Congratulations on completing lesson 1. Just from a glance, I can tell you put a lot of work into this. This work ethic will help a lot in future lessons. Let's look at the submission in more detail.

Lines

• Your superimposed lines look good. They don't arch. You avoided fraying on both ends and show few signs of wobbling. You even follow curved lines pretty well. Good job!

• Ghosted lines looks good

• Ghosted planes look good. My only piece of advice would be to remember to fill the page completely. Especially on page two, there are a few places where you could have added more planes. More planes means more practice!

Ellipses

• Excellent job adding variety to your ellipse tables. Do you mind if I steal a few of your ideas the next time I practice? :D

• All the same, remember to draw your ellipses carefully so they don't overlap or extend beyond the boundary lines. You seem to be more comfortable with small ellipses. You waver more on large ellipses. Next time you practice ellipse tables, consider focusing on larger ellipses.

• Good work on funnels. The minor axis generally splits your ellipses in half. There are a few places where the ellipses could be closer together; make sure to be careful with that.

• You might also consider arranging your funnels into columns, which will help you put more funnels on a single page.

Boxes

• Good work on plotted and rough perspective: you keep vertical lines orthogonal to the horizon and horizontal lines parallel to it. In the 250 box challenge, you'll practice positioning boxes relative to the vanishing point, and your accuracy at this skill will improve.

• Excellent work on rotated boxes

• Very good work on organic perspective. Consider adding subtle lineweight to the closer boxes and the closest part of the organic line. This will enhance the illusion of depth.

Hello and great job completing lesson 1, I will be taking a look at your submission.

For your lines exercise, your superimposed lines have a clear starting point at one end, with fraying at the other. The thing you seem to struggle with is keeping the line continuous on the page, especially on the longer lines with all their shakiness, but they will improve over time as you get used to drawing from your shoulder. Your curved superimposed lines are, however, draw unconfidently, so always draw continuously without any deviations. The ghosted lines and ghosted planes are done well with smoothly drawn lines with a fair amount of accuracy, something that will develop over time as you practice with the ghosting method on your warm-ups. One little thing that seems to be of issue here is the slight arcing, caused by either not really drawing from your shoulder or by a natural habit of yours. If the latter, all it takes is to consciously bend the line in the opposite direction to cancel out the bending there. So far, you understood the purpose of these exercises, that is to introduce you to drawing from your shoulder and drawing confidently.

Your ellipses have some problems with both symmetry and wobbling. Early on, an ellipse will be loose as you draw through it, so it is normal to see and will close down with time and practice. However, it appears you are instead thinking about keeping the ellipse accurate withing the cell, and snugged up. This is causing conscious intervention creating all the little deviations you see there and kills both the smoothness and symmetry of your ellipse. For one, an ellipse must be cut in two symmetrical halves through the minor axis, that being the narrowest span of the ellipse. It is of great importance that you ensure this symmetry by drawing them confidently and through them at least twice or three times, so do not prioritize accuracy, as that will undermine it. So far, for your table of ellipses you did well, keeping the angle and degree consistent through the cell and. The *ellipses in planes** also were done well, with you striving to keep them bound to the edges of the planes. Finally, your funnels are done well but can be improved with practice, seeing as you are having trouble keeping the ellipses snugged against one another, but you did get the idea to align the ellipses with the minor axis, which was the point of the exercise. You should practice these exercises in your warm-ups and ensure that you draw your ellipses confidently with no wobbling.

Boxes are a great form to think about perspective, with its lines obeying the vanishing points they point towards. The plotted perspective gets you used to the vanishing points, so they are a great introductory exercise. Yours was done well, and I see no problems with it. All the lines were guessed using your intuition on the rough perspective exercise, so it is normal to see accuracy being quite lacking early on. But not something you should be concerned about right now, you have tons of boxes to practice with. Mayor thing I would like to point out is your line quality, it appears you are prioritizing accuracy and redoing your lines that were off the end point. Avoid redoing your lines no matter how off they come out and make sure you draw confidently, remember that accuracy is not something you can control when drawing smoothly. Rotated boxes are done well with, you kept the boxes close to one another and this helped you better guess how they would rotate in space by looking out for its surroundings as clues. There are very little issues I can find here, other than forgetting to draw the outer corners of the sphere. One bit of advice I can give is to draw bigger boxes when rotating to make it easier to tackle the exercise. Finally, your organic perspective exercise is done quite well, with your boxes rotating freely in space and decreasing in size to create the illusion of depth. You have some more practicing with your box construction, but already you are off to a great start. One thing to keep in mind is to ensure that the initial Y’s angles need to be greater than 90 degrees to prevent some wonky-ness you see. Don’t worry about that too much, this is a really hard exercise, and you did very well for your first attempt.

Overall, this is a great attempt, and you did well understanding the purpose of each exercise. The only thing I believe you need to work on is your confidence for both your lines and ellipses. So incorporate them into your warm-ups for 10-15 minutes before tackling any draw a box exercise. You can move on to the 250 box challenge, an important exercise to further develop your spacial reasoning skills, so I encourage you to go through it. I will mark your lesson as complete. Good luck on the challenge and congratulations on completing lesson 1!