Aha! I knew it! Get him boys, he’s done these lessons before! Nah I’m just kidding. Welcome back; let’s see how you did this time around.
Starting with your superimposed lines, these are mostly good. They’re generally smooth, and properly lined up at the start, but you’re definitely a little too concerned with the guideline itself, as your lines tend to change trajectory to meet it. The goal, instead, is to keep the trajectory consistent, even if that does lead up to the line being nowhere near the guideline. Your confidence improves nicely by the time you reach your planes, though their non-diagonal center lines still struggle a little from time to time. I wonder if this is because (correct me if I’m wrong) you’ve not plotted any start/end points for those lines? If so, be sure to plot some, from now on. Otherwise, no need to stress – it’s the sort of thing that’ll improve over time.
Moving on to the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise is mostly good. The ellipses are a little same-y (which is to say, you didn’t especially vary their degrees/angles), and there’s instances where you’re a little too focused on their accuracy, and end up sacrificing their smoothness/roundness for it, but I can tell that you’re aiming for them to be confident, so keep at it. As expected, they improve by the time you reach exercise 2: the ellipses in planes. Do be mindful, however, that you rotate around them a full 2 times, at minimum, rather than settling for 1 and change. The funnels do struggle a little, but this is a complicated exercise, so it’s expected. My advice is twofold: first, spend more time on each ellipse, carefully ghosting it so that it’s properly spaced, and properly aligned to its minor axis, and second, be mindful of what pivot you draw every step of them from. The sharp turns at the top and bottom, especially, I think you might be, without intending to, of course, drawing with your wrist.
Concluding with the box section, the plotted perspective exercise looks clean.
The rough perspective exercise shows some nice improvement throughout the set. By the end, your convergences are on-point, but the linework leaves a little to be desired. Lack of confidence isn’t the issue, however; automatic reinforcing is. I’ll remind you that, regardless of how it turns out, each line is to be drawn once, and only once. Resist the urge to add more ink to a mistake, most of all because doing so doesn’t really fix it, anyway.
The rotated boxes exercise is nicely done. Linework is a bit of an issue here (and this time, I am talking about confidence), but it’s a complicated exercise, so that’s understandable. Though I should mention that, complicated or not, all you’re doing is drawing the same exact lines that you drew in the ghosted lines exercise. If they could be confident there, why not here too, you know? But anyway, your boxes here are big, snug, and properly rotating, so nice work.
The organic perspective exercise, too, is well done. I’m especially pleased to see so many unused points on the page – evidence of careful, patient planning. As a result of it, your boxes are well constructed, and their size, and foreshortening, make it so that they flow quite convincingly, too. Nice work, and consider this lesson complete.
Next Steps:
Onto the box challenge!
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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