Hello, and welcome to drawabox! Before I look at your submission, let me first address something you said. Though it’s perfectly fine, albeit not ideal, for a student to have completed both lesson 1 and the box challenge before getting any sort of critique, that’s where that stops. I don’t advise making any progress on your lesson 2 submission until you’ve had both looked at. Perhaps you could spend this time drawing for fun, as per the instructions in lesson 0. With that out of the way, let’s take this one exercise at a time.

Your superimposed lines look a lot better on page 2, but they’ve their issues there, too. The straight ones are mostly smooth, save for at the end (remember that them being fully smooth, and straight, is more important than them stopping at the correct point), properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. The arcing ones are, unfortunately, wobbly. Here, too, smoothness is more important than whether your line sticks to its guideline or not. These issues are somewhat present in your ghosted lines, too, but are mostly improved by the time you reach the planes exercise- this is good. I’m also pleased to see that the overshooting issue that pops up there, is fixed by the end of the submission. Continue being mindful of your own work, and improving accordingly. One thing I’ll bring up in regards to your planes is that you haven’t plotted any start/end points for their non-diagonal center lines. It’s, as per the instructions in the ghosted lines section, important to do this for all of your lines.

The table of ellipses exercise looks a little loose. Remember that your goal is to ghost each ellipse until confident in the built-up motion, then commit to it. Also, when you do commit, remember that the ellipse’s accuracy is now set in stone, and all you have any control over anymore is its confidence; don’t let your brain get involved. Seeing how far apart the two rotations are, I’d say that’s what ended up happening here. Trust the built-up motion. Or, if you’ve not faith in it, continue ghosting until you do. The ellipses in planes exercise shows a lot of improvement in this respect. There’s still the occasional error, but your ellipses here are much tighter, and do a good job of maintaining their smoothness/roundness, despite the added difficulty of having to touch all 4 sides of the plane. The funnels exercise is a bit of a mixed bag. You’ve definitely struggled with some of the smaller ellipses, though this isn’t unexpected. I’ll recommend sticking to larger ones until you’re more comfortable with the shoulder pivot. Their alignment isn’t always on-point, either. Be sure to properly ghost each one, not forgetting to rotate the page as necessary. Finally, remember that you’re meant to be going around them a minimum of 2 times, and no more than 3. 1 and a half isn’t quite enough, I’m afraid.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean- nicely done. The rough perspective exercise is well done, too. I notice that your linework here is a little off. I’d like you to confirm that you’re not drawing too fast. Do this by testing out a bunch of different drawing speeds. The one for you is the one that gives you the most accurate, but still confident lines. This’ll change over time, as you become more and more comfortable with your shoulder, so I recommend doing this at intervals, rather than just once. Anyway, save for that, the exercise looks good. Your linework is confident, you’ve been careful to keep 2 sets of lines at infinity, and have the remaining set converge. The convergences are quite good, too. The rotated boxes exercise is well done. It’s big (huge positive!), the gaps between your boxes are narrow, and they show a full range of rotation. Their back sides are, in comparison, a little flat, and not quite as snug, but that’s to be expected. You’ll get better at this exercise as you progress through the box challenge- not to worry. Finally, the organic perspective exercise is well done. There’s a little bit of an issue with some of the inner angles of your boxes (they’re less than 90 degrees; that’s what’s making your boxes look a little skewed), but that’s not something you’re expected to have an understanding of just yet. What’s important is that the boxes feel like they belong in a scene together, which they do, thanks to the consistent increase in size, and foreshortening.

There’s a couple of things I hope you’ll take note of, but this is, overall, a strong submission. Since you’ve already completed the challenge, and won’t be able to practice these concepts during it, I’ll suggest doing so during your warmups. Good luck.