Hello I’ll be handling the critique for your lesson 1 homework.

Lines

-The superimposed lines are off to a great start as you have always started from a clearly defined point and kept all of the wavering on one side only. I do catch a very light wobbliness so make sure you are engaging your whole arm with a locked wrist. There is the expected fraying at the ends but this will disappear with practice.

-Moving on to the ghosted lines, these are also drawn with a good deal of confidence and I can see that you are using the ghosting method to good effect, as your lines are smooth while maintaining good accuracy. It is great to see that your lines follow their trajectory even if they are going to miss the ending dot.

-The ghosted planes are no different from the ghosted lines and overall you have kept up the good work, just remember to draw the initial end ending dots for all your lines, as it is very important to apply the ghosting method correctly.

Ellipses

-Starting with the tables of ellipses, these are looking very tidy instead of rushed and I can see that you have kept in mind the degree, angle, spacing and alignment of the ellipses, they are also looking very symmetrical and well rounded. Overall this is a great start, so keep up the good work.

-The ellipses in planes are tuning out nicely, and it is great to see that you are not overly concerned with having the ellipses touch the four sides of the plane and are instead aiming to draw symmetrical ellipses, which you should always do.

-The funnels are well done too, your ellipses have not stiffened and they are still very confidently drawn, you are also doing a good job when it comes to aligning the ellipses and having them cut into equal halves.

Boxes

-Starting with the rough perspective, your linework is looking confident which has helped your boxes look more solid and believable, the main thing here is that you are repeating your lines, remember, if you make a mistake leave it like that and do not try to correct it by drawing on top of it as it only makes it stand out more. Lastly you are doing a great job aligning the sides of the boxes to the horizon line and your estimations to the vanishing point are good and they will get better with practice.

-Your rotated boxes are turning out well, as you have kept the gaps between boxes narrow and the rotation is clearly there, one thing that can help you on your future attempts at this exercise is to use more of the space available in your page, this way you will have an easier time ghosting and drawing your lines, so they end up more confident while maintaining good accuracy.

-Finishing with the organic perspective, you are doing an excellent job with the linework and you are already making some really good attempts at the perspective of the boxes, thus your boxes feel very solid and share the same 3D space. I can still see that you are correcting some of your lines so try to get rid of this habit, and lastly, remember that you can add lineweight to the parts of outer lines that overlap with other boxes to clarify which ones are on top and which behind, so give it a try next attempts you have at the exercise.

That is it for now, overall you did a great job on this lesson so I’ll go ahead and mark it as complete, now move on to the box challenge.