Hey there redwater, good job on finishing lesson 1. I'll be your TA today so let's get started.

Starting off with your super imposed lines, your short and mid range length lines are looking nice and confident with good flow. Your longer lines are showing some wobbling as if you are starting to become too conscious of the task at hand and not letting your shoulder do it's thing. So just keep on practicing those and it'll get better. Your ghosted lines are looking crisp and drawn from the shoulder, and the only issues I notice are at the end points where you are trying to stop on the target. Instead of trying to stop and fighting that momentum of the arm, I like to just lift my pen up as it doesn't fight the inertia and gives my lines a nice taper.

Your ellipses are looking confident with good flow to them - no flat areas or points, and you draw through them correctly. Sometimes your subsequent passes are a little off the initial line, but that's understandable as ellipses are difficult at the start. By the end of the section you have much more control. With your ellipses in planes watch out for making contact with the edges of the planes so that you aren't leaving any room for the ellipse to float around within the bounds. With your tables exercise you do a much better job keeping everything packed together so that there is no room for ambiguity. On your funnels exercise you do a pretty good job on most of your ellipses in keeping the minor axes aligned with the funnel axes. Overall with your ellipses just keep practicing these exercises to build up that confident control.

Moving on to your rough perspective, your lines are clean and planned here. I can see that you are thinking about every line and your boxes are properly oriented because of your lines being correctly placed - horizontals parallel to the horizon and verticals perpendicular. Some of your lines are not ghosted/confident as others so make sure you are using the same process for every line of planning>ghosting>confident shoulder execution. Your converging lines are where we expect for lesson 1 as indicated by your correctly applied check lines so good job there.

Now let's look at your rotated boxes. Good job on pushing through to completion. This is our only goal for students as the only important thing here is to be exposed to new types of spatial problems and solutions, so mission accomplished. Your lines are pretty good here and you do a good job keeping everything neat and readable. There are a few things I would like to point out in terms of the mechanics of the exercise to ensure you are understanding them but don't take that as a knock against your work. It's hard and students are meant to fail.

• Rotation - Your boxes are not rotating but rather skewed and moved over so watch this gif again and study how you rotate a box by moving the vanishing points along the horizon.

• You do a pretty good job with keeping your boxes packed together so you can leverage adjacent lines as perspective guides so good job there.

• Drawing larger - as a general rule when we draw larger we give our brains more room to work through spatial problems so whenever you are drawing something new or complex, drawing as large as the paper allows is always a good idea.

Finally, let's take a look at your organic perspective. You're off to a pretty good start. Your lines are clean and you drew lots of boxes for good mileage. I also see you did a good job keeping your convergences shallow to make sure nothing looks out of place, but a lot of your boxes either have no convergence or have divergence (near planes smaller than far planes) but that's ok and will be worked on in the next steps. You have a good start to exploring three dimensional space but to further build that illusion of 3d on 2d you could do a few things:

• More scale variation to delineate between fore, mid, and backgrounds. As you scale boxes down your brain interprets them as going into the background

• Overlapping your forms causes the brain to interpret this as the forms existing within the same space which really sells the illusion of 3d space.

Overall, you're off to a good start and I will be marking your lesson as complete. Good job. Keep practicing ellipse exercises in your warm ups which you should be doing every time you sit down to draw. Keep up the good work.