Alright so first off, congratulations on completing the challenge! This is a very hard task and you did it!
There are a few things I'm noticing as I'm going through these that I want to be sure to point out.
Until about box 190 or so, you cram a bunch of boxes onto the page which-as you pointed out in your description-makes it a big hard to see some details. However, I'm noticing that a lot of those early boxes have repeated lines, fixed lines, and a general vibe of "oh that was wrong I have to change things". These may just be incredibly frayed superimposed lines, but things like box 229 seem like purposeful fixes. While your later boxes don't suffer as much from this, they're also generally better quality so you may not have felt a need to fix them. Generally speaking, leave your mistakes alone!! Let things be wrong, so that you can see on the line extensions how to fix future boxes.
There's a lot of overshooting that I can see, which may be from the superimposed line or your original line. Either way, slowing down and ghosting more precisely is going to be how you fix those, keeping your lines only as long as you want them in the first place.
In general your boxes look really good, once I look past the concerning line fixes. Good luck with Lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Proceed with lesson 2!
And overall be sure you slow down and really take your time to plan things out so that you spend less time trying to fix incorrect lines.
Thanks for your critique ! That was a very thorough analysis of my work ! Like you would have been watching over my shoulder while I was drawing these boxes, haha.
Indeed, I tried to fix the boxes when I felt they were wrong, otherwise it would have seemed to me that I was ignoring my mistakes. But I will no longer try to do that, and will try to improve over the next thing to do.
And there are also a lot of superimposed lines because I was trying to add line weight (and as you can see it works more or less).
Anyway, thanks again for your critique ! I will be moving to lesson 2 !
I would advise writing notes on another paper to keeptrack of mistakes since verbalizing them can really help make the fixes more real. If you don't want to seem like you're ignoring your mistakes that is!
You're very welcome and I wish you the best for lesson 2~
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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