Hello I’ll be handling the critique for your lesson 1 homework.

Lines

-Starting with the superimposed lines exercise I can see that you are always starting at a clearly defined point and keeping all of the wavering on one side, your lines fray quite a bit though, do not stress too much about this as it only means that you need more time to get comfortable with engaging your whole arm.

-Moving on to the ghosted lines, your linework is coming along nicely and you are using the ghosting method to good effect. I like to see that you are drawing confident lines even if you are going to miss the ending dot, this will get better as you keep practicing and eventually your lines will be more accurate.

-The ghosted planes are no different from the ghosted lines, here your linework is looking confident, although you have trouble with overshooting so try to use the method .here

Ellipses

-Starting with the tables of ellipses these are well done and I can see that you have kept the alignment, spacing and degree of this in mind, you also have drawn through them as needed.

-Moving to the ellipses in planes, do not worry too much about having your ellipses touch the four sides of the plane, as it can make them distorted and wobbly, your priority should be drawing smooth and elliptical shapes even if they end up floating inside the plane. Overall your work is turning out nicely and was affected by this in a few instances.

-The funnels are well done, the spacing is right as the ellipses do not spill out of the boundaries, keep working on the alignment and remember that the minor axis should cut the ellipses in equal halves.

Boxes

-Starting with the rough perspective I like to see that you have kept the confident linework which helped your boxes look more solid and believable, I have one thing to call out: You used the lines extension method incorrectly.

*Using a ruler, take all of your depth lines (those that are meant to converge towards the vanishing point) and extend them to where they intersect with the horizon.

We are not plotting these red lines back to the VP - just to the horizon line. This will show us a concrete idea of how far off we were.*

Keep this in mind for future attempts.

-There are a number of things to improve in the rotated boxes. First try to use more of the space available to you in the page, this will help you when drawing your marks as it will be easier to engage your whole arm. Try to use the sides of adjacent boxes as hints to draw your next box, this will help you to have each quadrant equally sized. If you need to take some time to study the example homework and use it as reference.

-You are doing a good job on the organic perspective, and your box constructions are looking solid and believable, just try to use lineweight on the edge of the boxes to reinforce which ones are at the front closer to us.

You have done a good job overall so I’ll mark this lesson as complete and move you to the box challenge.