Hello there pump! Good job finishing lesson one, I'll be your TA today so let's get started.

Right away with your line exercises I am noticing that you're still needing some practice and mileage using your shoulder to make your marks. This is not uncommon for beginners so don't take it to heart - Just remember to keep practicing these exercises in your warm-ups every time you sit down to draw. With your superimposed lines there is a lot of wobbling going on which goes back to what I was saying about using your shoulder; much of the same can be said for your ghosted lines.

With your ellipse exercises you are honestly doing a pretty good job of drawing through them appropriately and keeping the subsequent passes tight. With your ellipse in planes exercise I see you are trying to hit the proper points on the edges so that your ellipse is firmly rooted in space and now it's just a matter of improving accuracy through practice. With your tables exercises, your ellipses are much less anchored In space as discussed in this section of lesson 1. Your ellipse quality in the funnels exercise took a dramatic downturn sadly. your confidence is much less and it appears you were not ghosting or otherwise preparing like in your other exercises. Make sure to be mindful of your orientation of your ellipses, specifically the alignment of your minor axis.

As we move on to your rough perspective boxes you are encountering a problem that lots of students do. As we move from abstract exercises to drawing more concrete things it can start to get overwhelming. The way to deal with that is to look at a box not as an object but merely as 12 lines. Each line should be prepared appropriately - planning where your line should go with starting and ending points, ghosting until you feel confident, and executing confidently with the shoulder. Once a student gets into that mindset things start coming together a lot better. you did a good job trying to keep your horizontal lines parallel to the horizon and with more prep and ghosting you would have had much less skewing going on.and your verticals perpendicular, and with more prep and ghosting you would have had much less skewing going on. Your converging lines are about as accurate as we expect at the stage and as you continue to practice your ability to draw lines towards a distant target will improve.

Now let's move on to everyone's favorite, the rotated boxes! I always like to open up the section with a disclaimer that we don't expect students to be able to do this well as that is not the point of this exercise. The point of this exercise is to introduce students to new concepts within spatial reasoning and just to show them how many things there are to think about. as long as a student tries their best and pushes through to completion that is all that matters and that is what you have done! That being said, I do have a list of concepts I like to run down to make sure students are getting the most out of this exercise in terms of understanding and learning.

Adjacency - Your adjacent lines are pretty far apart so you can't properly utilize them as perspective guides. This is a really useful technique so make sure you're understanding it and can properly leverage it.

Rotation - Your boxes are not rotating, but rather skewing and shifting over, so give this gif some more attention and try to internalize how the rotation is driven by the vanishing points moving along the horizon.

Scale - You honestly did really well with scale here. A good rule of thumb is to always try and draw something as large as your paper allows because that gives your brain the most room to work through the spatial reasoning puzzles. You took up the entirety of your page which is great! Keep up that good habit.

One last thing: your lying quality is still kind of shaky which really comes to bite you when you start drawing complex things like this exercise. You are definitely showing improvements, and my biggest critique is actually in your hatching as it gets quite sloppy as you near what I assumed to be the end of your exercise. Make sure that if you ever feel yourself beginning to rush as you near the end of something to get up and stretch and give yourself at least a five-minute breather before continuing.

Finally let's take a look at your organic perspective. Your lines are still pretty wobbly here which is a detriment to the overall solidity of your forms. You really are going to want to get used to planning out and ghosting every line and using your shoulder so that you don't end up having to redo more boxes after you already do 250 of them! Your compositions are nice: you have a lot of motion in them and you are playing with depth well by scaling down boxes as they recede into the distance. Additionally, I like that you are not afraid to overlap your forms because that causes the brain to perceive these forms as taking up a single physical space. These two principles work in tandem to help sell the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional paper. The only other thing I want to point out is that just a couple times you try to redraw your lines causing it to look scribbly or messy. One of the main reasons we have students work in ink is to get them used to preparing and thinking about every Mark they make before they make it and then living with the results. When you try and redraw a line to correct a mistake all you are doing most of the time is drawing more attention to that mistake so it's best to just live with the line and move on and in later lessons you will begin to learn different ways to draw focus away from areas you don't want so much attention to be on.

With all that being said I will be marking your lesson one as complete. You definitely have room to improve, but we don't expect perfection, just effort. As you move on to the 250 Box challenge make sure to be more deliberate with each mark you make. Make sure you read all of the instructions thoroughly, take plenty of breaks, and make sure that you are drawing for fun per the 50-50 rule so you don't get burnt out. keep up the good work and we will see you next time.