I tried to remain diligent as long as I could, but I do feel like I got a little impatient towards the end. Other than that, I think my linework improved a good deal. It feels like I understand the whole 3D concept in my head, but it's difficult to translate that to paper. Hopefully my lack of comfort is normal, and I will improve with time.
First off, congrats on making 250 boxes! You can be proud for the rest of your life. The boxes look correct, but few things stand out to me:
I see that you have a problem with confident lining, that is a common thing, especially when you are not focused on making lines, but constructing boxes. Sometimes you repeat a line you failed or you go too slow, not in a smooth samurai sword swipe fashion, that kills straight lines. Please don't do that in next lessons, confident skill is made upon foundation of confident faliure.
You seem to do like half of the hatching for boxes, it is optional of course. But in regards to your situation with lines, I would recommend you to add hatching to the rest of the boxes. Hatching is a great exercise for learning confident and straight lines, because it is a lot of pretty small strokes that you need to make next to each other so they are parallel. Don't worry about failing at it tho, just go with the flow and prioritize confident line over a correct one.
Overall amazing job, your boxes perspective is absolutely great, but keep in mind the stuff I wrote above. Good luck in lesson 2, I recommend for you to pratice making straight confident lines a little bit more, because you might have a hard time making confident curvy lines, and there is a lot of that in lesson 2.
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.
-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.
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