Hiya, fiddlewheel, and thanks for waiting! Deleting a submission is as simple as asking Uncomfortable on discord (most commonly in the report an issue channel), but it’s perfectly fine staying up, too – a second opinion can’t hurt. As for your next thought, it cut off mid-sentence, but I hope I’ll be able to land on it somewhere in my critique. Speaking of, let’s get to it!

Starting off, I only see 1 page of superimposed lines (the requirement, you’ll recall, is 2). What’s here is mostly alright, though one issue I notice is that, on some occasions, you’ll change the trajectory of your line mid-line – don’t. Also, try not to spend so long lining up your pen to the correct starting point that you lose the built-up rhythm, but also don’t do it so little that the line doesn’t seem to make an effort to – it’s a fine balance. Moving on to your ghosted planes, I’m realizing now that your pages are (I suppose?) A3 in size? If so, then the 1 page of superimposed lines is fine as it is, in terms of amount. The ghosted lines/planes are, as you’ve yourself noted, quite wobbly. Though I wouldn’t be as quick to blame ghosting too much for it – in our experience, it’s generally the opposite. The best way to know, of course, is to experiment. I’ll, in all likelihood, request some extra pages of you, at the end of this submission. For your ghosted lines, what I’d like you to do (I’ll explain it here so as to not clog up the next steps section), is to draw a number of lines of the same length, at different speeds. Start with one that is obviously too slow, and then gradually increase your speed, until you reach one that is obviously too fast. The line you’re looking for is the most accurate one, that has no wobbles. (And, note, that it doesn’t have to be accurate – just the most accurate of the group.) Draw a couple of more lines at that speed, to internalize it, and then do the exercises at that same pace.

The table of ellipses exercise is more of the same, unfortunately. I do notice, however, that the ellipses seem to gain some confidence in their second and third rotations, so the issue is with the commitment, specifically, it seems. See, then, if you can ghost enough that you’re not figuring out your mark ‘on the go’, but rather have settled on it before you commit to it. And, even if you haven’t, the goal isn’t to draw an accurate mark, but rather to draw the same mark that you’ve been ghosting, and not concern yourself with how it looks. Be careful, also, that all of your marks are drawn using your shoulder. Some of your ellipses, I notice, are a little pointy, and this is usually an indication of a lesser pivot working its way in – always check back, to make sure it doesn’t. The ellipses in planes and funnels exercises are well done as far as their respective instructions go, and the confidence of your ellipses increases throughout the set, too. By the end, your ellipses are looking quite solid, actually. Some of the smaller ones have some issues, still, but I’d wager that this is mostly due to their size (it’s harder to engage the shoulder for small marks, as I’m sure you’ve noticed). As such, my only recommendation to you would be to draw big.

The plotted perspective exercise is well done.

The rough perspective exercise is mixed. The convergences start off a little lacking, but show some nice improvement throughout the set. The linework, on the other hand, is bad throughout. One recommendation is, of course, to own every bad line. What I mean by that, is to stick to your initial one, rather than drawing a line that came out wrong a second time, as if the extra ink will do anything to fix your previous mistake. It won’t; it’ll just make it easier to spot, and develop an unhealthy habit of only acceptation perfection. It’s fine to make mistakes. As for issues concerning the linework itself, beyond making your boxes bigger (for the same reason as in the funnels exercise!), what I’ll recommend is the same thing I did for the ghosted lines exercise. After all, these exercises don’t differ that much, in that sense – they’re all just ghosted lines, put to different purposes.

The rotated boxes exercise looks good, if a little small. The linework is a little improved, too, but here, also, you’ll have a line stop short, and continue it in a separate stroke. As mentioned, each line is to be drawn once, and only once. Also, as far as lineweight is concerned, one superimposed line is generally enough to convey what we’re looking for. And I use that term deliberately, because that’s, really, all it is. There’s no need for it to be any less confident than the superimposed lines in your superimposed lines exercise, because that’s all it is. Try not to let the big picture overwhelm you – it’s really all just the same concepts, put into different perspectives. Anyway, moving on to the exercise itself, the boxes are snug, and rotate nicely. Not so much in the back (you’ve forgotten to draw through some of those, too!), but that’s expected. Give this exercise another shot post the box challenge, and you’ll see yourself much improved.

The organic perspective exercise has your lines at their best (and I’m pleased to see that you’ve started plotting start/end points for all of them, too (I noticed that you didn’t, for the non-diagonal center lines of your ghosted planes exercise)), but they’re, still, a little lacking. Every other aspect of this exercise is well done, however, so that’s the only part of it that we’ll need to work on, before you’re able to be sent off to the box challenge.