Superimposed lines: There are fraying on both ends, make sure to take your time and place the pen on the correct spot before executing the line and yes you should strive to make the LINE fast, not the planning. The goal here is to follow through the original line as close as possible with confidence and smoothness. Remember to start with small lines and steadily increase its size as you fill the page. And as much as any other mark that you're doing, ghost them as many times as you need.
Ghosted Lines: They're generally wobbly, especially the smaller ones, remember to use your shoulder for them no matter the size and apply the ghost method as many times needed, take your time to execute them with precision and smoothness and in the case of overshooting the dot, seek to lift your pen from the page immediately after reaching it. Try holding your pen more softly and that should help you with your line flow as well, see those tiny little curvatures at the beginning of some lines? That might help you not do that, holding it tightly will only hurt your wrist.
Ghosted Planes: For the lines sames things I said on the previous sections apply here.
Tables: They're not really visible for the most part so I can't really tell if you're properly drawing through some of them. Keep in mind though that they should fit tightly within each other and the bounds of the sections they are in and respect the lines that divide those sections as they're there so you can vary more the degree of your ellipses.
Funnels: The middle line (in this case represents the minor axis) should cut the ellipses in two equal halves, focus on getting the first one right so that the rest doesn't look weird and off as you follow through the line. And also strive to make the funnel accurately, don't need to be computer precision however keep in mind that if the middle line is to far off you're gonna have a hard (impossible actually) time positioning the ellipses in the right way. Draw through your ellipses more the once in one continuous flow, the purpose here is to get used the motion and to follow the minor axis.
Rough perspective: There's lots of chicken scratch and wobbled lines on this one, don't forget to ghost your lines to have a better execution (same previous observations apply here), some lines have been redone, don't be afraid of leaving a bad line on the page as it is much harder to see your mistakes when you erase/draw over it, remember this is a exercise and as such it is expected to have mistakes, if you cover them you'll not be able to see where there's room for improvement. You should definitely do the line correction method preferably with a different color (for this one it can be anything, a pencil, ballpoint, just be it a different color).
Rotated boxes: As stated in the enunciated, this exercise is hard and you're not expected to nail it first try, it is ok for now.
Organic perspective: Another hard exercise only to test the waters, the perspective is off but its no problem as you will tackle the 250 boxes challenge. However, once again, don't do chicken scratch, leave your bad lines there without covering it up with another one, use the ghost method for your all your lines.
** Some lines may look curved and wobbly due to your notebook spiral binding that seems crooked, not sure about that but looking from the pictures it does look like the bumps left by it are affecting your line flow.
Your lines need more work to it, you should strive to use your shoulder and apply the ghosting method. You're supposed to do the exercises with ink felt tip pens, not ballpoint. The ghost method is to help you in executing your lines with more confidence and smoothness. I'm gonna ask some revisions! But don't worry this is absolutely part of the process.
Next Steps:
So here it is:
Before starting to work on them, please make sure you've read again the following sections:
and then:
1 Page of ghosted lines
1 Page of table of elipses
2 Pages of rough perspective (you're not suppose to make perfect boxes but follow the instructions, use the correction method)
Don't rush, read the instructions carefully and complete them to best of your ability and use ink
Good luck, keep pushing and don't grind!
Thanks for taking the time to provide a review, good review. I missed the notification and took too long to come back here and see if I got a reply! But I didn't give up yet. Frankly, I'm kind of worried that there's lots of homeworks going unanswered and then there's the two likes to your evaluation which I don't think is going to get two likes.
The revision: http://imgur.com/a/sWUjaEU
Very nice, they sure look much better now! I'll mark your lesson as complete you shall move on to the 250 box challenge, yay!
In regard to your future homeworks. Be sure to join the discord server here: https://discord.com/invite/FtSS4hhqSu
It is immensely helpful to get a more quick feedback and talk about drawing as a whole. In there you can find the #critique-exchange channel where you can ask for your homework to be reviewed by the community, there are more details to that but join the server and read the pin comments that you'll understand.
Next Steps:
250 box challenge! Good luck!
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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