Hey Annie! I’ll be looking through your submission today.

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. One recommendation I have is to make your arcing lines a little bigger. Generally, the smaller a mark, the harder it is to make using the still-unfamiliar shoulder pivot. As such, for starting students, we recommend drawing a little bigger, as you familiarize yourself with it. The ghosted lines/planes look quite confident, too. It doesn’t seem like you used start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of the planes, however. Remember, all lines need to be drawn using the ghosting method (the first step of which is: plot start/end points.) Also, try to be a little less conscious of said end points. Specifically, don’t decrease the speed you’re drawing at, in an effort to not stop short of them, or overshoot them. A line that does, but maintains its smoothness/straightness, is much preferred to one that doesn’t, but wobbles near the end.

The table of ellipses exercise is mostly well done. It seems like the biggest issue here is the initial stiffness of your ellipses, though they do stabilize in their second rotation, usually. That’s not quite right, however. The purpose of the ghosting method is to familiarize your muscles with the movement you’ll be requesting of them. A stiff starting mark is an indication that you committed before you were ready. Be careful, also, that your ellipses are drawn through a consistent number of times. For some of the smaller ones, I notice that you’ve satisfied yourself with 1 and a half rotations, for others, it varies between 2-3. Try to keep it consistent, if you can, and be sure to rotate around them a minimum of 2 times (but no more than 3!) A little bit of that same stiffness is present in the ellipses in planes exercise, too. I’ll remind you that our mail goal here, is for our ellipses to be smooth, and rounded. Fitting snuggly into their respective frames is a secondary goal, certainly not worth it at the cost of said confidence. That said, that seems to be more of an exception, so don’t stress too much about it, beyond keeping it in mind. The funnels exercise is definitely the worst of the bunch, though, even then, the ellipses are snug, and properly cut in half by the minor axis. It’s just an issue of them being confident, and circular. I’ll request that you center the next few warmups around your ellipses, if you’re able. Start with just the table of ellipses exercise, and once you feel like you’ve got a grasp on it, move on to the more complicated ones.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean- nicely done.

The rough perspective exercise is a good start, though not quite there. First things first, your linework here is a little wobbly, though there’s no reason for it to be. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the magnitude of the task, but, really, what you’re doing here is no different from what you were doing in the earlier line exercises. At the very least, the process of drawing a line hasn’t changed, and this exercise, too, is just a collection of lines. Then there’s the convergences. It’s not uncommon to see some resistance here, as the student tries to draw a box as they think it should look (3 sets of 4 parallel lines), but, as we’re dealing with 1-point perspective, that’s not quite right. Instead, have faith in your points. With respect to that, I can’t say that I see too many unused points, here. Remember that you’re meant to plot a point, check it (by ghosting it all the way to the horizon), and alter it, until you’re satisfied. Don’t feel obligated to stick to your initial guesses.

The rotated boxes exercise is a little mixed, too. Here, also, the line quality is a little weak, but we’ve covered that. Instead, let’s talk about the boxes themselves. They’re snug, and do a good job of rotating, but they haven’t all been drawn through. The difficulty you’ve had with the outer layer is as a result of that; of not having neighboring edges to align your new lines to. Speaking of the outer layer, 4 boxes are missing, there (the cornermost ones.) That said, the goal is to see the exercise to the end, to the best of your ability, which you’ve done. You’ve even gone out of your way to add some hatching, so this is more than satisfactory.

Looking at your organic perspective exercise (how a line will often stop short, then be extended in a separate stroke, specifically), I find myself wondering if these lines have been drawn using the ghosting method, or arbitrarily. Remember that every single line you draw, is to be drawn with the ghosting method. Plot points, ghost between them, then execute. There’s some issues with the foreshortening of your boxes, too, likely because of the same reason. They do, however, do a good job of following the flow line, increasing in size as they do, so the illusion is nonetheless conveyed.