Hi, a7gatki. Good job on finishing this lesson. The paper seems fine. I don't know the size, but the recommended one is A4 (8.5"x11"). Just regular printing paper.
Overall you did well. There's some minor wobbling on your ghosted lines, but going over you ghosted planes it seems you improved in this aspect, although you didn't seem to place the dots to every line, specially the middle ones. It's important to place the dots in order to give you a goal to draw the line to. This way you can also check how far you were from it. These small goals help you check how much you're improving.
Your table of ellipses also looks nice, although you seem to struggle a bit on the more rounded ones, as they tend to be a bit deformed. Ghost your lines well and commit to the ghostind method drawing smoothly and with confidence. Your priority now is to keep your lines smooth, as accuracy will naturally come later. Your funnels also seem good, despite the persistent wobble, although in a small degree. Keep i mind that the center line (minor axis) should cut each ellipse in two equal parts.
Your rough perspective is also good, although in some cases you drew over the same lines. This is something you should avoid. Plan your lines well with dots, ghost them and draw just once.
The rotated boxes is overall clean, despite, again, drawing over the same lines here and there. You should have pushed the rotation of the boxes further, though.
On the organic perspective exercise it seems you didn't fully understand the point of it. The point was to make the smallest box (farther away) in one point and the largest one (closer) on the other point. Then, you would gradually increase the size of each box and this would give a better sense of depth to your work. Instead, you scattered boxes of all sizes in the line. Despite that, you managed to work well on the perspective, giving the sense that all boxes belong in the same 3D space. You could also have overlapped some boxes and played with the line weight in order to highlight which box is in the front. In this exercise you also drew over the same lines in many cases. Again, you shouldn't do this. The only times you can draw over the same lines are in the ellipses and in order to increase line weight.
Don't forget to warm up with exercises from this lesson further on and good luck for the next lessons.
Next Steps:
250 boxes challenge.
Thank you for this very in depth review of my art. To my understanding lesson 1 is breaking down all shapes into the simplest constructions. Getting helpful critisms and seeing the flaws and mistakes that I have made should help me in the long run.
Thanks :)
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