Hello Catab! My name is Piapal and I'll be reviewing your work!

First of all, congratulations on trying Drawabox again and finishing lesson one!

Your honesty is very much appreciated, and at the same time, a good observation to take in mind. Since patience is one of Drawabox keys, it is essential that you don't rush through your assignments so that you can achieve the best of what you can do in each homework.

Let's move onto the critique:

LINES

Congratulations on having no fraying beginnings in the Superimposed Exercise. This is remarkable because it shows that you've been carefully placing your pen in the beginning of the lines and then executing the action. This, in fact, is patience! And you delivered good results so that's great.

However, in this exercise and in the ghosted lines one, I can see that your lines aren't that smooth and straight yet. In the ghosted lines exercise I saw that you focused on accurately drawing a line that could meet both dots. Yet, you delivered "curvy" lines, in order to nail that accuracy. I wouldn't focus on that just yet, rather on keeping your lines straight and confidently done.

It will improve with practice, though. So keep doing it in your warm ups.

In fact, I can see improvement in the Planes exercise. Smoothly, accurately, and straight lines, so congrats on that!

Only a few aren't straight or in their end, they look a bit wobbly. But since you've shown improvement very quickly, I'd say that it will also keep improving with practice (and patience) and also using the ghosting method as much as you need.

ELLIPSES

Many of your ellipses conserve their form and look inside the plane, so congrats on that! My only remark for that exercise is that they overshooted a bit sometimes, and they were drawn over more than two times. If you ghost them enough, you won't need to go over them that much. So remember to be patient and ghost enough in order to deliver smooth, confidently drawn ellipses.

Yet again, you've shown improvement quickly as you moved onto the funnels exercise. Your ellipses look more smooth, not redrwan over more than two times, and they conserve their form, they don't overshoot, and they're well bunched up together. Congratulations. It's a difficult exercise and you've done very well!!

As you experimented with different kinds of forms of ellipses in the Table of Ellipses, it is expected for your ellipses to turn out a bit "sloppier" but I'll remark what I said in the previous exercise. Only a bit of them overshoot or look a bit redrawn, yet the rest look great. I'd only work on ghost them enough times until you feel confident enough to draw your ellipse in the shape you desire and also to avoid to redraw them more than two times. (Drawabox asks for you to go over them two times only)

BOXES

Your boxes look neat and smooth. You also nailed the perspective in the Rough Perspective exercise and you also managed to maintain the form of each box. Your exercise looks great. My only remark here is that a few lines wobble a bit or look just a bit curvy but that will improve with practice and patience as you ghost over your lines as much as you need.

But I must admit that this critique I said it is because I have a perfectionist eye- It seems that you understand how Vanishing Points and Perspective works, and you are also able to portray it in these exercises.

These critiques I'm giving you are only for you to know in what you have to keep working on.

Rotated Box Exercise: It looks very neat. Your lines have improved because they look straighter and confidently done.

My only remark here, is that it seems that you struggled to keep the perspective of your boxes right as they turn in space.

(Hence why you feel that the exercise turned out stiff) which is normal because it's one of your first attempts at this exercise. In order for you to know what I'm talking about, I'll talk to you about the first box to the right of the centered one. If you take a ruler and extend the four set of lines that are meeting in a VP to the right, you'll see that the lines on the foreground will likely meet in a point, but the ones behind will diverge from them and never meet the same VP they are supposed to meet at. This happened in many of your boxes. If I were you, I'd take a ruler and extend lines from your boxes like in the Rough Perspective exercise, for you to see what I'm talking about and so that you can keep track of your mistakes and know where to focus next. (this is what I mean when I say that your lines are diverging: https://imgur.com/KSHwTwo ) However, you've delivered very good results!! Congratulations!!

The form of your boxes looks conserved though, which is remarkable. All in all, a very good submission.

Organic Perspective: You drew different kinds of boxes (in shape and form) which is great, and in my opinion, you're nailing that perspective, even though you're a beginner in this course, which is very remarkable. When your boxes become smaller, they turn out a bit wobblier. Remember to put just as much effort to those tiny boxes, to the big ones. I know it is difficult because they're smaller, but your skills have shown that you could achieve straighter lines for those tiny boxes. So it's a matter of patience.

In conclusion: you have delivered a very good homework submission. I can see that you've understood the fundamentals teached in this lesson. You are trying to keep your lines smooth and straight, and the more you practiced, the better they became. I can see that you're engaging your shoulder, that you're ghosting your lines, too. You even nailed the perspective of your boxes many times, which means that you're thinking while you're ghosting. I won't ask for revisions, since I believe that the points in which you struggled are facts to keep in mind and correct while you re-do these exercises as your warm-ups. In fact, re-do the ones (in your warm-ups) that turned out to be the most difficult to you. (I'd recommend you to do the Rotated box one, and to keep in mind what I've told you.)

Last thing: after reviewing your whole work, I believe that you've been very patient because you delivered very good results compared to other people I have reviewed. So, if you still think that you haven't been patient enough, I must admit that you are on a very good track. Keep being patient, and if you feel that you could be more patient, then do so in order to deliver results to the best of your current ability. (Which is already great!)

In my opinion, you're totally capable of moving onto the 250 Box Challenge. I'm happy to mark this lesson as complete. Congrats!!