I did this lesson about a year ago, tough i had to redo some exercises because some of them were uncompleted. I have technically already finished the lessons up until the cylinder challenge, but i didn't submit any of them for critique. So, i'm trying to clear up my work and see if there is anything i might have missed.
Thank you in advance for anybody taking their time to review my work!
Hey Ingeidem!
Awesome job with completing the lesson! It's a big step submitting work for critique and well worth it.
I think the main place where you can improve is in your ellipse creation. For example in the ellipse in planes exercise some of your ellipses break the edges of the plane or don't fully reach the edges. Another thing is that they get a little wobbly meaning you could draw them with more confidence. A way to improve this a lot is by using the ghosting method that Uncomfortable talks about in all of his lessons such that before you draw you prepare your hand and visualize the mark you make before you even make it. This will help to smoothen your ellipses and over time they will become more accurate with practice. I think you did a great job drawing through them however.
Last thing is to make sure your ellipses are aligning to their major and minor axes. In the funnels exercise you did a few of the ellipses are shifting away from the centerlines you drew and are also rotating away from the minor ayes created by that centerline.
Happy drawing!
I am aware my ellipses need some improvement, so i will focus on that when i do warmups.
Thank you for the review!
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