Hi,
Thank you for reviewing my work.( I don't have a comfortable work space yet so it was hard to draw with my shoulder ,resulted in me using my elbow unknowingly sometimes. My fineliners sometimes temporarily stopped working so some lines might look like chicken scratches. Also the last two exercises are poorly done sorry for that.)
Lines
Starting with your superimposed lines, these are off to a good start. You're taking the time to line your pen up with the starting point, which has minimised the amount of fraying. You also seem to be accepting and following the trajectory of your lines for the most part, which is great to see.
Next your ghosted lines are okay, they're all a bit small, so it would've been good to have seen a wider variety of lines. Some of them also wobble quite a bit and I suspect you may not be using your shoulders to execute these lines. The ghosted planes definitely show an improvement in confidence and some longer lines as well though I did notice a few of your lines started arcing as you got closer to the edge of the paper, possibly due to your unstable workspace, so try to find somewhere comfortable to work as soon as possible.
Ellipses
Your tables of ellipses are generally well done with a nice variety of different shapes and sizes of ellipses all packed in there tight together. The issue I noticed above with the edges of your paper is definitely present here as I can see you're managing some rather more confident ellipses towards the centre of the paper, whilst the ones towards the edges tend to falter and wobble quite a lot more.
Next, your ellipses in planes are also well done with a good focus on maintaining confident ellipses. You've managed to get the ellipse to hit the four sides of the plane in most instances, which is great to see. Finally, the ellipses in your funnels are generally well aligned to the minor axis. I noticed a lot more variation in the alignment of your ellipses towards the ends of the funnels, possibly due to the fact that the constraints are slightly looser here. Make sure you rotate your paper as needed when doing this exercise as sometimes we have a more comfortable angle for aligning ellipses that may not match what we're used to.
Boxes
You're doing a generally good job keeping your horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line in your rough perspective exercise. Your line confidence took a little bit of a hit here so make sure you're still taking the time to plan, ghost, and execute your lines confidently. Otherwise, your estimation of perspective isn't too far off the mark, and where it strays, it does so in expected ways - e.g. boxes further from the vanishing point tend to be less accurate.
Onto your rotated boxes, where you've done a commendable job keeping everything tight together, which has given you the best chance at rotating your boxes - which you've managed to an extent, though both layers could have been pushed slightly further in rotation. That said, we don't expect students to nail this (or the following) exercise as they're intended as introductions to certain concepts that we will leverage in the box challenge and beyond.
Finally, your organic perspective compositions are coming along nicely. You're starting to capture a sense of depth in each with the variation in the size of your boxes. You can push this illusion further with gaps between your boxes becoming more compressed as they get further away with the ones closer free to overlap but less dense in general. The boxes themselves are a mixed bag with some of them looking quite good while others exhibiting significant divergence however this is why we assign the 250 box challenge in order to give students plenty of opportunity to nail down these issues.
Next Steps:
Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge.
Thank you for the helpful critique .I understood everything you said apart from the organic perspective feedback ,about the gaps and divergence. Could you please help me with that ?
With regards to the gaps, boxes will look smaller and further away from the viewer if the gaps between them are quite small. Notice for instance in this photo, the pillars of the bridge appear to get closer together as they go back in space. Logically we know that they remain the same distance apart from each other but as things get further away, space compresses as it approaches the vanishing point. It's not a big deal if you don't understand it yet since the organic perspective exercise is intended as an introduction to these kinds of concepts and will be something you start to grasp more and more throughout the course.
As for the divergence, this is what happens when the parallel lines of your boxes do not converge evenly towards their shared vanishing point, instead one or two of those lines go towards their own vanishing point. This is something directly covered in the 250 box challenge however.
Thank you for clearing the concept for me . I understand what you meant now.
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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