Hello I’ll be handling the critique for your lesson 1 homework.

Lines

-Starting by the superimposed lines exercise,I can see that your lines are drawn with confidence, but in some instances I notice that they fray at both ends. Use the ghosting method to make sure that you are always starting at a clearly defined point and keep all of the wavering on one side only. Don’t worry about the fraying at the ends, as this tends to disappear with more mileage and practice.

-Moving on to the ghosted lines, you are doing a much better job choosing a clearly defined point, however I notice that your lines tend to waver slightly, maybe you are focusing on accuracy instead of confidence. One thing that can help in these early stages is to draw your marks a little bit faster so that they end up fully confident, once you start gaining more mileage you will have a better control of your lines, I know that this is also caused by the paper not being completely flat, but do keep this in mind for future practice.

-The ghosted planes are no different from the ghosted lines, and I like to see that you have plotted your initial and final points which is important to use the ghosting method correctly, aside from the issues already mentioned you are doing a great job.

Ellipses

-Your first page of the table of ellipses looks somewhat rushed, but on the second I can see that you have kept in mind the alignment, spacing, angle and degree of your ellipses, they are drawn with confidence and you have drawn through them as required. Just keep working on drawing symmetrical and well rounded ellipses, sometimes they have pointed ends-

-On the ellipse in planes I like to see that you are not too overly concerned with having your ellipses touching the four sides of the plane, this is correct as we should always strive to draw symmetrical and well rounded ellipses regardless of where they are. Some ellipses did end up a little distorted but this is an issue that will disappear with more mileage.

-The ellipses are still drawn with good confidence on the funnels and overall they are turning out nicely. You did a good job fitting them snugly without spilling out too much, they are also being cut by the minor axis in equal halves which is correct. Overall you are moving in the right direction with your ellipses and you will continue to improve with practice.

Boxes

-On the rough perspective I can see that you have kept up the confident linework, but I notice plenty of cases where your lines waver a little bit, however it is great to see that you committed to them and did not try to correct them by drawing on top of them, you are doing a good job when it comes to aligning the sides of the boxes to the horizon a line and your estimation to the vanishing point will be more accurate as you practice more and gain more mileage.

-You are moving in the right direction when it comes to the rotated boxes, and I can see that you have tried to keep the gaps between boxes narrow but you failed to do it consistently, I think that the main problem is the lack of planning. Remember to use the ghosting method to think about each mark’s purpose and how you are going to achieve it best, and also keep in mind that each line is no less important for being part of a larger group, give each one of them as much time and attention as it requires.

Try to keep the boxes tight together, and use the sides of adjacent boxes as hints to draw your next box, this way you will not rely on guesswork or eyeballing as shown here.

-Finishing with the organic perspective you are already moving in the right direction, but the perspective of your boxes has some issues, but this is not a big problem as you will have plenty of opportunity to work on this during the box challenge. The only suggestion I have is that you can use lineweight on the specific parts where boxes overlap in order to clarify which ones are closer to us and which ones are further away.

About the warm ups, they are non-negotiable, you should always do them before doing any drawabox assignment,and you will start doing them from now on, given that I will mark this lesson as complete, I won't explain all of this in detail so I'll redirect you to the lesson 0 sections that goes over this

Okaay I think you will not need revisions for this one, I trust that you will continue to improve with more mileage and practice, I’ll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete.