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Looks great!

You have a slight curve in some of your lines. Try counteracting that by consciously curving in the other direction.

Marking as complete!

You mostly used single lines for your boxes which is good!

You started off with strong lines, but as you went on they got more and more wobbly, likely due to fatigue.

I'll mark it as complete. But remember to take breaks if you've been working on something for a while so that you can always put your best work on the page.

Good work!

Thanks!

Thanks!

Could you elaborate on what you mean by warmup pool? Does that mean that I should do some lesson 1 exercises before I work on the first 50?

Here's are my revisions. My pen started dying in the middle of the mini eclipse table unfortunately. Switched to a new one in the middle of the funnels.

https://imgur.com/a/1jubC2H

No worries! Take your time.

No problem. I'm a beginner as well so just mention what I noticed.

I struggled with ghosting as well. I personally did it too much, to the point were I was hesitant to even put a mark down at all.

I think the most important thing is a straight line. Missing the mark is fine at this stage in our development since we're practicing beginners after all.

Eclipses are also tough. I feel like if you're too concerned with touching the edges you get a rhombus or a big circle, it's definitely a balancing act.

By landmarks, I meant the corners of the adjacent cube.

Great work on your organic perspective! The convergences have massively improved from your last attempt, though you still have some wonky cubes. The curved lines also add to that effect.

Great job completing part 1 of Lesson 1 Mariel!

I'll critique in the order that the images appear on Imgur.

Ghosted planes looks good. Your lines are a bit wobbly overall. Remember to focus on the end points, and not to worry about the in-between, other than getting a powerful stroke through your shoulders.

Rough perspective could use a couple more boxes, and your lines are wobbly here as well, especially for shorter lines. A couple things could be causing this, but I suspect that it's due to correcting yourself and a lack of ghosting here. You first concern should be planning you points, and after you've done that, you're only concern is making a straight mark. Wobbly lines are significantly less likely if you've done those first two steps correctly.

Superimposed lines looks pretty good as well. I like the red pen, but I'd stick to dark colors. There's considerable fraying at the beginning of your lines. This can be avoided by properly placing your pen before each line. Trying slowing down if that helps. Long lines have this problem more pronounced, which may be an effect of lapsed attention.

Ghosted lines is a bit hard to make out because of the image quality and the red pen, but it looks good as well. I looks like you second guessed yourself a couple times which is no good. I like the line length variety.

Ghosted planes looks great. Slight wobble but overall it seems like you put a lot of thought into each line. The planes themselves look very pleasing as a result.

Table of eclipses looks good as well. The eclipses are touching another consistently, and you've ghosted through them the proper amount of times, for the most part.

Funnels is also good. You have some inconsistences in terms of shape of the eclipse, but the confidence in your line making really stands out.

Ghosted eclipses looks great. Thank you for using another color! Most eclipses touch each edge, even with the variety in plane shape.

Plotted perspective looks great. Good diversity in position, perhaps some more in size.

Organic perspective has issues related to planning and linemaking. There's considerable wobble in your lines here. It doesn't look like you negotiated your corners (by placing prospective points) here much either, which indicated a lack of planning. This haste may have led you to be more conscious of how you made your lines, which hence the wobbling, nervous line-making.

Rough perspective suffers from much of the same issues listed above. Ghosting is key. Skipping these steps will hurt your line-making. Thank you for using another color while checking your work.

Rotated boxes also suffers from the same issues. Throughout the exercise I see poorly placed corners, which subsequently harmed the box. Especially towards the most rotated boxes, which also suffer from poor line-making. Even the smallest lines must be drawn form the shoulders and ghosted.

Good job on completing part 1 Mariel!

Hey ChaoChao! Good job finishing part 1 of Lesson 1.

Superimposed lines looks good. Your staring points are all close together; as you increased the length of each line however, they fray more and more towards the end. Make sure to focus the end point, and avoid trying to steer the line after settling on where you want it to end. You also made good use of the space of the page!

Ghosted lines also looks good. Using another color for the points is smart. Some wobbling here, which makes me thing you're course-correcting mid-line. Some more line length variance would have been good.

Ghosted planes/eclipses suffers a result of a lack of planning. Each plane seems to have points for each corner which is great. Remember that with the ghosting method, you only have to think about the start and end of your line, which you've established here. You need to focus on reaching your goalposts. Curvature and wobbling are also probably related to the lack of ghosting and technique not based in the shoulders. This is especially pronounced in the smaller planes. Drawing from the shoulder will help you achieve straigher lines, no matter how long they are. Eclipses frequently don't touch each side of their enclosing plane. Try ghosting an eclipse a couple times above the plane, and when you/re confident that you'd touch each edge, put your pen down. There is limited benefit to having them not touch any of the guidling lines. The eclipses have the proper amount of lines.

The table of eclipses looks good. You do a good job of having them touch each other and the sides of the boxes. They all have the correct amount of ghosted lines. As you increased the angle of your eclipses however, they become noticably sharper, which isn't the goal. Try rounding them out in your mind by ghosting them with your finger. You'll notice how sharper they are, and the motion that you should avoid in order to get rounder eclipses. The sharper they are, the less likely they are to touch one another in your case as well. As you progess it seems like you're lifting your pen off the paper while ghosting, which leads to noticeable gaps in your eclipses. This is probably may due to a lack of focus. Try taking a break if you don't think you can put all of your attention into your exercises. This may have been an attempt to make your tilted eclipses less sharper, in which case see my comment earlier.

The eclipses in your funnels rarely touch each other and the guidelines. Putting them closer together would allow you to fit more eclipses on the page, which is always good. Since they don't touch the guidelines you drew, they don't really follow the shape of the funnel. The lack of size variation also add to this effect. Focusing more on the planning stage may help. Your priority here should not be the shape of the eclipse, which you've done well here, but getting them to touch the necesssary lines. Having everything so far apart really hampers the usefullness of this exercise.

Plotted perspective looks great! Some wobbly lines probably as a result of trying to correct unexpectedly off points, but overall it looks good. Try to avoid second guessing yourself. Confidence is king.

Rough perspective suffers from a lack of ghosting/drawing from the shoulder. Even if your points are wonky, you should make an effort to have good, ghosted lines. Curving your lines to reach your points makes your boxes suffer significantly. Using a different color for the lines you used to check was smart! Biggest issue here imo is the curved lines. Focus on drawing form the shoulder and really ghost out these lines.

Rotated Boxes has issues, but I want to emphasize that I'm proud of you for persevering and finishing part 1! I think the biggest issue is that you used a wonky proportions, and you didn't make use of any "landmarks" throughout your process. After making your big cube in the middle, your next step was establishing the near corners of the next cube. This was done haphazardly all over this exercise and as a result it's heavily distorted. In addition to the curved lines, which likely made it difficult to rotate along 1 axis during this exercise. Moving forward, make sure your putting all of your effort to starting off on the right foot. This means that you're ghosting all of your lines and planning where you put your points. Even if you make a mistake here or there, you must proceed with confidence and make another good effort to place good points. I believe you repeatedly didn't do this after 1or 2 mistakes which snowballed. I suspect that the more and more each cube rotated, the harder it was for you to keep track of where exactly the next points were supposed to be, so you winged it. It's better to wing it than to quit, but proper planning should make it easier to keep everything under control moving forward.

Organic perspective suffers due a lack of consistent convergence and issues with line making previously discussed. Before I get into it, I'll mention that these issues are certainly exacerbated by fatigue. If you're tired or bored while drawing, then your work will suffer. If you can't put your best work forward, consider taking break and getting a drink of water before continuing. I'll focus on the convergence, since I've repeatedly commented on your issues with line making. Throughout this exercise, there are boxes that have extremely poor convergence. I believe this is made glaring by the fact that most of the boxes have the exact same orientation. This defeats the point of this exercise. The emphasis is on planning and compromise, both of which can be ignored if you draw the same box each time. This also makes the accumulated inconsistence and mistakes more apparent. I'd like to go back to go back to my point about fatigue and boredom. You'll do yourself more good if you just take a break instead of mindlessly drawing boxes without planning. You'd gain more from it if you drew more, large boxes with different orienations and carefully planned corners. Make sure to watch out for angles smaller than 90 degress in your "Y". This leads to distorted boxes. Most of your converging boxes seem to be a near-infinity, which is fine, but, again, I think some variety in orientation would have been nice. I think this exercise would really benefited from you drawing larger boxes, and perhaps only did 1 or two thirds of a page in a day. I like how you followed your guidelines.

Congrats again on finishing ChaoChao! Please take some time to relish your accomplishment before moving on.

Congrats on finishing part 1!

I'd recommend using pen as you proceed. It's less likely to smudge and it shows up better on camera.

I'll good in the order you uploaded your work in.

Looking at rough perspective 1, it seems like you used scratchy lines for some of your boxes. That's probably tempting considering you're using a pencil and can erase whatever mistakes you make, but I think you'll benefit most from sticking with one well planned line and moving on. Your lines are also wobbly. Try focusing on the start and end points, and connecting them in one smoove motion. You may be focusing to much on trying to get a perfectly aligned line which is causing you to correct yourself midline, which is no good.

As you went on you improved on all of those fronts, so good job!

I think you did a great job of conveying a sense of rotation in the rotated box exercise. Try sticking with one line and making planning it out using the ghosted line method. Using a pen may make that easier.

Organic perspective looks good. I like that you used single lines here, for the most part. I think you'd benefit from using the ghosting method on some of your lines here. Varying the size of your boxes some more may also encourage you to think more about the individual lines, especially during your "y".

Funnels look good. Your eclipses do a good job of touching each other and the funnel. A bit hard to see, which I think is a result of using a pencil. You probably could also fit one or two more example on your page.

Superimposed lines have fraying at the beginning and ends. Focusing on placing your pen(cil) and where you want it to go.

Ghosted lines show signs of erasure. The point of the exercise is not to get perfect lines, but to develop confidence in your line making. Try not to wory about hitting the mark if you've already taken all the steps to get a close as possible. Try moving your arm faster so that your lines do not wobble as much.

It's hard to see what you've done for the ghosted planes/eclipses exercise because of the pencil and the poor picture. Try to flatten your sketchbook/packet as much as possible and move anything causing a shadow from your surroundings. I Iike how dark you made the corners. There's some wobble in these lines, remember the ghosting the method. You maybe slowing down as you approach the corners, considering that you hit most of them head on while making your planes. Ghosted eclipse should be ghosted around twice. It looks like you did a couple more laps on some examples.

Again, congrats on finishing part 1!