6:43 AM, Thursday August 11th 2022
No worries at all! Let’s see here~
Your superimposed lines look mostly good. They’re smooth, and properly lined up at the start, but their trajectory is a little wild sometimes. This isn’t an issue, and I expect it’ll improve now that you’ve learned of the ghosting method, too, but it’s something to keep an eye on. Same with the confidence of your arcing lines. Remember that it’s more important for them to be smooth, than stick to the guideline. The ghosted lines/planes look good, save for some hesitation at the end. Try to be a little less conscious of the end point, if you can. It’s perfectly fine for your line to stop short of it, overshoot it, or entirely miss it. It’s not, however, fine for it to wobble, or change trajectory partway.
The table of ellipses exercise is a little mixed. Your ellipse are all of a fairly similar degree/angle, but they look confident enough. I do think you could stand to push that aspect of them a tiny bit more (it seems like there’s a part of you that’s still stressing a little about their accuracy, when there should be no such thing), but even like this, they’re quite satisfactory. That said, you should be rotating around them a full 2 times – not 1 and change. If there was a hint of it in the previous exercise, in the ellipses in planes, it’s clear that you’re a little too focused on accuracy – the ellipses wobble and deform, in an effort to touch all sides of the plane, and themselves. This is not necessary, however. It’s perfectly fine for them to stop short of the plane, or overshoot it, provided that they’re smooth, and rounded - that’s what’s most important. The funnels look a little stiff, but you’ve got the right idea with them, judging from how snug, and properly cut in half your ellipses are.
You’ll sometimes hatch a far plane, but the plotted perspective exercise is well done.
By the end of the rough perspective exercise, your convergences look quite solid. The only thing to look out for, then, is the back lines. Remember that they’re meant to be parallel/perpendicular to the horizon. So don’t simply ghost a line to the vanishing point, place a point in that line, and call it a day. See to it that the point you’ve placed, when connected to its neighbors, also creates lines that are parallel/perpendicular to the horizon. If it doesn’t, even if your line is accurate in its convergences, it’ll be wrong.
Good attempt at the rotated boxes exercise. It’s big (huge positive!), and its boxes are snug. So much so, in fact, that you entirely ignore that they should be rotating. Certainly, if they were, there’d be a lot more empty spaces in your drawing, but much like with the rough perspective exercise, the idea isn’t to ignore one instruction so as to stick by another, it’s to find a way to make both work. Nonetheless, this is about where we expect a beginning student to be, and it’s only after you’ve completed the box challenge that you can come back to this, expecting improvement.
The organic perspective exercise looks mostly good. You’ve got some diverging lines here, which make your boxes bigger than you intended them at times, thus making it so that the increase in size from one end to another isn’t quite as smooth as we’d like it, but I can tell that you’re aiming for it, which is all that matters. Here, too, the 250 box challenge will make all the difference.
Next Steps:
As I’m marking this lesson as complete, you may feel free to move on to it!