Hello BRUL!

Lines start off a little bit wobbly and arc at times. At this time, it’s ok to be off on accuracy, as the focus is to help develop the shoulder’s muscle memory. A line that is confident and consistent but slightly inaccurate is better than an accurate line that wobbles or arcs. Take your time, ghost your lines with your shoulder, and then execute the line. I do see some improvements as you move along the lines exercises. However, there are quite a bit of overshooting occurring in the ghosted planes, more notably in the bisecting lines. It will take some time, but as you draw the line and hit the target point, lift your pen as you maintain the ghosted trajectory. You may also be drawing a little too fast, so you may need to experiment with the speed you’re drawing at. Be careful not to rush and take some time planning and ghosting.

To plan and establish a trajectory, use dots for every line you mark down, just as you’ve done with the corners of the planes. Placing dots can be a powerful tool, as they help you plan where the line will start and end. The beauty of dots is you don’t need to commit to the very first dot(s) you place. You can place a new dot(s) if you feel it doesn’t look quite accurate. Then ghost and draw your line with your shoulder.

Ellipses start off very loose and at times wobbly, but they start to tighten up a bit and become more confident as you move along. Continue to develop your shoulder’s muscle memory by ghosting and drawing with your shoulder. Also, be careful to not draw through the ellipses too many times. 2-3 times through will suffice, no more and no less. Ellipses in the funnels are generally aligning to the minor axis.

Boxes:

The line quality is dipping in your boxes. There are a lot of sketchy and/or corrected lines occurring in the rotated boxes and organic perspective exercises, where lines are being reinforced or drawn over to correct them. This unfortunately makes the drawing look more messy, making it difficult to identify the form. Just remember to take your time and take breaks in between if you need to.

Plotted Perspective:

You have only 1 frame/panel for this exercise; there should be 2-3 frames on the page. However, I don’t see any large issues with your exercise, so we’ll move on.

Rough Perspective:

You’re missing some frames here too; there should be about 2-3 panels per page just as with the plotted perspective. Although it is challenging to do so, a couple of things to keep in mind for this exercise:

• Horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line

• Vertical lines should be perpendicular to the horizon line

I do see where you try to maintain this in some of your lines and dot placements. As aforementioned, don’t be afraid to move the dots before you execute your line. I would like to see another page with 3 frames.

Rotated boxes:

First of all, kudos on sticking to what you started with and going through with it! That in itself takes discipline, especially with a very challenging exercise such as this one. As previously mentioned, there are lots of sketchy lines. Nevertheless, from what I can see, the boxes are actually not rotating along the horizontal and vertical axes, meaning they are sharing a similar or the same vanishing point. Moreover, the boxes aren’t quite kept together and are drastically changing in size. I can’t tell if any dots were placed, but they are especially helpful in this exercise to keep the boxes relatively neighbored to each other and maintain similar size. You are drawing through your boxes, though, which is great! Now, I understand this was a challenging and frustrating exercise, but I would like to see you try this exercise again. Don’t be discouraged; take your time with this one.

Organic Perspective:

Some frames are missing in this exercise too (should be 2-3 per page), so please do another page with 3 panels. Nonetheless, nice job maintaining the boxes along the path. As the boxes move along the path, they gradually get smaller, conveying a sense they are moving away from the viewer. Some boxes’ set of parallel lines are diverging, making the plane that is further away from the viewer appear larger instead of slightly smaller (in turn making the perspective off). But this is something you’ll get to work on more with the 250 Box Challenge.