Focus entirely on forms. That doesn't mean you can't get into detail - just that the detail you do choose to add itself needs to be made up of solid forms positioned and oriented in specific ways using subdivision. Sometimes students make the mistake of thinking of detail as a separate step, where they're allowed to "wing it" and just put things down willy-nilly. Everything is construction, it's just a matter of scale.
My redo - https://imgur.com/a/est9lvh
I timed out how long I spent on the back of my drawings in an effort to slow down, and spend some more time on each drawing.
I added some notes on the imgur upload under each image.
for #3,4,5 and 6 I ended up drawing one of my vanishing points on the notepad behind my paper, the points that led to a rapid convergence. I don't know if I should have, since building up my intuition for perspective is part of the assignments, but I can just make a new submission without doing that if needed.
I did not do any side/front studies for these like I did with my original submissions.
I had some questions I was going to ask, but It is late, I'm tired, so I'll just end here.
Edit - Looking at my submission I may have drawn both my vanishing points rather than 1 (behind my paper) for #3 and 5 as well, I can't remember for sure
So to clarify a few points:
Throughout the entirety of this course, you're being made to focus on the relationships between the members of given sets of parallel lines, using those relationships to help infer their vanishing points so you don't have to actually have a concrete vanishing point floating around somewhere on your desk. We basically only work with actually drawing vanishing points in two exercises way back in Lesson 1 (the plotted perspective exercise, then the rough perspective boxes exercise) in order to introduce the concept. From then on, we attempt to focus on the parts of the drawing that are more guaranteed to be on the page. Long story short - don't actually draw vanishing points when working through this course.
You say you didn't do any proportional studies (like those shown in this step of the Shelby Mustang demo. If you know there is a step that will help provide you with more useful information to use in your construction to perform the task to the best of your current ability, there is no good reason not to do so.
I also wanted to point out that making the lines parallel as you did for #1 (rather than just being shallower in their foreshortening, you appear to have put all the vanishing points at infinity) is incorrect. As discussed way back in Lesson 1, a vanishing point only goes to infinity when the lines in question are running perpendicular to the angle of view. It's a very specific orientation, that was definitely not being used by this truck. In every other situation, there will be some foreshortening. Whether it's more rapid/dramatic or gradual/shallow will depend on the scale of the object, and how close it is to the viewer as explained here. In this case, your truck's pretty sizeable, so it's going to have some visible foreshortening for sure, though not as much as a building might.
Now looking at your other vehicle constructions, you've got some that are definitely coming along pretty well - like this food truck. You appear to have approached it quite patiently, laying out a lot of subdivisions and positioning each edge with a great deal of specificity. comparatively, the Maluch wasn't quite as well done, for a couple reasons: you drew it quite small on the page, leaving you much less room to maneuver, and you jumped into curves a little more quickly than you should have. All things considered though, it was still an improvement from your last submission.
The bulldozer and locomotive were quite well constructed as well, and you handled the boxy structures well. Overall you're definitely moving in the right direction, enough that I am going to mark this lesson, and the course as a whole, as complete. That said, mind what I said at the start - try to work more with the implied convergences of your lines to determine how any newly added lines should be oriented, rather than by actually drawing concrete vanishing points, when doing these kinds of exercises. Also, make sure that you don't skip over anything - if you consciously skip a step, you'd better have a good reason for doing so.
Congratulations on getting all the way through the course.
This is another one of those things that aren't sold through Amazon, so I don't get a commission on it - but it's just too good to leave out. PureRef is a fantastic piece of software that is both Windows and Mac compatible. It's used for collecting reference and compiling them into a moodboard. You can move them around freely, have them automatically arranged, zoom in/out and even scale/flip/rotate images as you please. If needed, you can also add little text notes.
When starting on a project, I'll often open it up and start dragging reference images off the internet onto the board. When I'm done, I'll save out a '.pur' file, which embeds all the images. They can get pretty big, but are way more convenient than hauling around folders full of separate images.
Did I mention you can get it for free? The developer allows you to pay whatever amount you want for it. They recommend $5, but they'll allow you to take it for nothing. Really though, with software this versatile and polished, you really should throw them a few bucks if you pick it up. It's more than worth it.
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