Hi! A couple of things real quick. First, don’t redo an exercise unless instructed. How clean it looks is irrelevant for our purposes, these being just exercises, and, even more importantly, that time could’ve been spent doing something else. Second, though it’s fine (albeit not ideal) to start, and perhaps even finish, the box challenge before getting your lesson 1 critique, this does not apply to lesson 2. I’d advise you not to start it until you’ve had your box challenge marked as completed. Until then, feel free to work on your other 50%. Now, let’s take this one section at a time.

Starting off, your superimposed lines look good, if a little loose. They’re smooth, and of a consistent trajectory, but they’ll sometimes fray. There’s a lot less of this on page 2, so you’re on the right track, but do be mindful of it. The ghosted lines look good. They’re confident, and start at the correct starting point. The planes, on the other hand, are a tiny bit sloppy. It’s important to remember that the unit of work for this section is not a plane, but a line. If it can be accurate in the ghosted lines exercise, it can be accurate elsewhere, too. Also, see if you can plot out some start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of the planes, if you can. As per our philosophy here, it’ll take care of the placement/perspective issue in one step, and then you can focus on executing it confidently in the next.

Starting off the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise looks good, though I do notice a few issues. The first is that they’re at times a little pointy. A pointy ellipse is usually an indication of a lesser pivot (elbow/wrist) that a student is unintentionally reverting to, in search of some more control. Always check back, to make sure that each mark is originating from the the shoulder. You’ll have to do this a bunch in the beginning, but not nearly as much later on. Second, remember that ellipses need to be of a consistent degree/angle in a frame- this isn’t always the case here, so be careful about that, too. Outside of that, however, your ellipses are confident, mostly circular, and rotated around the correct amount of times. The ellipse in planes exercise looks good. Though they don’t align to the planes (it’s not necessary for them to!), your ellipses are still fairly circular. Be careful not to go around them any more than 3 times, however, regardless of how they turn out. The funnels exercise looks solid. The minor axis doesn’t always cut each ellipse into two equal, symmetrical halves, but this seems to be as a result of its construction, rather than the ellipse itself (so, if you can, spend a little longer on that stage, next time.) Be careful, also, not to add any more ellipses if there’s no more minor axis/arc- it defeats the purpose of the exercise.

Immediately, there’s an issue with your box section- the plotted perspective exercise is labeled ‘rough perspective’, and there’s 1 extra page of it, and the rough perspective exercise is labeled ‘plotted perspective’, and there’s only 1 page of it (out of the required 2.) I’ll judge these as-is, but I am going to need to see that extra page. Starting off, it seems like you missed the instruction regarding the composition of the page- it should be split into frames, like in the example homework. The plotted perspective exercise looks nice, save for the sloppy hatching (this should’ve been done using a ruler.) The rough perspective exercise is on the right track, but it has a few issues. First, you haven’t extended your lines back to your VP. Though there’s value in doing an exercise, the true value comes from understanding what you did wrong, and why. That’s what the correction lines tell you. Looking over it myself, it seems alright, though some lines don’t seem to make too much of an effort to converge. It’s generally not too difficult to tell whether a line heads in the correct direction, provided you take the time to ghost towards it after plotting your point. If it doesn’t, feel free to alter it. That’s why we commit our planning stage to points- because points make a, in the whole scheme of things, insignificant mark on our page. Second, there’s a bit of automatic reinforcing present. Remember that each line is drawn once, regardless of how it turns out. Solid attempt at the rotated boxes exercise. The rotation is a little slight, but this is expected. What’s important is to see it through to the end, and, as a bonus, your boxes are big, and snug. The hatching is a little rushed, however. Remember that the purpose of hatching is to clean up a drawing. If it doesn’t do this, and, even worse, if it takes attention away from it as a result of its sloppiness, it’s not really worth the time it takes to add. The organic perspective exercise is a bit of a mixed bag. The boxes themselves are, for the most part, solid (though there is the occasional diverging line.) You’ve also been mindful of their foreshortening, and their increase in size is subtle, and believable. Unfortunately, the automatic reinforcing issue is particularly bad here. I’ve already covered this, however, so I won’t bore you.

Overall, despite some minor hiccups, this submission shows a good understanding of the content, so I’ll be happy to mark it as complete, just as soon as I see that missing rough perspective page.