Finally got it in, four years after bookmarking the site! Was using a pretty finicky pen when I started, got that sorted out sometime during the Ellipses Tables. I also could not figure out line weight for the life of me, I felt like I was either pressing down enough to make a mark, or so light the pen would wobble.
Congrats on finishing lesson 1! Four years is a long time to wait to get started. But you made it here eventually. :D
Looking at your super-imposed lines you did a good job varying your line types and you weren't afraid to use the whole page. Your ghosted lines and planes have some line wobbling. This is usually caused by over thinking your lines and trying to "correct" mid course. This can be solved by ghosting more and ghosting properly before you go to make your mark. Ghosting eliminates thought from mark making because you already figured out the mark during the ghosting process. By the time you make your mark your body has been trained through the motion and you no longer need to think about it. In the future when you go to make your marks, don't try to correct it. Even if it's "wrong" finish the mark anyways.
For your ellipses and ellipses in planes, you do a good job demonstrating an understanding of the exercise. There is some wobble like I mentioned the kind I mentioned before. But that is easy to fix with more ghosting in the future. There is also a bit of slanting in your funnels. The easiest way to correct this in the future it to rotate your page to better line up the ellipses. Rotated the page is useful whenever you are struggling to have a mark land where you want. By the time you get to the funnels the wobble is much rarer. Good job there. Your ellipses are lined up well.
You did a very good job with your rough perspective. Your horizontal lines for the most part run parallel to the horizon and the verticals are perpendicular to the horizon. It looks like you put a lot of effort into trying to make the lines that make up your boxes "perfect" as in not extending past the plotted point. It looks to me that this has led to the wobble in your lines returning. I know it can be tricky to have your lines end where you want them to. A tip for that would be to try lifting your pen at the end of a line rather than stopping the motion of your shoulder. This can help remove some of the other thinking that leads to course correction in your mark making. Your vanishing points for the rough perspective land pretty close to the right area which is really good. It shows that you are thinking through where you want your marks to be.
You can see that same care in your rotated boxes. You have placed all the boxes pretty well. The gaps between each box are pretty narrow and consistent. You also get some good rotation in them.
You have a good start here with your organic perspective. As you continue onto the 250 box challenge your convergences will become more consistent.
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 Box Challenge.
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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