Thanks for joining, we’re happy to have you here! Let’s take a look at your Lesson 1, shall we?

Starting off, your superimposed lines look great. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. The arcing lines are a little wobbly, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, but this is likely due to their size, more than anything else. As you know, the smaller a mark, the harder it is to engage the shoulder for it, so see if you can draw these a little bigger, next time. Your ghosted lines look confident, save for a little bit at their starts. Likely, you’re spending too long lining up your pen to the correct starting point, and losing that built-up rhythm, as a result. The planes look equally good, but this time, their ends suffer. What’s probably happening here is that you’re slowing down in an effort to not stop short of the end point, or overshoot, and that’s causing your line to wobble, or change trajectory. That’s prioritizing accuracy over confidence, however, so it’s not recommended. (If anything, you should be doing the opposite!) Be mindful of this as you move on.

Moving on to the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise looks mostly good. You’ve got a lot of ellipses here, and a nice variety in their angles, but not so much in their degrees. Try to have a full range of them, if you please. Beyond that, see if you can be less stiff when executing your marks. Right now, you’re very conscious of having to rotate around them 2 full times, and then flick your pen off, that those marks are very apparent on the page. Instead, we want to be more loose; draw with confidence, and then lift the pen off, such that there’s no clear indication of where the mark starts or ends, because it’s all one mark. To put it more simply, don’t stress so much about how accurate you’re being! This is perhaps more clear when one looks at your ellipses in planes. Notice how your ellipses deform here, in an effort to snuggly fit inside of their planes? That should be secondary to them being smooth and rounded, however, so keep that in mind. The funnels look a little better in this respect, but would benefit from another second or two on the ghosting stage, as they have some spacing issues. Strong start, however!

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean. The rough perspective exercise shows great improvement throughout the set. By its end, the convergences are actually fairly strong, so let’s talk about your linework, instead. Though it’s mostly alright in general, there’s instances of wobbly lines, and reinforced lined. Regarding the former, though it’s tempting to look at the big picture, and feel overwhelmed, remember that what you’re doing here is really no different from what you do in the ghosted lines exercise. You draw lines one at a time, from point A to point B. There’s no reason they should be less confident here than they were there. As for the reinforcing issues, I’ll simply remind you that each line is to be draw once, and only once, regardless of how it turns out. Adding more ink to a mistake doesn’t fix it, anyway; it just makes it stand out that much more. Great work with the rotated boxes exercise! I’m pleased to see that each quadrant of it is different; rather than settling for what you know, you’ve been happy to experiment with each one, which is always great to see. Said experimentation has paid off, too, as there’s a lot of improvement in each quadrant. Save for some flat far planes and incorrect depth lines – both of which we get into in the box challenge, anyway – this exercise is well done. Speaking of well done, the organic perspective exercise looks great, too. Your boxes are mostly well constructed, and flow well as a result of their foreshortening, and size. Good work, and consider this lesson complete.