Took me almost a month, I'm not gonna lie the Rotated Boxes took me a whole week and after finally doing it I took a whole week off until settling again on the exercise.
This assignments have a few exercises that I'm proud and many that I'm ashamed of. I'm ready to redo most of it, so please be harsh.
Superimposed lines: There seems to be some arching on the lines, be sure to use your shoulder when drawing. Some lines have fraying in the beginning to, indicating you didn't start at the right spot.
Ghosted lines: There's some wobble in most lines, try to be more confident and smooth in when you draw the lines.
Ghosted planes: Same wobble here as in the previous exercise.
Ellipses: The ellipses does not stay within their bounds, some overlapping into other ellipses or outside the frame line. Some of them are also not reach the whole way to the frame lines. Some of them are also not smoothly elliptical, but wobbly and bumpy. Keep practicing to increase your accuracy. Try to be more confindent in your execution of the motion.
Funnels: Some of the ellipses are tilted slightly wrong, making the degree of the ellipse a bit off. And same issues as the previous ellipse exercises.
Plotted perspective: You've drawn some lines twice, which is bad practice.
Rough perspective: The width lines should be parallell to the horizon and the height lines perpendicular to it.
Rotated boxes: I think some of the boxes are not rotated, they just converge against the vanishing point.
Some boxes are smaller than those further back, scewing the perspective a bit.
In general I think it looks good, of course there are much room for improvement but that's why there are more lessons after this. This is also my first time critiquing so hope this makes sense.
Next Steps:
I would continue to practice what I mentioned above as warm ups during lesson 2.
Thanks for the quick reply, wasn't expecting it this fast. I'll keep working on these exercises as warm-ups, on the shoulder drawing issues and trying to fix the whobbly lines/bad practices.
I guess you got lucky!
And to clarify, I realized that I wrote lesson 2, but I meant "the next step", which in fact is 250 boxes challenge. Hope I don't need up everything for you, I was getting tired in the end.
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