Hello! I will be handling this critique this time.
Superimposed Lines: I noticed some of your lines are fraying on both ends. However some of them don’t look to be wobbling–good job. It seems you’re confident, but keep on ghosting the lines.
Ghosted Lines: try your best to not keep your lines at a consistent size. Your lines are arching here a bit. Work on moving your shoulder and ghost your lines a hundred times might help. If they keep arcing, try to consciously arch to the opposite direction.
Ghosted Planes and Ellipses in Planes: lines are still arching; you may feel nervous or don't ghost them. Also, some of the lines of your planes don't connect to the dot, so work out on drawing with a goal in mind!
You did a great job drawing through ellipses 2 to 3 times.
Tables of Ellipses: aim for keeping the ellipses within the bounds, ghosting, drawing them through each other, and, above all, confidence. Have a concrete goal in mind, take a deep breath, and use your shoulder. Don't be afraid of changing the ellipses size too.
Funnels: the minor and major axis should cut the ellipses into symmetrical halves. I'd recommend you to use a ruler or a hard object to draw the curves. Remember this exercise requires you to use the different sizes of an ellipse. Again, don’t forget to ghost and use your shoulders.
Plotted Perspective: it looks like you've got the purpose of the exercise!
Rough Perspective: for this one, draw dots and ghost lines to know where it'll be connecting–although you haven’t had a big problem with perspective here, most of the lines are not connecting and trembling. Focus on drawing confidently and ghost. Weight lines must be parallel to the horizon line and height lines must be perpendicular to the horizontal line.
Rotated Boxes: some of the lines are trembling, not connecting, and are not clear. You did a good job, though! You grasped the purpose of this one.
Organic Perspective: the angle degrees between each line of the Y should be equal to or greater than 90°. Same advice as above—draw from your shoulder, ghosting because some of the lines, again, are not connecting. Also, some lines are not connected to the dot. If you make a mistake, try to not repeat the line; just keep going.
I like how your lines seem clean.
Congrats, you did a great job! Please, if possible, use an ink pen for the next lessons.
Next Steps:
Feel free to start the 250 Boxes Challenge.
Thank you so much for the feedback! I'll definitely be sure to work more consciously on connecting the lines and making them more confident as I go forward with drawing boxes
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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