Hey; 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 great. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Solid work, especially, on the arcing ones. The ghosted lines/planes are equally well done. They’re quite accurate, but this has not come at the expense of confidence- that’s the goal.

The table of ellipses exercise looks great, save for a few, minor issues. First, be sure that every single ellipse has some strictly defined goals. I notice, for instance, that in page 2, row 1, column 2, you’ve got some ellipses floating inside of a frame, instead of striving to touch all available sides of it. Second, be a little more consistent in regards to the number of times you rotate around your ellipses, and be sure that it’s a minimum of 2, regardless of how they turn out. For someone of your level of confidence, I’d suggest keeping it to 2. Finally, see if you can lift your pen off the page at the end of your rotations, rather than flicking it off. It’ll get rid of those little tails at the end. The ellipses in planes exercise looks fantastic- your ellipses maintain their smoothness/roundness, despite the more complicated frame. Finally, the funnels exercise looks great, too; your ellipses are snug, and properly cut in two equal, symmetrical halves by their respective axes.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean- nicely done.

The rough perspective exercise is mostly good. Your linework is confident, and you’ve been careful to keep 2 sets of lines at infinity. The convergences could use some work, however. I will mention, that, looking at the number of unused points on the page, the issue doesn’t seem to stem from a lack of planning. As such, I’ll tell you of a little trick you can use to determine if your box is correct, if you can’t necessarily count on your ghosting to be able to. That is: to look at its planes. Because of the rules of 1-point perspective, the near plane of your box (the first one your draw), should be identical in shape to its far plane (the one opposite it.) If it’s not, then your box is incorrect. You can see a clear example of this in page 2, frame 2, the bottom-right box. Its front face is a long rectangle, its back face almost a square. Looking at the correction lines, you can probably tell that if you made one shorter, or the other longer, the box would then be correct. So, for boxes that are a little too far from the VP to be able to be ghosted in any reliable way, use this trick.

The rotated boxes exercise looks fairly good. Your linework is, as expected, really confident, and your boxes quite big. They rotate comfortably, but they’re, especially in that last layer, not particularly snug. This doesn’t seem to have affected their actual rotation, however, from looking at their far planes, so it’s not so much an issue with you not understanding how to construct a box- you clearly do.

As a result, your organic perspective exercise looks really good. Your boxes carry a strong illusion of flow, as a result of their increase in size, and constant, shallow foreshortening. The linework in some of the smaller ones is a little scratchy, so be mindful of that, but it’s minimal. Solid work on this exercise, and this lesson, as a whole. Feel free to move on to the box challenge.