Hello, and welcome. Let’s take this one exercise at a time, shall we?

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. I have 2 recommendations. First, draw a tiny bit slower. I notice a little hook at the end of your lines, indicative that your pen isn’t fully off the page, before you drag it back to the starting point. Second, make your arcing lines a little (or like, a lot) larger if you can. The smaller a movement, the more difficult it is to nail with the shoulder pivot, so we recommend drawing bigger when starting out. The ghosted lines/planes are mostly good, but there is the occasional wobbly line. Remember that our priority lies in a line’s confidence, rather than its accuracy. This is to say, that a line that’s smooth, and straight, is correct, regardless of how off it may be, and one that isn’t, isn’t, regardless of whether it nails the end point, or stops right at it.

The table of ellipses exercise has a few issues, though this is a good start. The first, is that your ellipses start off stiff, in their first rotation, then stabilize in their second one. This is not ideal. Instead, you want to be confident from the get-go. Do this by ghosting until comfortable, then committing. Any earlier, and your insecurities will be reflected in your marks. Second, be mindful of your pivot. A pointy ellipse is, more often than not, an indication of a lesser one (elbow/wrist), so be sure to check back every once in a while, to confirm that you haven’t ‘moved down the line.’ Finally, see if you can lift your pen at the end of your rotations, rather than flick it off, to fix that change in trajectory at the end. The ellipses in planes are a little too focused on accuracy, unfortunately, as evidenced by their frequent bumps. Try to keep them rounded, instead. The funnels exercise shows improvements in these respects, but I’d continue pushing in that direction. Also, if you can, I’d recommend sticking to 2 rotations, not 3.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean- nicely done.

The rough perspective exercise is, unfortunately, a little rough. First things first, the linework is wobbly, and there’s a bunch of automatic reinforcing present. Remind yourself that what you’re doing here is no different from what you were doing in the ghosted lines exercise. There’s no reason for this dip in confidence. The convergences have a few issues, too. Mainly, the lines rarely make too much of an effort to converge. Be careful that you’re not getting too caught up in what you think a box should look like – and therefore trying to make all of its sets be parallel – and instead pay attention to the vanishing point. Feel free to plot as many points as you need, and, as you alter the lines so that they’re parallel/perpendicular to the horizon, as per the instructions (nice job in that respect, by the way!), continue being mindful of the vanishing point, too. If you need all of this put into context, check out Scylla’s run-through of the exercise on YouTube. Consider following along with it.

Though the issues in line confidence persist, the rotated boxes exercise is mostly good. It’s big (huge positive!), the boxes are snug, and properly drawn through, but they don’t quite rotate. One reason for this could be the absence of the ‘reminder boxes’, though it’s not like this is something that’s easy to do, regardless. Still, try to be a little more mindful of the instructions. For the most part, the only obvious error here is the occasional diverging line, insight of which you’ll gain as you progress through the 250 box challenge, so no need to stress about it right now.

The organic perspective exercise is… not great. Your linework is really, really scratchy, for whatever reason. It’s also not particularly confident, though we’ve addressed that in a previous section. That said, the boxes themselves look fine, and flow fine, as per their increase in size, and mostly shallow foreshortening, so there’s that.

Before I have you move on to the box challenge, I’d like to see a few things: