Hi!

Here's my critique of your lesson 1 homework.

Lines

Superimposed lines - You've done a pretty good job with these. You've prevented fraying at the start of your lines and there are a few places where you've managed to keep the fraying at the ends of your lines minimal - keep aiming for that! When you repeat this exercise in your warm-ups, try a few longer lines (with your page rotated 90 degrees, so that you can draw along its long edge).

Ghosted lines - definitely keep working on these in your warmups. Many of your line have a slight curve/wobble, and most overshoot the end point. Focus on the wobble first, and after that, on stopping at the correct time.

Ghosted Planes - you seem to have the right idea, but most of your planes are quite small - don't be afraid to try larger ones (this may require nesting them more neatly on the page). Practicing longer lines and larger ellipses will help you in future exercises - you don't want to be caught only knowing how to draw small lines! This will also force you to use your shoulder more.

Ellipses

Table of ellipses - pretty good, you've done a good job of controlling the degrees of your ellipses and of making them touch the sides of the cells. You seem to be struggling with keeping the smaller and lower degree ellipses smooth in particular, so perhaps give some extra attention to these in your warmups.

Ellipses in planes - you've done a good job of making the ellipses touch the sides of the planes, but some of the ellipses are wobbly - it's important to continue drawing them with speed and confidence. Keep practicing making your ellipses tight and smooth.

Funnels - you've done a good job of controlling the degree of your ellipses. The above advice about trying to eliminate wobbles applies here too.

Boxes

Plotted Perspective - you seem to have understood this exercise well. If you repeat this exercise, make sure that your verticals are really vertical, and not angled slightly. Also, just note that in the 250 box challenge, we're encouraged to do a similar type of hatching on one side of our boxes. Be aware that the recommended way to draw this hatching is to ghost each line and to draw it from edge to edge, deliberately, rather than drawing lines quickly in the middle of the box, as you've done here. (the upper right box in your second panel is an example of "good" hatching - all boxes should have this).

Rough perspective - You've fairly done a good job at aiming the receding lines toward the vanishing points. Note that when half of the back face is on one side of the VP and half is on the other, the converging lines will actually point toward each other (1 point perspective), similar to when half the box is above the horizon line and when half is below it. The front faces of the boxes are lacking - neither straight lines nor lines drawn at 90 degrees to each other. Did you ghost your lines? We are supposed to use the ghosting method in ALL exercises. On the second rough perspective sheet, you've also missed a few lines (on the back faces of the boxes). You also have a tendency to draw your boxes extremely small (perhaps to hide any potential line wobble?) Don't do this - face your fears! When you redo this exercise, try drawing larger boxes to fill up the space.

Rotated boxes - missing

Organic Perspective - Again, make sure you are ghosting your lines. You are drawing your lines with a wobble. This will make the 250 boxes much more difficult. It is better to overshoot the endpoint and draw them straight, than to draw them the right length but wobbly. The edges of your boxes here should be just as straight as your were able to draw them in the ghosted planes exercise.

General notes

• try not to use whiteout - a small "x" on or near a line is sufficient, if you are really displeased with it.

• when you upload your images to imgur, it helps if you use the navigational panel on the right (on desktop, not sure about mobile) to rearrange the images to be in the correct order. This will make your reviewer's life much easier :)

Sky