Hi! Very quickly, before I begin, though you’re allowed to submit your old lesson 1, everything henceforth needs to be updated, or entirely redone. The box challenge is the former: you can submit your old box challenge, but need to submit an additional 50 boxes that have been done recently. Anything beyond that (lesson 2+) needs to be redone, so that it 1. Reflects your current ability, and 2. Takes advantage of the critique the TAs will offer, as opposed to repeating the same mistakes. So I would recommend putting lesson 3 on hold right now, and instead working on the 50 new boxes (that improve as per the suggestions in this critique). Once you’ve completed those you’ll, of course, need to wait 2 weeks to submit, so I’ll suggest spending that time drawing for fun. I hope this makes sense. Onto the critique.

Your superimposed lines look solid. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. The ghosted lines/planes look fairly confident, also, though I notice a few things. 1. You’ve not plotted start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of the planes. 2. Where there are points, you’re too conscious of them. Don’t change the line’s trajectory, if you notice it isn’t going to hit the point; rather, make sure that the line is smooth, and straight, no matter what.

The table of ellipses exercise is well done. Your ellipses are smooth, and rounded, though sometimes drawn through a little much. 2-3 times is the recommendation; for you, I’ll recommend 2. Also, see if you can lift your pen off the page at the end of your rotations, rather than flicking it off, to get rid of those tails. Save for having been drawn through too much, the ellipses in planes and funnels exercises looks good. For the former, remember to prioritize roundness, not accuracy. For the latter, don’t be careful that all of your ellipses (the ones at the very edge of the funnel, particularly) are snug with the frame.

The plotted perspective exercise is missing quite a few of its back lines.

The rough perspective exercise is missing its correction lines. This is bad. Having done a second page, without having reviewed the mistakes of the first (by looking at the correction lines), means that you’ve wasted an opportunity to improve, and likely embedded some of your errors. I’ll hold off on judging this until I’ve seen them.

The rotated boxes exercise is also difficult to judge, because the hatching lines obstruct a lot of the linework. A few things regarding that, actually. For one, its scratchy. It doesn’t seem like you’ve used the ghosting method here – you should use it everywhere. Second, it seems like you’ve not drawn every box all the way through, but rather just drawn their front faces, and added back lines where visible; this is incorrect. Your exercise should look like this before any hatching is added. And in regards to that, the hatching here (and everywhere else) should look like it does in the example (or, if it helps, in your rough perspective exercise).

Finally, the organic perspective exercise looks good, but you should’ve only added lineweight to overlapping boxes, to clarify what’s in front, and maybe to the ones closes to us; not all of them. The reason for this is simple: lineweight makes things read like they’re close to us, but for the boxes in the back, that’s the opposite of what you want. Be a little more careful with regards to their sizes, too. Everything else looks good, though; the boxes flow well.