Hey there, I'm Meta and I'll be your TA today, so let's get started.
Lines
Starting with your superimposed lines, you're doing a great job lining your pen up with the starting point and executing your lines confidently. This confidence carries through to your ghosted lines and planes and overall this section of the homework is well done.
Ellipses
Onto your tables of ellipses and these are off to a great start. Your linework is confident for the most part (though there are a few instances where it wobbles a bit), you've selected a good variety of shapes and sizes of ellipses to practice, and you've kept them squeezed up tight against each other particularly on the second page.
Next your ellipses in planes are looking good, you've made clear attempts to hit the four sides of the plane while remaining confident and not over-focusing on accuracy. Great to see you're drawing through all of your ellipses 2-3 times as required.
Finally, your funnels are off to a good start in terms of alignment to the minor axis - a few skew off here and there but absolutely within normal limits for this stage. I did notice some of your elipses ended up a bit of a funny shape, possibly from slowing down/focusing too much on accuracy here, so just something to keep in mind going forward is that the same sort of attitude applied in ellipses in planes is required here - do your best to get it accurate while remaining confident and that accuracy will come with time and practice.
Boxes
A quick note on your plotted perspective - you may have noticed some of the back lines of your boxes are not vertical - this can happen when there's slight inaccuracies in the lines used to plot the front of the box not going back to the exact vanishing point drawn. Something to keep in mind, as you will encounter this again.
Onto your rough perspective and you've made fairly successful efforts to keep the horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line. You've correctly applied the line extensions and your perspective lands in a pretty normal margin of error. Your line confidence took a little hit here but that's normal when students are first asked to take their lines and turn them into boxes - just continue to plan, ghost, and execute those lines confidently and it will come along with mileage.
Despite your misgivings, the rotated boxes are off to a good start - you're keeping the gaps between the boxes tight and consistent, which has given you good cues about where to place the next one. You didn't manage to capture the full range of rotation, tending to follow the vanishing point of the box you previously put down, however this exercise is intended only as an introduction to certain concepts you will explore further throughout the course.
Finally, you're getting a good amount of variation in the size and rotation of your boxes in the organic perspective exercise which is starting to create a sense of depth in each frame, though if you wanted to push it further, you could play with the scale between the smallest and largest boxes as well as trying to overlap the ones closest to the viewer. The boxes themselves are diverging a bit in places, however like the previous exercise, this one is also simply an introduction to the concepts you'll explore in depth in the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge
This is a remarkable little pen. Technically speaking, any brush pen of reasonable quality will do, but I'm especially fond of this one. It's incredibly difficult to draw with (especially at first) due to how much your stroke varies based on how much pressure you apply, and how you use it - but at the same time despite this frustration, it's also incredibly fun.
Moreover, due to the challenge of its use, it teaches you a lot about the nuances of one's stroke. These are the kinds of skills that one can carry over to standard felt tip pens, as well as to digital media. Really great for doodling and just enjoying yourself.
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