Hello, good of you to realise and actually seek feedback on your homework for lesson 1! Feedback is how we all improve after all!
Lines
Superimposed lines are looking good, although I am missing some curved lines. While straight lines were absolutely the main thing here, it was stated that you should try some curves as well, so I'd encourage you to try and do that!
Your ghosted lines are looking sharp! Very straight, no wobble, no arc, but you are overshooting your lines quite a lot, and it's not an issue here but...
Your first page of ghosted planes is were overshooting your lines becomes an issue, it is a bit difficult to make out the individual planes as there are so many lines, you seem to have gotten this sorted by page two though, so I won't ask for a revision on it, just be mindful of it. If it is difficult for you to halt the line, try just lifting the pen instead of stopping the movement, it might be easier for you!
Elipses
Your tables of elipses are looking good to me, in some segments though they are not fully touching the sides of the tables but since this only sporadically, I won't tell you to redo this either, keep it in your mind just!
Elipses in planes are looking good, the elipses are even and drawn through the correct amount of times, but here you are once again overshooting your lines a bit, making it a bit difficult to separate the planes. A slight tendency to redraw lines canalso be seen, and I get it, trust me Ireally do, you want the lines to be correct but that is not the main focus here. If a line is wonky that is not the end of the world, but trying to correct it will not make things better.
Funnels are looking good to me! One of them has the elipses not quite touching eachother but it is only one of them so not a major problem!
Boxes
Plotted perspective looks good to me, you have some quite heavy distortion of the boxes above the horizon and most to both of the sides but the perspective is correct! However, you have not drawn through your boxes as stated in the exercise, if you add it to this one or redo it completely is up to you, but please make sure to read the exercises thourougly!
Rough perspective I'm afraid is incomplete. In the lesson it is stated that you should draw the lines back to the horizon to see how far off you were. Since this has not been done I cannot properly critique this. You also seem to have hairy lines here, lines need to be one swift stroke, just as in all other exercises. These boxes are not drawn through either, re-read the exercise, look at the example homework and revise this please! Trust me, it'll help immensely for the 250 box challenge!
Rotated boxes, the boxes are barely rotating, this is an issue that Uncomfortable brings up in the exercise text and I encourage you to go back, read it and revise this. Also, again, draw through your boxes, trust me, it will help!
The organic perspective looks good to me, though in the exercise it seems to be more than one panel per page (same with rough perspective). Since this looks good though, I will not ask revisions of this.
TL:DR, please, read the exercises. You draw well, but there are many faults in not completing the exercise as it is described to you making it difficult or impossible to critique some of this.
Next Steps:
1 Page of ghosted lines (be careful not to overshoot the lines)
2 Pages of Rough perspective
1 Page Rotated boxes
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