Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on having completed Lesson 1. Let’s see how you did, shall we?

Starting off, your superimposed lines look good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory, but I do suspect that you’re going a little slower than you need to, in pursuit of accuracy. Consider trying a higher speed – you might find that you have the same degree of accuracy, but a greater degree of confidence, in doing so. Your ghosted lines look quite confident, and I’m happy to see so many of them; though I’d have liked to see a few longer ones, too. The planes are well done, too, and I’m pleased to see that you’ve not forgotten to plot start/end points for them (most students do!) Similarly, it’s good to see that you’re not overly conscious of those points; instead, fully comfortable missing them, in pursuit of a straight line.

Moving on to the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise is nicely done. Your ellipses here are smooth, mostly rounded, and properly drawn through. I say mostly because there’s the occasional pointy ellipse (the thinner ones, especially), that I suspect employed a lesser pivot for that particular part of it. Do please check whether this is the case. The ellipses in planes look fantastic! Despite these more complicated frames, your ellipses do a good job of maintaining their prior smoothness/roundness – often even improving on it. The funnels, too, are well done (though I’d have liked to see a few more!) Some of their smaller ellipses struggle, as expected, but this is nothing to stress about – as you know, the smaller a line is, the harder it is to engage one’s shoulder for it. It’ll get easier in time.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean. There’s not as many boxes as we’d like here, either, but the point has come across.

The rough perspective exercise shows some good improvement throughout, though it still has a ways to go. I notice, from the unused points on the page, that you’re taking your time with each point – that said, you’re either not doing this long enough, or you’re not doing it correctly. The first is an easy fix. The second, requires a review of your method. What I recommend students do is, plot a point in the rough position that they think it should be, then ghost a line from the initial point, to it, and then beyond it in that same direction, to the horizon, to observe how off they are. Then, plot another based on that observation – repeating, until they’re satisfied.

The rotated boxes exercise is nicely done. It’s big (huge positive!), its boxes are snug, and they rotate nicely. The latter is less the case in the back, but that’s entirely normal, and something that we’ll address in the upcoming box challenge.

Speaking of boxes, the organic perspective exercise is well done. Your boxes are well constructed, and they flow quite well, too, as a result of their overlaps, as well as size, and foreshortening. Keep up the good work