9:04 AM, Thursday March 20th 2025
Thanks for yours! Let’s take this one exercise at a time, then.
Starting with your superimposed lines, these are nicely done. I’m happy to see that you’ve filled your pages to the brim, though, next time, see if you can’t make your arcing lines a little bigger (this is to say, don’t just use them to fill up the leftover spots, but rather give them their own spot). Drawing bigger is helpful because it’s the motion that the shoulder is best at, so we encourage it! Anyway, your lines are smooth and straight, though not always of a consistent trajectory so be mindful of that. If you see a line going off course, keep onto that course, rather than course correcting. Your ghosted lines/planes are quite confident, also, save for at the ends. It looks like what’s happening is that you’re stopping short of your end points, and then making an effort to limp to the finish line in one final, forced stroke. This is not necessary! As before, we want our lines to be smooth and straight (and we don’t particularly care if they’re inaccurate), so if a line stops short, it stops short – that’s perfectly fine. By the way, I don’t believe you’ve actually plotted start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes, so please do, moving forward.
The table of ellipses exercise starts that section off well. You’ve got a good amount of ellipses here, and they’re nice and varied, too. All of them are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through, as well. I do notice some little tails at the ends of their rotations though, so it’s likely that you’re flicking the pen off the page when you reach the end. See if you can’t lift it off, instead (maintaining the ghosting motion until it is!) The ellipses in planes do a good job of maintaining that same confidence, despite these more complex frames. There’s one instance where you prioritize accuracy, but for the most part you seem quite content to boldly push forward in pursuit of confidence, come what may (this is the correct attitude, by the way!) My one recommendation for you moving forward is to stick to 2, not 3, total rotations. This is more difficult (less rotations to ‘smooth’ things out), but it’ll also make it that much easier to see your mistakes, so you’ll be able to guide your own way forward as we transition away from ellipses during the box challenge. Finally, the funnels look solid. Another second or two on the ghosting might’ve helped, given the occasional spacing issues, but on the whole, your ellipses here are confident, snug, and properly cut in half.
The plotted perspective exercise starts the box section off well. Your boxes here are well constructed, and their back lines are all correct. Your hatching is a little insecure however, likely because (for whatever reason!) you decided not to have it extend from one edge to the next, but rather float inside of the plane. This is not the way we do it, usually. The rough perspective exercise starts off strong, and shows some good improvement throughout the set. By the end, its linework is confident, and its convergences are on point. You’ll benefit from drawing some bigger boxes here, and not having them stretch quite so far towards the horizon, next you try. Good attempt at the rotated boxes exercise! I’m certainly glad to see each quadrant being so different from the others – it tells me that you were open to experimentation, rather than sticking to what you know. Your boxes here are big, and show some good rotation, and this last bit is the case in the back, also, which should be quite complex for this stage in the course – well done! Finally, the organic perspective exercise is nicely done. You’ve got a great number of boxes here, and they all flow well due to their size and foreshortening. (Their size is perhaps a little too similar, and there’s not as much extreme scale (on either end of the spectrum), but it’s a minor thing, and one that doesn’t much harm your compositions, anyway.) Be careful with the hatching, however. Given the little arcs at the end of each line, I’d say that you’re going at it a little too fast (pulling the pen back before it’s had a chance to come off the page), so be careful that that doesn’t instill any bad habits in you!
Next Steps:
I’m marking this lesson as complete, and sending you off to the box challenge. Best of luck to you!




