Hi Vapz, congrats on finishing lesson 1! I’ll be handling your critique relying on the guide provided here: https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ

My critique will be divided in 3 sections: lines, ellipses and boxes. Let’s get started !

1. Lines section

First off, starting with your superimposed lines exercise, I’m seeing little to no fraying on the first end of your lines, which shows that you have executed this exercise with patience and care, so good job! Fraying on the other end is completely ok and will get better with practice.

In the ghosted lines and ghosted planes exercise I’m seeing dots on the page, which indicates that you used the ghosting method correctly. Starting a line with a starting and ending dot is important and should never be skipped, even in exercises where you’ll be focusing on other things. Your lines do have a bit of wobble, which is to be expected and will get better with practice, but please always keep in mind that confidence should be prioritized over accuracy. A confident but inaccurate line will always be more correct than a wobbly but accurate one. I also like the fact that you pushed yourself to draw very long lines in the ghosted lines exercise.

2. Ellipses section

I see that you are drawing through your ellipses 2-3 times as instructed, they also look nicely symmetrical and tight for the most part, good job! They’re a little wobbly, so as for lines keep in mind that confidence should always be prioritized over accuracy. In the table of ellipses exercise, I like that you experimented with varying sizes and degrees, you also managed to fit your ellipses snugly against each other.

Your ellipses in planes are looking somewhat egg-ish sometimes, as you struggled to have them reach all sides of the plane, so something that you can try out is focusing on having the ellipse reach 2 opposite corners of the plane rather than its sides, and trying its major axis with the diagonal of the plane going through said corners. You’ll see that even the thinnest ellipse can easily reach all corners and fit inside a plane that way. See example here: https://ibb.co/album/zhKcZD

Your ellipses are mostly aligned with the minor axis in the ellipses in funnels exercise, though some of them are a bit skewed, so keep paying attention to it in future warmups. Next time you attempt this exercise, please also try drawing more arched lines on the sides in order to have more size variation in your ellipses. You can also try widening their degree as you progress towards the sides.

3. Boxes section

In the rough perspective exercise, there are some instance where the width lines aren’t parallel to the horizon line and the height lines aren’t perpendicular to it (it is very obvious in the 2nd panel of your 2nd page, leftmost box for example), so pay attention to that in future warmups while planning your lines using the ghosting method.

The rotated boxes exercise is a tricky one, but I feel like you’ve maybe rushed this one a bit and didn’t draw the base of your boxes with enough forethought, using the ghosting method. You also did not draw the squares at both ends of both axes as instructed. Please remember that the sides of boxes that are next to each other should be quite close to each other as well as parallel. I highlighted a few pairs of lines that should be close & parallel in red and also tried to show how the planes at the bottom of your boxes should look here: https://ibb.co/ZMVhXtB

Here are also some observations on the work of another student that might help: https://ibb.co/album/MBypM0

I’m going to ask you for one more page of this exercise as a revision so I’d also definitely recommend reading through the instructions + watching the video for this exercise one more time. Please reach out if you have any questions or if some things aren’t clear enough.

Very good work on the organic perspective exercise, I’m seeing some nice size variation as well as overlap there and it gives off a real 3d feeling. However please be careful of always having the lines of your boxes converge towards the vanishing points, as I’m seeing some diverging lines there.

That’s the end of this critique! It was all in all a solid submission, and I’m sorry to ask you for more work, but I feel that this is necessary before letting you move on to the 250 boxes challenge. Above all, stay motivated and committed!

I'll answer since lefebul didn't reply! Overall you've made good progress so I'll mark this as complete. Only thing is that you repeated some lines, make sure you never repeat lines even if they come off wrong.

That being said, remember to do warmups from now on and good luck on the box challenge, keep up the good work!

Good work! I would say that for your elipses you should continue to practice them. The strokes I'm seeing in your ghosting lack a bit of confidence. I would really be careful with drawing them and try ghosting more then doing them in no more then 2 lines around. Looking at your boxes I would highly recomend moving onto the 250 Boxes to try and become comfortable freehanding them. The tumbling boxes don't seem to be following the direction of the curve but it is a very good first attempt. Keep on working! Good job!