Don't be too bummed out! Even if the results aren't great, you're learning which is the important thing. Good on you for sending it for critique anyways. On that note you did a generally nice job with lesson 1, but here are some things to keep in mind.
First, this isn't really a drawing thing, but to make it easier for people like me to critique you please try to put the exercises in order next time. On imgur you can reorder the images once you upload them. It just helps people critiquing your work to see your progression and makes it a little more organized.
Lines
They improve over the set, but throughout the set you have a lot of wobbly lines. Remember that drawing confident lines is more important than drawing them accurately, so always focus on confidence over accuracy.
Your lines are arching a bit, so just make sure you're using the shoulder pivot. If you're still having difficulty while doing the pivot, you can try to fix it by trying to arch consciously to the opposite direction.
You plotted your lines throughout most of the set which is great! But, near the end, especially organic perspective, it looks like you stopped. Starting a line with a starting and ending dot is important for applying the ghosting method, and that it should not be skipped.
You did mostly a good job of not repeating lines, but there are still some repeated lines throughout especially on the hard exercises near the end of the set. No matter how off a line is, you shouldn’t repeat it, you should keep the line as if it were correct and move on.
There is also a little bit of fraying of your lines when you go over them specifically in the your curved lines in the superimposed line exercise. Fraying at the end is normal, but there shouldn’t really be any at the starting point so try to be mindful of starting at the same point every time.
Ellipses
Here as well mainly a good job. Your ellipses are a bit wobbly. Don't forget to prioritize confidence over accuracy on ellipses too.
On the ellipse tables, keeping the ellipses should be kept within the bounds, each ellipse touching each other, without overlapping.
Your funnels look really good, but the spacing is a little off, just try to make sure like the ellipse table they're all touching each other. However, you've aligned them to the center axis well and they have degree of the ellipses gets bigger at a good rate, so nice job with that.
Boxes
Again, generally solid work just like with the line exercises remember not to repeat lines no matter how off they are. I know these exercises are difficult. They are meant to challenge you. The reasoning behind not repeating lines and using a fineliner is to force you to be thoughtful about making marks as they become permanent.
On rough perspective, width lines should be parallel to the horizon and height lines perpendicular to the horizon. I know this can be difficult, but try your best to keep them aligned.
Your rotated boxes is pretty off from the ends so make sure to plan a little better, but the corners and actual rotation of the boxes looks good.
Rotated boxes and organic perspective have a few perspective issues, but generally look pretty nice, and you'll be doing 250 boxes next which will really help with that, so no need to stress about that.
Overall though nice job! I've outlined the next steps below.
Next Steps:
First off, congratulations on finishing lesson 1! Your next step is the 250 box challenge.
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 submissions.
-Doing critiques is a good way of learning and solidifying concepts. Critiquing can help expose your own gaps in knowledge and is a great review.
-Current submissions are also super high. If you do some critiques, those would be less critiques myself and others have to do before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster. The new system ordering submissions also makes it so that the more agrees your critiques have the higher you'll be placed in the queue of submissions, which will improve your chances of getting critiques faster as well.
It's totally optional of course, but me and others who are critiquing would appreciate it if you gave it a shot.
There's a really awesome community member named Elodin who critiqued my lesson 1 and most of the credit for the critiquing framework I used goes to him. He made a pretty useful guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions here.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to. I certainly felt that way and didn't start critiquing until a few months after I completed lesson 1, but once I started it helped a lot. Since you've completed lesson 1 you shouldn't feel like you aren't ready.
Good luck on the box challenge, and keep up the good work!
Thank you for the critique! I'll certainly work on my lines :)
When it comes to technical drawing, there's no one better than Scott Robertson. I regularly use this book as a reference when eyeballing my perspective just won't cut it anymore. Need to figure out exactly how to rotate an object in 3D space? How to project a shape in perspective? Look no further.
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