Hi, halcyon1. Congrats on finishing Lesson 1.

Just took a look at your work and there's a few thoughts I'd like to share.

Your lines have some noticeable wobbling. This might be happening because you're trying to make sure course correcting the lines during the drawing process. You need to draw your lines quick and with confidence using the motion from your shoulder. Be sure to check this comic strip, because it might help you understand what's happening.

This happens as well on your ghosted lines and, although it improved during your ghosted planes exercise, it's still a bit noticeable.

Your table of ellipses it pretty decent. There's till some wobbling, though and, in some cases, you didn't draw through your ellipses. Remember when drawing ellipses to go over the lines once again during the same motion.

Your ellipses of planes are quite noticeably deformed. This probably happened because you were trying to make sure the ellipse touches all the edges of the planes. Although this last aspect is important, in this stage, your priority is to focus on smooth confident lines.

Your funnels show some improvement on your line work. Remember the your ellipses should be aligned to the minor axis (center line). This line should cut each ellipse in two equal parts.

On your rough perspective exercise the horizontal lines of the boxes should be parallel to the horizon line and the vertical lines of the boxes should be perpendicular to it. Don't forget you should be placing dots help you visualize how the line will be before committing to it.

You also have some issues with the perspective lines. Remember they should always be converging to the vanishing point. Now, in this box you made your issue is more problematic, because according to the way your perspective lines are made, the horizon would be much lower than the one you drew. When your top vertices of the front plane are above the horizon, the top vertices of the back plane need to be above the horizon as well. Again, remember you can place dots to help you imagine the lines before drawing them.

Another problem you had in this exercise (and which I don't fully understand what you were trying to do) is how you drew the extended lines. What you should be doing is extending the perspective lines to the horizon, in order to check how far they are from the vanishing point. Check the homework example to see how they should be made. I've also corrected one of your boxes so you can understand on an example from your work.

The rotated boxes exercise is a very hard one. I think you should read this section once again, because understanding how boxes rotate might help you during the 250 boxes challenge.

Now, your organic perspective exercise is not bad. You managed to create a good flow from the farther away (smaller) to the closer (larger) boxes and took the risk to overlap some of them. The perspective needs some work. Some boxes are good, while others not really. You have one box with a triangular plane, which is something that definitely shouldn't happen. When you drew the overlapping boxes you did the right thing in drawing over the back boxes, except in one box. You can also increase the line weight of the overlapping lines in the front box in order to highlight that they are in front.

Overall you did a good job, but you need to continue to work on your lines. Warm up with some of these exercises. Plan your lines well (placing dots), ghost them and draw with confidence so they end up smooth.

Read very well the 250 boxes challenge page and good luck!

Hi Halcyon1,

I want to congratulate you on completing lesson 1! I noticed that you said you have no prior drawing experience. Nonetheless, you persisted through all of the exercises. Good job!

There are a few things that I have noticed in your work that I would like to point out.

In your Superimposed Lines exercise, I notice that you start off with some fraying lines but you seem to correct this tendency later on. On your Ghosted Lines and Ghosted Planes exercises, what I am seeing the most is a lack of confidence in your lines. On your Ghosted Planes exercise in particular, it seems that you were really trying to get the ellipses to fit into the plane. This, of course, would be ideal. However, in an effort to get the ellipses into the plane you have sacrificed confident lines. I also notice throughout your work that many times when you draw your ellipses, you are not quite going around the ellipses a complete two times.

Taking a look at your Plotted Perspective and Rough Perspective exerises, I think things look pretty good. The biggest issue is, once again, a lack of confidence in your lines.

On your Rotated Boxes exercise, I see that the spaces between your boxes is not as snug as it could be. In addition, the boxes are not rotating very much at all. It seems that some of the boxes on the outer edges are in the same position as the center box, just smaller.

Your Organic Perspective exercise looks pretty good. It seems that you are begging to understand the concept and over time the execution will improve.

What I would recommend is to try the Rotated Boxes exercise again. Focus on confident lines, keeping the boxes snug, and trying to get the boxes to rotate just a it more. After that I think moving on to the 250 box challenge would be great!