Hello, I will be critiquing your Lesson 1 work
Lines
To begin with, your superimposed lines are starting off great. It's a good thing that you are starting off from a defined point and keeping the wavering at one end. I do see that your lines are arching a bit, so keep in mind that you must use your shoulder while doing linework. With more practice, all of this should improve.
Moving onto ghosted lines, I can see that you drew these with a great deal of confidence. One thing I want to point out is that some of your lines are overreaching the point, but this should improve given some time and practice.
Also, if you do end up missing the endpoint, make sure not to redraw the line more than once or try to "fix" anything.
For the ghosted planes, these rules also apply. I notice in some areas that you may have tried to fix and redraw lines if you made a mistake. Make sure to commit to your lines even if they don't meet the goal.
Ellipses
Your tables of Ellipses are looking great, as you made them relatively symmetrical and tidy. I do have something to point out, however. It is required that you draw through your ellipses only 2-3 times, preferably 2. Try not to go over this limit; otherwise, good job.
Next is your funnel exercise. I notice that you also drew through some of your ellipses more than what is required, so keep what I said above in mind. I also see that you are having a bit of trouble aligning your ellipses with the axis and keeping them tidy inside the funnel. This is something that you should improve on with warmups.
For the ellipses in planes, make sure to keep the shapes symmetrical.
Boxes
From your rough perspective, the linework is relatively confident in some areas. However, I see that you are repeating lines more than once and extending lines that did not meet their goal. This is something that you want to avoid since accuracy is not prioritized in these lessons. Your focus should be on correctly ghosting and executing your lines.
For your rotated boxes, I am seeing the same issues as well. Repeating lines are not allowed unless you are trying to add lineweight, which should be done with only one other ghosted line, not multiple.
Organic perspective adheres to all the rules I stated above, and with more practice, these should also improve.
Make sure to use these in your warmups and good luck with future lessons!
Next Steps:
Move onto the 250 Box Challenge
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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