First of all, don't add pages. Do the recommended ammount of pages and move on. You'll be told on your critiques the stuff you're doing well and the mistakes you are doing, do doing more work now might make you get bad habits. Before each drawing session you should do 10-15 minutes of warmups, where you'll work on 2-3 exercises from all the ones you've completed and gotten reviewed, that's where you're gonna get the extra mileage over months, not in just a few more pages.
Lines are p good, though they get a bit wobbly at times.
If you take a look over the ghosted lines notes you'll see the levels of lines:
Level 1: Line is smooth and consistent without any visible wobbling, but doesn't quite pass through A or B, due to not following the right trajectory. It's a straight shot, but misses the mark a bit. Level 2: Line is straight, smooth and consistent without any wobbling and maintains the correct trajectory. It does however either fall short or overshoot one or both points. Level 3: Line is straight, smooth, consistent without any wobbling. It also starts right at one point and ends exactly at the other.
As you can see, wobbly lines aren't mentioned, which means that they would be worse than level 1.
Ellipses are p good, but make sure they don't overlap on the tables of ellipses, make them just touch.
On funnels, the minor axis has to cut the ellipses in 2 even halves. Don't be afraid to ignore the curves to achieve this, it's the main objective of the exercise.
On boxes, mainly good job too, but try to draw bigger and fill the pages.
There are some instances where you're repeating some lines. No matter how off a line is, don't repeat it, keep going as if it was correct.
On rotated boxes, don't rush the hatching do it in a zigzaging motion, do it with simple straight lines, planning them and ghosting them.
Don't forget to draw through your boxes on organic perspective. You should be able to see the boxes, even if they're covered by other boxes. You can add lineweight to clarify their relationship on the line overlaps after.
I recommend doing more overlaps as well. You can clarify after the overlaps by adding a confident, drawn with the shoulder superimposed line on the part of the silhouette of the boxes that overlap. Perspective on them has issues but you'll work on it on the box challenge, so don't worry about it!
Next Steps:
First of all, congratulations on finishing lesson 1! Your next step is the box challenge.
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 submissions.
-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts. I can atest to that after having done hundreds of critiques. There are a lot of concepts that I did not understand, and thanks to critiquing I started understanding them. Which made me learn a lot more through the course.
-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high, if you critique some critiques, those would be less critiques I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster.
It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.
Good luck on the box challenge, and keep up the good work!
NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to it so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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