Hi Selene, I'll be the TA going over your work today so let's get started.

Lines - Your super imposed lines are off to a good start. Some are confidently drawn with the shoulder while others are more carefully drawn and guided, indicated by the wobbly nature of the lines as they continuously course correct back to the original line. What we want in this exercise is a swift, confident execution of the mark; another way to say this is we prioritze flow over accuracy. A good looking line will often suit us better than a 100% accurate one. With your ghosted lines you are doing a good job using your shoulder and you are right on track. There is a lof of overshoot here, so what I recommend is to try to lift your pen off the ppaer when you want your line to end instead of trying ot stop the motion. It is easier than going against the momentum of your arm and it gives your lines a visually pleasing taper.

Ellipses - Your ellipses are definitely on the right track. They are drawn confidently with the appropriate amount of drawing through. Your ellipses in planes are making contact with the plane edges at the proper points resulting in your ellipses being fit snugly within the bound of the planes instead of floating arbitrarily. Your ellipses in tables are also drawn snugly, and while some rows are drawn through a bit too much (first page, third column for instance), most of them are pretty tight. Just keep practicing using ghosting and your shoulder and look for the right pace for you and the ellipses will get better and better. With your ellipses in funnels you are being very mindful of the alignment between your minor axis and the funnel axis which is great. You are having some clear troubles with smaller ellipses vs bigger ones so like I said, just keep practicing during warm ups and you'll be fine.

Boxes - With your rotated boxes I am seeing a few errors. First and foremost you did not apply the check lines as instructed. This is a very important aspect of the homework as it starts to help you gauge your accuracy to far-off targets. On the positive side, your boxes are very well oriented - your horizontals are parallel to the horizon and your verticals perpendicular. One thing I want to discourage is your tendency to re-draw lines. In this system, we use the ghosting method and prepare each line carefully until we are ready to commit and live with the results. Don't rush through these boxes, or anything else more complex for that matter. If a line takes 1 unit of time then a box will take 8 units of time. Additionally, we don't want to re-draw lines because most of the time it will bring attention to an error that normally would have passed right by the viewer without a second thought.

With your rotated boxes you did a good job on completing the exercise. The only goal for students here is to complete it to the best of their abilities so they can be exposed to new types of spatial puzzles and solutions. Your lines are still scratchy and haphazard here; please always use the ghosting method and carefully prepare each line. You are doing a pretty good job rotating your boxes, and while the rotation could definitely be pushed further in some areas, you are showing an understanding of the core principle. You also are doing a good job keeping your boxes packed together so you can utilize adjacent lines as perspective guides, as explained here.. Overall this is a solid submission of this exercise and you respected the boundaries and limitations that each previously drawn box laid before you, which is honestly one of the most important aspects of this exercise, so good job.

Finally let's take a look at the organic perspective boxes. You seemed to have missed the first instruction about drawing frames around the compositions and while it may not seem like much, every instruction has a purpose. You are doing a good job overlapping your boxes to sell the illusion of depth, as well as scaling down boxes appropriately as they recede into the distance further selling the illusion. Your boxes themselvesare pretty good, while there is a little divergence here and there (near planes smaller than far planes), your main issue is a lack of any convergence. This is totally fine though as in this exercise students are being thrown in the deep end and aren't expected to have any solid application of perspective yet. Your line quality is hit or miss here and at the risk of sounding like a broken record I will repeat one last time: ghost and prepare each line then live with the results.

And with that your lesson 1 will be marked as complete. Good job!