We recommend keeping your pages clean, if you’re able. On a similar vein, try not to cross things out. Living with your mistakes is something you’re going to need to be able to do, and this is the first step towards that. Hi, I’m TA Benj, and I’ll be looking over your submission.

Starting off, your superimposed lines are looking quite good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. There’s the occasional issue with fraying on the left, or stopping too short on the right, so I’ll recommend not going on auto-pilot when drawing these, if you can. The ghosted lines look solid, save for those 2 superimposed lines on that page – try not to mix and match exercises. Also, see if you can make your points a little smaller. The idea is that a perfect line should swallow them both. The ghosted planes look good, though you’ve not plotted any start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of the planes. Remember: all lines need start/end points, because all lines are drawn using the ghosting method (plot points, ghost between them, execute).

The table of ellipses exercise is a little mixed. For one, your ellipses are a little stiff. Remind yourself that what we’re most concerned with here is not accuracy, but rather confidence. It’s important to have a clear goal, when drawing these ellipses, to be able to achieve that confidence – a lot of your ellipses here do not – a example is page 1 row 3 (the entire row). Finally, remember to draw through your ellipses a full 2 times, at minimum. The ellipses in planes look solid. They’re at ties a little bumpy, so, again, remember that the most important thing here is that they’re smooth, and rounded, not that they snuggly fit inside of their frames. The funnels look good, too, though I’d draw them a little bigger, next time.

The plotted perspective exercise looks good, but it’s linework is a little scratchy. This exercise is done using a ruler, so there’s no excuse for this, really.

The rough perspective exercise is the same. Be a little leaner with your linework, please. Each line is drawn once, and only once, regardless of how it turns out. As for the exercise itself, both convergences and linework look good by the end, but not so much before that. Getting an exercise wrong because you lack the skill is fine – that’s why you’re here; getting it wrong because you lack patience, however, is not – at the very least, extend all of your correction lines to the horizon.

The rotated boxes exercise seems to be missing its visual reminder boxes. The exercise itself looks fine – the boxes being snug, and properly rotating – though the latter does not extend to their far planes, and the boxes themselves are a little stretched, too. This is fine, however. All we expect of our students here is for them to see the exercise through to the end, which you have.

The organic perspective exercise looks mostly good. A few things. First, don’t use a pencil (or any other tool) for anything in this course. Second, something I’ve already mentioned: don’t correct an incorrect line. Third, again something I’ve mentioned, but that I’ll mention again because it’s important: draw start/end points for all lines. This is particularly important here, where, if you don’t, you’ll be thinking of a number of things at the same time, undermining our philosophy of thinking before we draw, not as.