Superimposed lines:
Straight lines look decent, your first page the curved lines and ellipses are pretty wobbly but already much more consistent and looks like better technique, nice.
Ghosted lines:
I think more examples here would have been good, some of these are great hitting both points and not going beyond the intended end point.
Ghosted Planes/Ellipses in Planes:
The planes themselves look pretty good, remember to use the ghosting method for the lines, some of the lines look like you have drawn over multiple times. The ellipses show good improvement from the first to the second page, and appear to have been drawn through twice. Nice work.
Tables of Ellipses & Funnels:
These all look nice and consistent, good job.
Plotted Perspective:
Being picky, your vanishing points stray a little and some of your rear edges connect to a trace line they don't belong to, for example the leftmost box on your second pane. Nothing to change and it won't feature in the 250 box challenge, just remember to be careful when making marks.
Rough Perspective:
Many of these lines don't appear to be ghosted or have been drawn over more than once. Remember to use the ghosting method when making marks and try not to draw over lines a second time. Mistakes are OK and will happen!
Your second side shows a lot of improvement from the first, however you have drawn many of your lines simply directly back towards the vanishing point and not through either the plotted points you made or the line you actually drew. The point of this exercises is not to draw completely accurate boxes, but to trace the boxes you are currently making and compare where you were trying to orient them towards the vanishing point, and where they actually ended up.
https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/20/step9
I would ask that you either plot the lines as described in the task, or draw another side of rough perspective with correctly plotted lines.
Rotated Boxes:
A few of the boxes look parallel to each other, e.g. the second boxes on the first and second rows, but this looks to me to be a good attempt executed well.
Organic Perspective:
These look good. Don't cross out boxes where you made a mistake. It appears that all of these were done with the Y method, one or two closed the angle a little smaller than 90 degrees at least after you drew the ghosted lines.
Note on hatching - this should be performed with the ghosting method, starting at one concrete edge of the face you are drawing the hatching on and aiming to stop at the opposite edge. It looks like some have been drawn this way, but a lot has just been drawing lines on the face or over both edges which should be avoided.
So after plotting the lines back as described in the rough perspective article I would mark this lesson complete and you will be ready to begin the 250 boxes challenge.
Thank you so much for your feedback. I’m going to work on the rough perspective then move on!
Sorry! Seems I forgot to mark this as complete.
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 box challenge.
Nice critique, but I think you forgot to mark their lesson as complete. ShibaWeebu can't get their Lesson 1 Completion Badge unless you select "Mark Lesson as Complete" and give them their next steps
Seems like grumbo forgot to mark your lesson as complete, in case they don't mark it as complete i will in the meantime :)
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 Box challenge
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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