Hi HeironymousBox,
I hope things are well with you.
To answer your question, it's perfectly normal. Mine were way off the first time I did the rough perspective exercise.
Super Imposed Lines
Good job, you're working from the shoulder it's very apparent. Something that helped me improve was to fill a full page of ghosted lines and then return to them at the end to super impose them all.
Ghosted Lines
Your accuracy here is very good, keep practicing to maintain!
Ghosted Planes
Not bad, your ellipses are all fixed on the surface of the plane, which is great.
Table of Ellipses
Solid work here, you've managed to keep your angles consistent and your ellipses touching for the most part. On the 2nd page, some of your later ellipses are getting a bit sharp towards the edges, remember the arc of an ellipse is always curving, symmetrical in all four quadrants.
Ellipses in Funnels
Not a bad effort, you've kept them within the funnels for the most part. Try to keep the ellipses' minor axis aligned to that centre funnel line, I feel some of your ellipses on the bottom right are starting to angle a bit (although that might be the camera angle.)
Plotted Perspective
Good job on these.
Rough Perspective
I found what helped me most here is ghosting a lot, all the way back to the vanishing point, before drawing in your receding line. I think you did well here overall, just watch your lines, always draw them with confidence and always from the shoulder.
Rotated Boxes
Ah the bane of my existence. I've done this one a few times, so congratulations on finishing it, it ain't easy. The first thing I noticed is the position of the far boxes up, down, left and right. What you're looking at here are the sides of one quarter rotated box (45 degree rotation), so they really need to be positioned much closer, your most extreme rotated boxes should flow in front of these. The one thing that helped me here was to refer back to Uncomfortable's drawings in the lesson. Overall though, I think the angles of your rotated boxes look good.
Organic Perspective
These look decent, you've got a good sense of depth going on with the scale of your boxes. Watch your line work on those small boxes/shorter lines, they're getting a bit wobbly - remember, confident lines, always from the shoulder.
Good work overall, keep practicing!
Next Steps:
250 Box Challenge.
thanks so much for the feedback. gonna have a crack at the 250 box challenge then go back and retry the rough perspective and rotated boxes exercises with your comments in mind.
No problem HeironymousBox :)
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