is to correct an errant line, do not correct or repeat over it to correct it. You are using dots to plan out your target, which is great. But once you draw down your line, stick to it, no matter how wrong it is.

Rough Perspective

A couple of things to keep in mind for this exercise:

• Horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line

• Vertical lines should be perpendicular to the horizon line

While there are plenty of evidence you are doing this (which is certainly a challenge in itself!), there are some lines that stray off diagonally.

Rotated Boxes

First, kudos on getting through most of the exercise! Don’t be afraid to tackle the corner boxes. Nice job rotating the boxes along the horizontal axis. However, the boxes on the vertical axis are actually not rotating, meaning the boxes are sharing a similar or the same vanishing point as the box adjacent to it. As the boxes move outwards, there is quite a bit of guessing going on. To help establish where to place the next box, use the lines of the adjacent boxes to guide the placement and slightly shift the vanishing point to create some rotation. Nonetheless, there’ll be plenty of opportunities to work with boxes in the near future! This is a just a start to get you thinking about how the forms interact with one another in 3D space. Also, great job drawing through your boxes.

Organic Perspective

As the boxes get slightly smaller on the path, you’ve conveyed a sense that they move away from the viewer.

In terms of perspective, there are some sets of parallel lines that diverge away, making planes that are further away appear to get larger instead of slightly smaller. But no worries, you’ll have plenty of practice in the 250 Box Challenge!

With that, I'll mark this lesson as complete.