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Drawing a summary/recap sounds like a great idea.

Taking notes is fun for me. I find it helpful to practice the examples as well as attempt to draw the illustrations.

If you feel like it would benefit you — do it.

Personally, I don't feel like taking notes helps me understand ANY material better. And I think it has even less sense with drawabox as you get to practice the concepts almost immediately.

But again, that's me. You do you. If your not sure, simply try taking notes and see if it improves your grasp of the material.

Hi there! Saw your submission in the queue, so I figure I'd take a look:

Lines and Planes. Okay, so looking through these, I'm seeing a clear effort to make straight and confident marks. Your superimposed lines are starting from the same point with every effort. Your ghosted lines are pretty good, but the ghosted planes pages have some notable wobbling and errors, with some diagonals missing the corners, and lines that extend beyond the marked corners.

This is normal and part of the process. There can be a number of reasons for this, a thought of doubt, the impulse to correct the mark, etc. What's important to remember is that these moments of hesitancy serve us better before we put the pen to page. Once we make the mark, remember to commit fully to completing that line to the extent that you planned; with enough time and repeated practice, you'll find that these lines will become straighter and cleaner as time goes on.

Ellipses. I think you're making good effort to keep your ellipses solid. There is some fraying, but nothing that isn't expected, and I suspect that you're ghosting your ellipses before you draw them. Incidentally, the idea behind drawing through them several times is to help tighten the shape and to bring a sense of solidity through the thicker line. You're successfully drawing even ellipses, with no noticeable attempts to correct them mid-stroke. The same is true in the funnels exercise. I'm happy to see that these are well done; ellipses are almost as important as boxes, as you'll come to find as you progress through Draw A Box.

Perspective. From what I can see, it looks like you have the right idea of these exercises. Plotted Perspective is particularly clean, and the inner corner is nicely visible for evaluation. The Rough Perspective exercise is also properly done. There are some of the same wobbles that we see in the ghosted lines and planes assignment, but the most important aspect of this assignment is the line analysis portion. Being able to follow your lines to their convergence is going to be a big part of the 250 box challenge, so being able to apply it properly here is a good indicator that you'll be able to properly evaluate your boxes. Which brings us to the last assignment of this section, the organic perspective.

This one is our first foray into free-floating boxes, and it can be challenging. We can see it here in your first page, where many of the boxes have edges that aren't converging into the distance. This would be cause for concern, and possible revision, if it wasn't for the improvement that I'm seeing on the second page. You still have a few that are diverging, but I can see that you're becoming more aware of how your box's edges relate in space, and that's important to keep an eye on.

Rotated Boxes. This one is a hard one, but there's something to be said about making the effort to complete the entire exercise. And from what I can see, nearly all of the boxes appear to be converging properly into the distance. There's a few outliers that have divergent edges, but those are in the outermost corners, which are admittedly very difficult to properly construct.

So after considering all of the material submitted, I think it's safe to mark your work as complete. There's some things to keep an eye on, particularly your line work and the convergence of your free-floating boxes, but these are things that will be tightened up through the box challenge if you continue to apply the principles introduced here in Lesson 1.