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Welcome and congratulations on finishing the first lesson of Drawabox! I'm Mada and I'll be taking a look at your submission.

Overall you did a decent job here, but I do have a bit to mention so let's break them down one by one. I'll write the most important things in bold. Next time, try to take a picture of each page one by one so we can easily analyze them in greater details!

Lines

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. Ghosted lines look correctly ghosted and confident too, and there are barely any arching. You've also done the ghosted planes with a great accuracy, but I do see a tendency to arch your lines here. It's nothing much, but do make sure that you ghost while pivoting from your shoulder, try to intentionally arc your lines to the opposite direction to counteract the natural curve. This constant correction you make will eventually become natural as you get more practice (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ghostedlines/arc)

Ellipses

Now with your ellipses, I also still see some wobbling there, especially with the bigger planes, and it's still apparent in your funnels. This is relatively common and can result from hesitation or a limitation on your pivot (like using your wrist instead). A confident execution leads to an evenly shaped ellipse, whereas hesitation leads to wobbling and uneven shapes just as it does for our lines. Be more confident, and make sure you're allowing yourself to draw from your shoulder (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ellipsesinplanes/deformed).

Boxes

You've shown a good understanding of how to make 2 point perspective in the plotted perspective. I did see some skewed back vertical lines here and there, which is usually caused by an accumulation of human error as you plot more and more lines. I assume that's the case and you understand that every vertical line is straight in 2 point perspective. Even if the points are not aligned correctly, try to find a middle ground and draw it as vertical as you can.

You've applied the ghosting method and lines extension correctly for the rough perspective. You also drew the front/back faces rectangular, which is correct for 1 point perspective. However, I can't really say the same with your lines confidence from here onwards as it suffers a downgrade from your lines exercise. It's understandable and expected to be overwhelmed by the amount of information about boxes presented at this point, sometimes causing students to neglect their line confidence that they can clearly demonstrate when they're just doing lines. Remember that boxes are just a bunch of lines.: plan your boxes, put down the dots, and ghost the lines one by one. When you're ghosting, only that line matters.

As the notoriously most difficult exercise in this lesson, you've done a great job at doing the rotated boxes. You've rotated them pretty well (while making sure to move the converging lines) and used neighboring elements to deduce the next orientation of boxes, which is the whole purpose of this exercise. I see you're having trouble with the corner boxes here, which is expected and will get easier when you learn how to rotate boxes in the box challenge. The line confidence is still the same as your rough perspective though and it's our main problem here.

Finally, organic perspective looks great as well. They look like they belong in the same page and the lines converge as they move farther away from the viewer. There are a few hiccups here and there where there are divergences that results in skewed boxes, but overall they're minor and they look pretty solid. Again, everything is fine except for your line confidence.

This will get more relevant as you get to the box challenge, but any hatching from this point on should also be done with the ghosting method. It will make your stuff cleaner and more practice is always good! Try to cover the whole area of the box with consistent spacing.

ne last thing I want to mention is do not correct your lines by going over it with more lines. This will make your mistake stands out even more with how bold it is, and generally is against the concept of executing planned confident lines throughout this course. Unless it's waaaaay off the trajectory, accept the mistake and trust your muscle memory that it will get better with time and practice.

While I think you've grasped the general concepts, I can't really say that you've demonstrated good line confidence with your boxes. Since you will be drawing a lots of boxes after this, it'd be a problem if this habit persists. As such, I'd like you to do two additional exercises of organic perspective, with an emphasis on your line confidence. You've already shown that you can ghost them correctly in your lines exercise, so you just have to do so again with your boxes. Remember, do not be overwhelmed that they're boxes. Plan the lines and ghost them one by one; prioritizing confidence over accuracy. Once you can demonstrate that, you'll most likely be able to move on to the box challenge!

Hi, congratulations for finishing lesson 1, you did great. I will try to give some feedback on your work.

• Lines: Your lines look awesome, they look pretty striaght, with only a few wobbling slightly. Remember to prioritize straight lines over accurate lines and commit with your lines through all the process.

• Ellipses: They are smooth and confident ellipses, well done

• Boxes: Your rotated boxes look pretty god they’re correctly rotating, but a few boxes at the bottom of the set could rotate more. Feel free to rotate your page to see that your edges or your dots are actually making the rotation.

Your organic perspective also looks great, just try to avoid dramatic foreshortening, Aim for a more gradual effect, as seen in most of your boxes.

Hi, I'll try to evaluate you. Good job on finishing the lesson!

Your exercises look correct. Your lines are confident and accurate. Well done! I have just one note here:

Rotated boxes - Needs a bit more rotation at the furthermost boxes. Let's look at the boxes to the left of the center for example. It looks like those two boxes share a Vanishing Point because their front edges align. The last box should be rotated a bit more (or the previous one, a bit less). The whole thing should look like a ball, but it doesn't because of that.

Remember those points when revisiting those exercises in your warmups.

Best of luck!