Hello there!

Lines

Your lines are overall pretty confident and smooth. There are some that wobble wobble as you draw towards the targeted point. 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, be careful that you take the time to start and align your pen right at the plotted dot. While yes, you have smooth and confident strokes, there is a lot of overshooting on both starting and end points of your plotted dots. This continues throughout your boxes. Even if accuracy isn’t a priority at this time, there should at the very least be a solid starting point. I feel you may be rushing or drawing at a quick speed, so try to slow it down a bit. You want to develop a speed that you can control and have confident lines with. This will take some time, as you continue to develop your shoulder muscle memory. Then once you get that down, you can start to work on reducing overshooting at the end by lifting the pen up the moment you hit that end point.

Ellipses

There are some decently done ellipses that are confident, round, and drawn through fairly tightly. There are others that are really loose and at times turn sharply as you fit them in their allotted space. So just as with lines, try to experiment with speed; slow it down some (not so much that it gets wobbly). 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. Aim to draw through each ellipse fully 2 times through (3 is acceptable, but no more than that). In some moments, you end the ellipse with a straight tail or hook away from the original form. As you’re coming to the end of drawing the ellipse, lift your pen while you continue to motion the ellipse instead of away from the ellipse.

Boxes

Before I delve into the specific exercises, I wanted to bring up another point about lines (aside from what was aforementioned about starting points). Generally, your lines are repeated/corrected. No matter how tempting it is to correct an errant line, do not correct or reinforce it. You’re using dots to plan out your marks, so that’s great! But once you draw that line, stick to it even if it’s wrong.

Rough perspective

The boxes are admittedly start off rushed and messy in the first panel, so it’s a little difficult to discern what is happening. But I can get a better sense of your lines thereafter, despite it still feeling rushed.

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

Rotating boxes

First, great job getting through this exercise. Unfortunately, it’s honestly hard to follow the lines to see exactly what’s going on. While I see moments where you shifted the vanishing points to rotate the boxes (I’m looking at the outer boxes on the major axes), there is so much repeated/corrected lines to establish any true connection. The extra lines break the form, meaning the boxes no longer appear to be boxes. Despite this, I do want to point out that your hatching lines are pretty decently done. They are generally confident, tight, consistent and parallel to each other. Moreover, there are clear starting and end points, which is what we want for ALL lines.

Organic perspective

As the boxes move away in space (away from the viewer) they get slightly smaller, so nice job with that. 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. There are also some dramatic foreshortening occurring, which for this exercise we want to avoid. But no worries, you’ll get to delve into this more in the 250 box challenge.

In conclusion, I think the submission felt rather rushed, particularly the line marking as I've mentioned throughout. Before you move on to the next challenge (if you haven’t already done so), I’d like to see 1 more page of ghosted planes. Remember, take your time planning, ghosting, and executing the line.