Welcome back! I’m Benj, one of the TAs here, and I’ll be looking over your lesson 1 submission. Let’s start.

Your superimposed lines look solid. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. There’s the occasional stiffness in some of the smaller arcing ones, but this is expected, as small movements are really difficult to get right from the shoulder. As such, we recommend sticking to the larger ones, for now. The ghosted lines/planes exercises are well done. My only critique is a minor one: to use start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of the planes (as you should be doing for all lines).

The table of ellipses exercise starts off strong, and improves significantly in its second page. In it, you address a lot of the things I was going to point out, like the stiffness first rotation, the inconsistent number of rotations, and the flick at the end – keep it up! The ellipses in planes maintain that same level of confidence, and do a good job of hitting all 4 sides of the plane, too. Finally, the funnels are mostly good, though you do here revert to not rotating around your ellipses a full 2 times, settling instead for 1 and change. Similar to the lines section, this exercise, also, will benefit from larger ellipses, by the way, so see if you can make the switch.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean. Small tip, in regards to the back line: rather than double down on your error, and claim that it is somehow not perpendicular to the horizon, simply estimate the position of the back line, in such a way that it is. You don’t want a simple measurement error to be seen as a claim that perspective works differently from how we know it to.

The boxes in the rough perspective exercise show some resistance at first, but do eventually converge quite comfortably by the end. Still, as there is the odd box that seems not to make an effort to, as well as the occasional line that’s not parallel/perpendicular to the horizon, I’ll recommend that you spend a little longer on the planning stage. As you know, you’re not obligated to stick to your initial guesses, so continue altering a point until you find it to be satisfactory.

The rotated boxes exercise looks great. It’s a little small, but you’ve seen it through to the end, and performed quite well at it, too. I especially appreciate the addition of lineweight/hatching at the end – it makes it a lot easier to understand. From it, I can see that the boxes are snug, and you’ve made good use of the neighboring edges, and even the far planes of your boxes are mostly correct. There’s the occasional issue regarding their depth lines converging, rather than diverging, but this is something we get to in the box challenge, so there’s no need to worry about it now.

Finally, the organic perspective exercise is well done, what with the boxes showing a consistent increase in size, and some nice, shallow foreshortening. That said, it seems like you opted not to use the ghosting method here. Specifically, I’m referring to the step where you plot start/end points for your lines. It’s important to use that for every single mark that you make, rather than assume that you’ll get it right, or, worse, try to think about multiple things at once.