No worries – no one here bites; they’re all busy drawing boxes! Hello, I’m one of the TAs here, and I’ll be looking over your lesson 1 submission. Let’s see.

Your superimposed lines look great. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Your ghosted lines/planes look quite good, also. 2 things, however. 1, from the amount of ink, I can tell that you’re slowing down as you approach the end point. Don’t. Overshooting is perfectly fine. Your mark hesitating, is not. 2, it seems like you’re not plotting start/end points for all of your lines (looking at the non-diagonal center lines of your planes, in particular). Please do.

The table of ellipses exercise looks fairly good. It seems like you’re still experimenting, trying to find your ideal speed – this is good. My only tip, then, is to see if you can lift, not flick, your pen off the page at the end of your rotations – it’ll get rid of those ugly tails at the ends of your ellipses. The ellipses in planes look great. Despite their size, and more complicated frames, they maintain their previous smoothness/roundness – it’s good to see that you’ve got your priorities straight. The funnels have some minor issues, but they’re mostly well done. The issues are: the inconsistent increase in degree sizes, the occasional misalignment, and the fact that the minor axis doesn’t always extend to the end (meaning: the fact that you’ve got some ellipses that are technically aligned to nothing).

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

The rough perspective exercise is interesting. Both the linework and the convergences start off strong, but they don’t improve a terrible amount throughout the set. I’m wondering if you’re forcing yourself to stick to your original guesses, or something? Remember that you’re allowed to redraw a point as many times as you like, if you find it to be unsatisfactory. A line, on the other hand, is a different story. I do notice a number of redrawn lines here, and since the act is not particularly consistent, I’ll assume that this is not meant to be lineweight. As such, I’ll remind you that we leave our mistakes be.

The rotated boxes exercise looks fairly solid for a first attempt. It has been seen through to the end, and to the best of your ability – this is already enough for it to pass. On top of that, however, you’ve kept your boxes snug, and they rotate nicely as a result. Certainly, the far planes are a little flat, but this is not something we expect students to have a solid grasp on until after the box challenge – it’s why it’s here, in fact, to introduce you to the problem, so we can later solve it.

Finally, the organic perspective exercise looks very good. Looking at these boxes, I predict that you won’t have too hard of a time on the box challenge. For this exercise, in particular, you’ve kept the foreshortening shallow, and the increase in size consistent, and obvious, making it so that your boxes flow as intended.