Hey there, I'm Meta and I'll be your TA today, so let's get started.
Lines
Starting with your superimposed lines, you're doing a good job lining your pen up with the starting point and these are confident for the most part however I can see you're focusing a little bit too much on accuracy, which causes some wobbling.
Next, your ghosted lines and planes are off to a good start however with similar problems where you're allowing your brain to take too much control over your lines. You may need to experiment with the speed at which you execute your linesin order to override this impulse, at least at first.
Ellipses
Onto your tables of ellipses and these are off to a great start. Your linework is confident for the most part, you've selected a good variety of shapes and sizes of ellipses to practice, and with the exception of the bottom set on each page, you've kept them squeezed up tight against each other. I noticed on both those pages, there's a bit of wobbling at the bottoms of those ellipses, I'm unsure if that's because the edge of the page is throwing your off or if you need to be rotating your page to get a better angle of approach for yourself.
Next, your elliipses in planes are looking fantastic. You're managing to hit the four sides of the plane in most cases and the linework is confident. Overall well done, there are a few little wobbles here and there that I'm confident will resolve with a bit of mileage in your warmups.
Finally, your funnels continue the trend of relatively confident linework. You've done a good job aligning the ellipses to the minor axis. If you really wanted to push this exercise to the next level, you can try varying the degrees of the ellipses.
Boxes
Onto your rough perspective and you've made clear efforts to keep the horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line. You've correctly applied the line extensions and your perspective lands in a pretty respectable margin of error. There is a little bit of hesitation in your lines, which is common as students often get a bit overwhelmed at the prospect of taking their lines and turning them into boxes so just remember to take your time to plan out each and every line of your box and execute confidently.
Next, your rotated boxes are off to a good start - you're doing a good job keeping the gaps between the boxes tight and consistent, which has given you good cues about where to place the next one and you've almost captured the full range of rotation on these, which is great to see. I'm not going to harp on too much about the line confidence as I'd addressed it previously but this does persist here.
Finally, you're getting a pretty good amount of variation in the size and rotation of your boxes in the organic perspective exercise which is starting to create a sense of depth in each frame, though you definitely could've pushed for more boxes in each frame. The line confidence does improve somewhat here, so I'm confident that the mileage you'll get through the 250 box challenge will iron out those last few wobbles.
Next Steps:
Feel free to move onto 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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