Hey there! Welcome to Lesson 1 of Drawabox. I'm sluggy and I'll be checking your work today.

Lines

These are looking very nice. Your marks are smooth, confident and fairly accurate, which is great. I'm not seeing very much wobble at all, even in your curved superimposed lines, so nice work there! The biggest issue I'm noticing is that you have a lot of fraying at the starting point of your superimposed lines. While I do think your speed is allowing you to have smooth marks, I recommend slowing down just enough to give some thought to where you're placing your pen down.

Other than that though, your lines are looking good and very accurate. You're not consistently over- or undershooting your end points, which has your ghosted planes looking very solid. Nice work there.

Ellipses

Lovely work on these. You show a good deal of control over where each ellipses is placed and there is very little evidence of a wobble. You've also gotten pretty far in tightening them up, which is great to see! These marks are looking good and you're very quickly moving in the right direction.

As for your funnels, you want keep a close eye on the minor axis, the line you lay down initially. Your ellipses should be aligned with and bisected by this axis - you want to consider it like the 'spine' of the funnel. At the moment, while you're overall doing well with this, a good few are falling off the line, becoming more aligned with each other than the minor axis. This will be important for the illusion of 3D in later lessons, especially when it comes to organic forms.

Rough Perspective

Really beautiful work here! You're keeping your boxes aligned with the horizon and your depth lines are fairly accurate, which keeps your boxes solidly in one point perspective. Keeping them parallel and perpendicular to the horizon also eliminates unnecessary guesswork as you're working through the exercise, so very nice work there.

One thing I do want to point out is that I'm seeing a very slight wobble here. Your ghosted lines and planes were very neat and straight, but you appear to be getting a little nervous when it comes to constructing boxes. Try to think of each box as a collection of ghosted lines: This will allow you to focus on your mark-making, instead of the end goal of a 'box'. If you're following the rules of perspective, the rest will fall into place and at the end, you will have successfully created the illusion of a box.

Rotated Boxes

Awesome attempt at this challenge. This work is super clean and your line work looks great! While you don't achieve the full 180 degree rotation, your boxes are rotating nicely, you're keeping your gaps consistent and your hatchmarks are thoughtful and neat. Also, your line weight is well-applied, which is really great to see. Nice work here. It appears to me that you're coming in with a good amount of experience with both 3D and mark-making.

Should you attempt this challenge again, you can achieve a fuller rotation by focusing on the vanishing point of each box. Unlike the rough perspective exercise where all boxes converge back towards a single point, each box in the rotated boxes exercise has a new VP, but it is along the same axis. If you move this VP past the previous box's VP by a wide enough margin, and pay attention to your convergences, the box will rotate rather than simply moving back in space.

Organic Perspective

While you have a few convergence errors here and there, that's nothing the 250 box challenge won't help with! The wobble is back, but like I've noted before, you can continue to iron it out with the ghosting technique. Nice work on this portion of the homework!