Hi Binnypmp, I'll be critiquing your work. It is indeed a lot of work, so congratulations for working through it!
Lines
It looks like you're drawing from your shoulder and beginning at the same points on the first page. The fraying at the ends is normal and will decrease overtime with additional practice. A few of the curved lines don't seem to begin at the same location on the second page - remember to always start your lines at the same spot.
Planes
Good effort with the planes and ellipses exercise. You made a lot of attempts over a couple pages and overall completed the planes and ellipses accurately. Some of the ellipses look 'rough', like they've been gone over more than 2-3 times or a bit slow. For future warmups doing these, try completing the ellipses in a fast, smooth motion, only overlapping 2-3 times at most. You could also try creating larger planes and ellipses that take up more of the page - this would mean you would need to make longer strokes with your arm and focus on drawing from the shoulder.
Ellipses
Your pages of ellipses look nice and the vast majority hug the contours of the boxes you created. There are a few areas with gaps where you could squeeze in additional ellipses. Be careful not to overlap the ellipses with one another - for example row 2, column 2 on p.1, row 3, column 3 on p.2. Take your time and plan each ellipse. Overall well done. Excellent work with the funnel exercises as well.
Boxes
You completed the two page perspective well. The rough perspective exercise was difficult to assess because of the number of boxes and the blur of blue lines around the VP, but it looks like you understood the exercise and concepts. When you extend the perspective lines, remember to extend them to the horizon. If you look on the second page many of the lines extend abov or below the horizon.
The rotating box and organic perspective exercises are difficult - good work completing both. Remember to only draw a line once unless otherwise instructed. Even if it is a mistake, that's okay. As you complete the 250 box exercise you'll have many opportunities to refine your understanding and it will become easier to rotate these boxes in space. One next step you can take with these is your initial setup of boxes. When you create the three lines that make up the 'Y' shape of the box, try to keep those lines greater than 90 degrees. (See: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/step2) If you keep the initial setup this way, it will make the remainder of the box easier to draw.
Next Steps:
250 box challenge
lines: I sometimes forget to start from the same starting point and i will make sure to start from the same point when I do the warmups.
Planes: i realized after I finished that my planes were smaller than they shoulde, I will try going for bigger planes when I do the warmups. I had a hard time with ellipses and I sometimes I used to go over them for more than 3 times when i forget I am only allowed to go over them for 2-3 times only and thank you for pointing out that my ellipses were a little rough, will go at ellipses with a little more speed when I do warmups.
Boxes: I forgot about the 90 degree rule I guess will make sure not to forget that when I do the 250 boxes challenge.
I am very grateful for the critique, thank you very much! it is very helpful.
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