Hi Paradosso,

I will be critiquing your homework today. First of all, congrats on completing lesson 1!

As a general comment overall:

You followed the instructions as given across all exercises so unless specifically mentioned otherwise, there are no issues there.

1. Superimposed lines

There is hardly any wobbling in the lines. Your curved lines are pretty good, and there is impressively little fraying at the starting point. While your curves and shorter lines have minimal fraying, the longer lines have a great degree of fraying. This is fixable with warm-ups. Overall, this looks good.

2. Ghosted lines

It's another excellent page. You are very accurate in hitting both the start and end points-- there are only a few instances of overshooting and undershooting in your lines. A few lines show a tiny bit of curving (that may be an odd reverting to drawing from the wrist / elbow). Overall, you seem to be hitting level 3 consistently on this.

3. Ghosted planes

Really good. Generally, your lines connect neatly, and the diagonals and bisectors meet properly in the centre of each plane. You have ghosted the lines well!

4. Tables of ellipses

These are some neatly and snugly packed ellipses! Your ability to draw over the initial ellipse a second time is also excellent. I can see that bigger, more rounder ellipses are sometimes misshapened, but that can be fixed with warm-ups of this exercise.

5. Ellipses in planes

Overall, a good page with snug ellipses. One problem i noticed here is that your ellipses undershoot, so I’d suggest ghosting and having a bit looser control to counteract that. Also, it seems that in some cases, you've repeatedly drawn over the ellipses more than twice or thrice. Try to minimize that to 2-3 times. There are very few instances of your ellipses being deformed, and you are again showing a lot of skill in drawing through them. I'd suggest you take up this exercise frequently in your warm-ups.

6. Funnels

This is a solid page. Your ellipses fit really snuggly in the funnels and are nicely drawn through again. They overall line up pretty well along the minor axis and are smoothly executed.

7. Plotted perspective

The only thing to watch out for is some of your vertical lines being off sometimes (which is not something most people can get right in the first submission, so dont worry). The rest of the construction is solid. My only suggestion (based on the third part of your sheet) would be to hatch the front face of every box in every section of this exercise to make it easier to understand at a glance without making the lines look complicated.

8. Rough perspectives

Overall, this is a good sheet. Some of your lines are a bit more wobbly or curved than in earlier exercises (ghosted lines / ghosted planes) – maybe check whether this is the result of focusing a bit less on ghosting and more on placing corners? Convergences towards the vanishing point can be improved with warm-ups eventually.

9. Rotated boxes

A few things I noted:

• The size of boxes and the work space in general is small and can be made larger to accomodate better rotation of the boxes. When tackling this exercise next time as a part of your warm-ups, try drawing larger boxes.

• The rotation of the boxes along the axes is not at the same degree as that of the boxes between the axes, which makes the overall shape more like a curved structure than a sphere as noted in the sample homework. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/rotatedboxes/notrotating

• Some of your “corner boxes” tend to have slightly bendy lines, following the rotation: watch out about this and concentrate on keeping those lines straight, even if you intuitively want to curve them to make the rotations smoother.

While most of these errors should fix themselves after 250 boxes, I suggest you practice this sheet with a bigger work space for warm-ups in the next lessons for more practice.

10. Organic perspective

Let me start by saying you did an excellent job on creating a sense of depth along the path by making the boxes bigger or smaller depending on where they fall on the path. While there may be a lack in shallow foreshortening in most of the boxes, you have not gone for dramatic foreshortneing, which is good. Your understanding of foreshortening will only improve when you tackle 250 boxes. Make sure to draw the back face of the boxes next time you pick up this exercise for warm-ups to improve your spacial reasoning and rotation of boxes in free space.

I think you definitely have a good enough grasp of the material to continue working on your own in your warm-ups . You have great potential. Good Luck!