Hey there russlemania (I love the name!) good job finishing lesson 1. Let's get to your critique.

You're doing a good job with your super imposed lines. They are confidently drawn from the shoulder with pretty good grouping and no major wobbles meaning you were trusting the process and not trying to steer your pen. Your ghosted lines are carrying over that confidence really well and there aren't any major issues I see to point out.

Your ellipses are also very solid. They are very confident and shaped nicely with no flat parts or points. You have drawn through well and kept subsequent passes tight on the initial lay in. Your ellipses in tables are consistent within each row and, for the most part, you are keeping them packed together so that there is no room for ambiguity. Your ellipses in planes are making good contact with the edges to ensure they are fit snugly within the bounds and while the overall quality of the ellipses dips just a tad due to trying to hit all those targets, they are still pretty good. Your ellipses in funnels have many ellipses where the minor axis is just ever so misaligned from the funnel axis as well as some ellipses not being in contact with their neighboring ellipses. Overall though, you are doing a really nice job with these difficult shapes.

Moving on to your rough perspective, your boxes are properly oriented in 1 point perspective by being mindful of keeping horizontal lines parallel to the horizon and verticals perpendicular. Your converging lines are on the right track as indicated by your correctly applied extension lines. There are a few instances where you are redrawing lines, which you should never be doing. This is because it adds visual clutter and draws attention to areas we don't want attention drawn to when we are trying to fix a mistake. We work with ink to learn to respect line economy; planning each line and then being forced to work with the results. I also notice some of your shorter lines are a little rough which is understandable since drawing shorter lines with the shoulder can be quite difficult so incorporate those into your daily warm ups and you'll be golden!

Now let's move on to the rotated box challenge. You did a good job pushing through to completion while keeping things neat in the face of complexity. You drew large to give your brain room to work through these spatial problems and most of your lines stay nice and confident. In terms of the mechanics of the exercise there are some things I want to point out just to make sure you are understanding the core principles here.

• Rotation - Your boxes are not rotating (except for the first box on the right of center) but rather being skewed and moved over. This comes from not moving your vanishing points, so watch this gif again to study how the vanishing points move to drive rotation.

• Packing your boxes - Your boxes have a lot of large gaps between them meaning you cannot properly leverage adjacent lines as perspective guides so make sure you read up on that section again to understand that principle as it's a very powerful tool to have in your tool box.

Overall though the only goal here is for students to complete the exercise as best as they can so they're exposed to new spatial problems which is what you did so mission accomplished! Good job.

Finally, let's look at your organic perspective. Your compositions are off to a good start, but a little repetitive. You are doing a good job exploring three dimensional space by scaling your boxes for a clear fore, mid, and background. Page 1 frame 2&3 and page 2 frame 2 are especially successful with the very large foreground boxes to help lead the eye into the frame. One thing you could do to further push the illusion of three dimensional space here is to overlap your forms more so the brain interprets them as occupying the same space, but this is a good start. Your perspective is still in the early stages with a fair amount of divergence (near planes smaller than far planes) but that's ok since the next step will fix that real nice. You only have a few times where you are redrawing lines so make sure you kick that habit and don't bring it to the 250 box challenge.

Overall you have done a very nice job with lesson 1. I will be marking your lesson as complete and sending you off to the box challenge now. Keep up the good work.