Hi AmishCyborg!

Congrats on getting through lesson 1! Here is my critique:

Lines

In your lines I see a little wobble, but I think the wobble lessens as the exercises progress. The most important quality of the lines is that they are straight and confident, which yours are mostly. For the super-imposed lines, the most notable thing is that your lines fray very quickly (although they don't fray at the very beginning). Maybe add superimposed lines to your warm-up exercises until you can more cleanly draw (using your shoulder) directly on top of a straight, ruler-drawn line.

Also, I think you didn't plot all the lines you drew. One thing that will hone your accuracy is regularly having a clear target to hit. For example, did you draw dots to plan the lines that bisected your planes in the ghosted planes exercise? You should practice drawing the dots before every line.

Ellipses

With the exception of the first two circles, it appears all your ellipses are drawn through two times, which is perfect. I see some ellipses floating (not touching the bounding box), but I can see you made an effort to keep the ellipses within and touching the bounds, each ellipse touching each other, without overlapping. That's the goal.

Just like with straight lines, we want to eliminate any wobble in ellipses in favor of confident, smooth stroke (even if the ellipse is inaccurate).

Your funnels are well done, but on several of them the line you drew is off from the middle, so it can't easily be used to gauge the accuracy of your ellipse. Still, I think the ellipses tend to be symmetric relative to the midline of the funnel, which is good. (Some are wobbly; you want to try to draw ellipse that don't wobble first and then try to draw them accurately.)

Boxes

In your rough perspective, your lines have quite a bit of wobble. Also, throughout all your boxes exercises, there are many lines that appear to have been re-drawn because the first pass was a mistake. NEVER re-draw a line, no matter how "wrong" it is. You are expected to keep drawing the rest of the figure using the "wrong" line as if it's correct. This is admittedly really tough, but thems the breaks.

I think you have the same problem here I mentioned before in that you didn't plot your lines. I think you just ghosted over a blank spot on the page without dots to guide you (please let me know if I'm wrong). The great thing about plotting with dots, that if the dot is wrong or off you can alter it and place a new dot. But once the line is down, it's down.

On rough perspective, width lines should be parallel to horizon and height lines perpendicular to horizon. I think you managed this mostly, but some of those lines do stray off diagonally.

On one box you have a note "This 1 is good but still looks bad"- I think by "good", you're referring to the perspective lines going to the same vanishing point. However, you might notice that the back face is crooked (the horizontal lines are not parallel). The right face of the box looks larger than the left face, but it should be SMALLER because it's further from the viewer. This just goes to show that because a box is "good" by one metric (1 set of lines meeting a vanishing point), doesn't mean the whole box is fine. But, it's much easier to FOCUS on one metric at a time! So for these lessons you'll often be drawing stuff "right" according to what the lesson wants you to focus on, but it won't look pretty.

Great effort with the rotated boxes! You didn't need to do two pages (and in the future I recommend against doing more than the required homework), but I can see why you wanted the practice. You made a point to have each box have different vanishing points, even though it made those corner boxes really tough.

I like your organic perspective (except for I think you didn't plot your lines and you made corrective marks which should be eliminated). You seem hesitant to draw the boxes on top of each other. You'll had more depth to your art when you aren't afraid to put objects "behind" and "in front" of each other in space while representing them on your page. Also, for the final page, you didn't draw the "behind" boxes all the way through. You stopped drawing the lines where the viewer would stop seeing them. Don't do that!! We want to visualize the 3D reality of these boxes, not just what's visible in our specific 2D perspective. If you want to distinguish what box is on top, lineweight should be added with confident ghosted lines, and solely to the part of lines to overlap.

Overall, there are a couple of key things for you to keep in mind moving forward: focus on drawing straight, confident lines using plotted point, drawing confident ellipses and circles, and don't ever re-draw or correct a line. I believe you understand the lesson well enough to move forward to the 250 box challenge! Remember to do warm-ups to practice the things outlined in this critique.