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Nice work Shivali! Your subjective and objective line use is also very nice. I am glad to see the exercises are carrying over into your other drawings.
Getting the perspective of the book is really tricky. We will learn some more perspective tricks later in the semester, but as you already figured out, the key is measuring and translating the proportions correctly to the page. Even the text you put on the book and other items can be measured to create an illusion of 3 dimensionalities on the 2-dimensional plane!
The thumbnail sketch is also a great tool to have in your back pocket as you plan out your other drawings this semester, or in the future. You can always set up a grid in your sketchbook and plan out different compositions until you land on one that feels right! Feel free to also rearrange your still life in conjunction with utilizing the viewfinder. Sometimes you have to play with what you are looking at until you find something that speaks to you!