Hi Tozen,

I will be critiquing your homework today.

1. Superimposed lines

There is hardly any wobbling in the lines. Your curved lines are pretty good, and there is impressively little fraying at the starting point. While your shorter lines have minimal fraying, the longer lines have a great degree of fraying. This is fixable with warm-ups. Overall, this looks good.

2. Ghosted lines

You are very confident in your markmaking. However, there is visible overshooting in these lines. A few lines show a tiny bit of curving (that may be an odd reverting to drawing from the wrist/elbow). Overall, you seem to be hitting level 2 consistently on this. Including this exercise in your warm-ups frequently should help you level up.

3. Ghosted planes

Really good. Generally, your lines connect neatly, and the diagonals and bisectors meet properly in the center of each plane. However, the carry-over problem of overshooting is visible. Improving on ghosted lines exercise should help you with this.

4. Tables of ellipses

These are some neatly and snugly packed ellipses! Your ability to draw over the initial ellipse a second time is also excellent. Overall, these are great sheets.

5. Ellipses in planes

The first sheet of this exercise shows promise; snugly ellipses fitting into the 4 edges. However, I noticed here that your ellipses undershoot in the second sheet with larger planes, so I’d suggest ghosting and having a bit looser control to counteract that. It seems that while you can tackle small and medium-sized planes, you struggle with larger planes. I suggest you take up this exercise frequently in your warm-ups with larger planes to get more practice.

6. Funnels

These are some neatly and snugly packed ellipses! Your ability to draw over the initial ellipse a second time is also excellent. There is a lack of variety in the boundaries of the funnel; try making broader, more tapering, less tapering borders, and so on for different types of ellipses in your warm-up sessions.

7. Plotted perspective

The only thing to watch out for is some of your vertical lines being off sometimes (which is not something most people can get right in the first submission, so don't worry). The rest of the construction is solid.

8. Rough perspectives

While you have executed all the basic instructions of this exercise, there is a lack of variety and size of boxes. All the boxes seem conveniently close to the vanishing point and could use some boxes at varying positions, such as, near the extremes of the plane, on the horizon, and so on. This should be kept in mind for future warm-ups.

9. Rotated boxes

Sheet incomplete.

10. Organic perspective

Let me start by saying you did an excellent job of creating a sense of depth along the path by making the boxes bigger or smaller depending on where they fall on the path. You have skillfully applied shallow foreshortening in most of the boxes. This will only improve when you tackle 250 boxes. Make sure to draw the back face of the boxes next time you pick up this exercise for warm-ups to improve your spatial reasoning and rotation of boxes in free space.

I think you definitely have a good enough grasp of the material to continue working on your own in your warm-ups. However, I can not give you the green light for 250 boxes until you submit a sheet for the Rotated Boxes assignment. Do not worry about how bad it looks, just try it. You will have plenty of time to practice it again with warm-ups. You have great potential. Good Luck!