Hi, and welcome to drawabox. I’ll be taking a look at your lesson 1 submission today. Let’s get to it.

Starting off, your superimposed lines look… alright. I really wish you hadn’t made things so hard for yourself, by going for the longest ones possible, and instead started small, and built up. Also, that you’d, as per the text instructions, and the example in the example homework, included some arcing lines, too. It’s good to be ambitious, but make sure that what you’re doing isn’t hurting you. Right now in the beginning, it’s wisest to stick to what’s recommended, before going off on your own. Regardless, the lines are smooth, and properly lined up at the start, but their trajectories aren’t too consistent, unfortunately. The ghosted lines have a similar issue, them all being the same length, but they’re mostly fine otherwise. One thing I notice is that they’ll often start off wobbly, before stabilizing. Be careful that you’re not spending so long lining up your pen that you lose the rhythm you’ve built up as a result of the ghosting motion. The planes are, unfortunately, bordering on wobbly. This goes double for their non-diagonal center lines, that don’t have any start/end points (they should!) Remember that of the two, it’s confidence, not accuracy, that we should prioritize. A confident, but inaccurate line we can work with. A wobbly one is no good, regardless of how accurate it may be.

The table of ellipses exercise looks good. Though there’s exceptions (be sure to take your time, ghosting each and every ellipse!), the ellipses are smooth, and rounded. You’ve drawn through them, too, though not always the correct number of times; sometimes you’ll be satisfied with less than 2 rotations, which we don’t recommend. Be careful, also, not to flick your pen at the end of them, as it leaves a noticeable mark on your page. See if you can lift it off, instead, maintaining the ghosting motion until it’s fully off. The ellipses in planes exercise looks good. Your ellipses are smooth, and rounded, and do a good job of fitting within these more complicated frames. Sometimes they’ll start off a little stiff, or be a little too loose, however. In both cases, the solution is to ghost more. As for the funnels: they look good. Your ellipses maintain their previous smoothness/roundness, this time being snug, and properly cut into two equal, symmetrical halves by their axes. The only thing I’d like to mention is that aligning them to the minor axis is the entire point of the exercise; so, if there’s no axis, you should either extend the existing one, or stop your ellipses there- don’t just add ones aligned to nothing.

The plotted perspective exercise looks good, if a little sloppy. It’s an exercise done with a ruler, so there’s no excuse for lines that overshoot.

The rough perspective exercise seems quite rushed, too. The points, the lines, the convergences, the corrections; there’s issues everywhere. I’ll take the time to address them one by one, so please take you time reading everything, so that your next attempt may benefit from it. First, the points should be points, rather than circles. A circle makes ghosting difficult, by virtue of it being bigger, i.e. less precise, than a point. The linework has a few issues. First, it’s wobbly. There’s no reason why it should be, however. What you’re doing here is no different from what you were doing in your ghosted lines/planes exercises. Since the process of drawing a line hasn’t changed, there’s no reason for these lines to not be at least that good. Don’t get overwhelmed by the task; it’s, ultimately, just a bunch of lines. Second, it’s loose. A lot of these lines overshoot. Others, especially the back ones, don’t seem to make too much of an effort to connect in such a way that forms a box. It’s important to take your time with these; plotting points, testing them, and committing to them, is the whole idea behind the exercise. This brings us to the 3rd issue: the convergences. Starting with the set of lines that’s meant to head to the VP: it doesn’t always. It’s important, here, to plot a point, and check whether it’s correct, rather than assuming that it is. Do this by ghosting it all the way to the horizon line, to see where it intersects it. Anywhere but the exact location of the VP means that your point is incorrect, and, as such, should be adjusted. Also, be careful to not have these adjustments run counter to your other requirement: to keep the back lines so that they’re parallel/perpendicular to the horizon. Finally, spend a little longer on the correction lines. For them to be able to tell you anything, they need to actually go through the points. And once you’ve got a page of corrected lines, look at them; consider your mistakes, and how you could make them better.

Save for the aforementioned issues in linework, the rotated boxes exercise looks good, if a little tiny. Try to fill more of the page next time, if you can. As for the boxes themselves, they do a good job of rotating, but their gaps aren’t exactly narrow. Again, it’s important for more thought to go into your linework. It’s more or less fine here, because you’re not exactly expected to know what to do, but isn’t that even more of a reason to not rush things?

For the organic perspective exercise, it doesn’t seem like you used the ghosting method. That is to say, rather than plot start/end points, ghost between them, and execute, it seems like you just drew some arbitrary lines. This is incorrect. Also, though they follow the flow line, not much thought has been put into their size (makes sense, considering the lack of planning), and their foreshortening, too, is incorrect.

There’s a lot of good here, but quite a few missteps, too. As such, I’m going to need to request a few revisions.