Proud of you for sticking with it despite that, friend! Future-you will thank you, I promise! Now, let’s take a look at how you did in this lesson.

Your superimposed lines look great. They’re smooth, properly lined up on the left, and of a consistent trajectory. Generally, you seem quite confident, even on the longer lines, which is great. Do try some arcing lines next time, however! Your ghosted lines/planes look quite confident, also, though I notice that you’ll sometimes slow down a little as you approach your end points, especially in the planes. This is not something we encourage. We tend to want to prioritize confidence in our work, not accuracy, so slowing down (and causing your line to wobble, or change trajectory), in an effort to increase confidence is not something we like to see. If you’re wondering, it’s perfectly fine for the line to stop short of, overshoot, or entirely miss its end point, provided it’s confident. The opposite, as you might expect, is not!

Onto the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise shows a good start, and any issues of confidence I spotted get fixed by the time you reach the end – it seems you realized the above yourself, good work! Looking at just those ellipses, they’re smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through (though sometimes you won’t quite hit the minimum 2 rotations, and settle for 1 and change), so you’re in a good place. The real test, of course, is the ellipses in planes. Yours are definitely a little insecure at times, but I can tell that you’re aiming for confidence. As in the lines section, we’re not particularly concerned with whether the ellipse touches all 4 sides of the planes, or its rotations match up. We aim for them, of course, when we ghost, but once we commit to our mark, confidence is the only thing we’re thinking about. The funnels are well done – I love the big one! Drawing big is something we really recommend, since it’s not only better for the shoulder, but it also doubles as a good way to give your brain some room to think. The only issue here is that your ellipses are sometimes a little misaligned, so you could’ve benefitted from another second or two ghosting each one.

Finally, let’s look at your boxes. The plotted perspective exercise is nicely done – your boxes here are well constructed, and their back lines all correct. Though stick to one direction for hatching, moving forward. The rough perspective exercise starts off strong, and shows some great improvement throughout the set. (The final frame is not great, though I suppose this was either rushed (you were eager to finish), or done in a different day.) Anyway, looking at the one before it, your convergences are on-point, and your linework confident. You’ve even been careful to mind the far planes of your boxes, so they match their opposites – this is great! Nice work with the rotated boxes exercise, too. It’s a little small, and your rotation is sometimes a little subtle, but it’s there, and the boxes are all solid. I especially like that you’ve kept things nice and snug in the back; even if you’re not exactly sure of how a box should behave over there, sticking to the neighboring edges has led to them being mostly correct, and as a result you’re in a great position to learn from the box challenge. Speaking of boxes, your organic perspective exercise looks good. Save for some light confidence issues (which we’ve discussed in another section), your boxes here are well constructed, and their size and foreshortening make it so that they flow quite well. If you’re wondering, drawing through them (as if you’ve got x ray vision) is correct – a box that overlaps another shouldn’t hide its lines.