Hi, and welcome to drawabox. Congrats on completing lesson 1. I’ll be looking through it, and giving you some feedback, before I move you on to the box challenge. Let’s start!

To begin with, your superimposed lines look great. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. I do wish you’d tried a few more arcing lines, but what’s here is good. The ghosted lines/planes look solid. Your linework is smooth, and straight, all the way through.

Moving on to the ellipse section, your ellipses are mostly good – in that they’re smooth, and rounded – if at times drawn through a little too much. Try not to go above 3 rotations, and, if you can, stick to 2. In regards to the degrees, too, try to have most of them be large. Thinner ellipses are a little easier on the shoulder, so if you feel like you’ve got them, it’s best to practice some of the more challenging ones. The ellipses in planes look solid. They’ll occasionally go over their bounds, but this is perfectly fine. You’re, in fact, encouraged to sacrifice some of their accuracy, if it’s in pursuit of smoothness, and roundness. The funnels look solid as well. The ellipses are snug against both each other, and the frame, and properly cut in half by their respective axes.

The plotter perspective exercise looks clean – nicely done.

The rough perspective exercise starts off strong, and improves considerably throughout the set. It’s a little hard to tell, because of the quality of the images, but it seems like you’re going with a lot of your first guesses, here, in regards to the convergences. To push them even further, consider spending a little longer on them, adjusting them as necessary – it’s perfectly fine to!

The rotated boxes exercise looks good. The boxes struggle to rotate, at times, but you’ve kept them snug, and properly drawn through them all. My only advice would be to spend a little longer considering some of the convergences – particularly their far planes, which have a habit of being a little flat, and their depth lines, which will occasionally diverge – but this is not something students are expected to have a solid grasp of at this point in time, so feel free to come back to it as you progress through the box challenge.

Finally, the organic perspective exercise looks solid. In regards to what you said in the text description of your post, that’s fine, and what we’re ultimately building up to, but be careful not to use this as an excuse to not plan. Instead, use it as a helpful hint, in regards to the general direction of your lines. Anyway, your boxes properly follow the flow line, increasing in size, but maintaining a consistent (if at times bordering on dramatic) foreshortening. As such, they convey the illusion of flow well.