Hey there Ayami, good job finishing lesson 1. I'll be going over your work today so let's get started.

Starting off with your super imposed lines you are drawing your lines nice and confidently from the shoulder. Your curved lines are also showing a good flow. Your lines do have some fraying at the end so at this stage you can start to adjust your rhythm to try and tighten up the groupings. With your ghosted lines I'm seeing some wobbles at the ends of your lines from trying to stop at the point. What I like to do is lift the pen up off the paper instead of fighting against the intertia of my arm. It also gives your lines a nice taper to them. One last point I would like to mention: these look like they were done in pencil, and any work done in pencil will not be accepted in the future regardless of circumstance.

Now moving on to your ellipses I see you are being mindful of things like drawing through the correct number of times and making contact with the appropriate areas on each exercise. This mindfulness, while good, is also leading to a real lack of confidence manifested in stiff, wobbly ellipses instead of ellipses that are smooth and flowing and confident. Keep working on using your shoulder to execute confident swift motions. Now like I said, your ellipses in planes are making contact with the right points so there is no room for them to float around inside the bounds of the ellipse. Much of the same can be said for your tables exercise - you do a good job keeping things snug and consistent within each row, but the lack of confidence is really what sticks out. With your funnels exercise you are doing a pretty good job keeping your minor axes aligned to the funnel axes as well as making contact with the curved edges.

On your rough perspecitve you are demonstrating you understand the key take-away here of keeping your horizontal lines parallel to the horizon and verticals perpendicular so that you have correctly oriented boxes in one point perspective. Your converging lines are on the right track as indicated by your check lines. Your lines are still very wobbly though indicating a lack of ghosting and using your shoulder which should be done for every mark we make so keep that in mind and really work on preparing, ghosting, and confidently executing every line.

Now let's look at your rotated boxes. All things considered, this is a good start. At some points you start to rotate your boxes, you keep things tidy, and your lines are a bit more confident here. You pushed through to completion which is the only requirement we have for students here so that you can be exposed to new types of spatial reasoning problems and ways to solve them. In terms of the mechanics of the exercise there are a few things I can point out to help you learn even more from the exercise.

• First off, you were not rotating for the most part but rather skewing them over as indicated by the lines being parallel. Give this gif some more watches and study how the rotation is driven by how the vanishing points move along the horizon line.

• You did a good job keeping your boxes packed tightly together so that you could leverage the adjacent lines as perspective guides.

• You could have drawn much larger. As a general rule of thumb, when we draw bigger we give our brains more room to puzzle through these spatial problems. With that in mind it is always a good idea to draw as large as the paper allows when drawing something new or complex.

• You did a good job keeping your hatching neat and it provided additional visual clarity. Good job.

Finally let's take a look at your organic perspective. Your lines are verrrry sketchy here; watch out for that. We use ink so that we are forced to plan our marks and think carefully and prepare before we execute. Being sketchy only adds visual clutter and indecisiveness. Your compositions are pretty good for the most part. There's a lot of energy and good sense of scale in some of them. The ones where you have large foreground elements and scaled down forms to recede into the background really sell the illusion of 3d space. This frame especially does a good job of tricking the viewer into thinking that the page has actual depth to it. Your perspective is still in the early stages of development but that's ok since the next steps are really what help you to begin to get a better sense of it.

And with that, your lesson 1 will be marked as complete. Keep practicing your line and ellipse confidence and drawing from the shoulder in your warm ups (which you should be doing each time you sit down to draw)