Welcome to drawabox, and a big congrats on making it past the hurdle that is Lesson 1. I’m TA Benj, and I’ll be looking over this for you.

Starting off, your superimposed lines are well done. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. I’d have liked to see a few more arcing lines, here, but that’s alright. Your ghosted lines look quite confident, too, as do your planes, but I’d make their start/end points a little smaller. Recall that the idea is for a perfect line to swallow them both. By the way, if your line happens to stop short of its end point, try to be comfortable with that. Don’t do that thing where you give it one last push, trajectory be damned, so long as it hits its end point. That’s having your priorities backwards.

Moving on to the ellipse section, the ellipses in the table of ellipses exercise are well done, if a little same-y (with regards to their degrees/angles). I notice, also, that they’ll sometimes come out a little pointy, so make sure that you’re not at any point switching to a lesser pivot for them. Students have a habit of switching to their elbow/wrist for some of the sharper turns, which is obviously not something we encourage. The ellipses in planes do a good job of maintaining that same level of smoothness/roundness, despite their more complicated frames. The funnels look good, if a little small. Recall that (though you might feel that doing so gives you more control), the smaller you draw, the less control you have, as it becomes harder and harder to properly engage your shoulder. So, if you feel like an exercise is a little complicated, that’s when you should draw big!

As for the box section, the plotted perspective exercise is well done.

The rough perspective exercise starts off strong, and shows some great improvement throughout the set. By the end, your convergences are on-point, and your linework is confident. I do, however, notice some instances of automatic reinforcing. I’ll quickly remind you that each line is to be drawn once, and only once, regardless of how it turns out. Resist the urge to ‘correct’ a line by going over it a second time.

Solid attempt at the rotated boxes exercise. It’s a little small (refer to what I said in the funnels section!), but its boxes are snug, and they do a solid job of rotating. This is less the case in the back (their planes are a little flat, there), but that’s entirely expected, and something that we’ll address in the box challenge, anyway, so no need to stress.

Finally, the organic perspective exercise is well done. I’m very pleased to see such a sheer number of boxes, and that they’ve all been drawn so well is great, too. On top of being well-constructed, they do a good job of flowing through the page, too, as a result of their size, and foreshortening. Great work on this, and consider the lesson as a whole marked as complete.