I couldn't make out any particular order in which you uploaded them.
It seems you extended the lines correctly towards the vanishing points and you varied the length of the sides. Your lines are straight and confident.
Your skill has improved towards the end. The construction of the last ones is really good. The foreshortening is shallow.
Make sure when you add hatching that you keep it consistently spaced and it seems to me that when you added lineweight to the silhouette you went over the marks several times. Try to use the ghosting method when adding lineweight and make single confident marks.
I haven't counted your boxes but you have 42 pages with six or more boxes and one page with a single one which should suffice. Drawing more than six boxes per page makes it more difficult since you have to make the boxes themselves smaller.
Very well done. I mark the lesson as complete.
Next Steps:
You could add some bigger boxes to your warmups and practice doing the lineweight with the ghosting method.
Practice the 50% rule and move on to lesson 2.
I'd been drawing as a hobby for a solid 10 years at least before I finally had the concept of composition explained to me by a friend.
Unlike the spatial reasoning we delve into here, where it's all about understanding the relationships between things in three dimensions, composition is all about understanding what you're drawing as it exists in two dimensions. It's about the silhouettes that are used to represent objects, without concern for what those objects are. It's all just shapes, how those shapes balance against one another, and how their arrangement encourages the viewer's eye to follow a specific path. When it comes to illustration, composition is extremely important, and coming to understand it fundamentally changed how I approached my own work.
Marcos Mateu-Mestre's Framed Ink is among the best books out there on explaining composition, and how to think through the way in which you lay out your work.
Illustration is, at its core, storytelling, and understanding composition will arm you with the tools you'll need to tell stories that occur across a span of time, within the confines of a single frame.
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