Hello and welcome! You are correct, in that you don’t need to complete the box challenge a second time. We do request, however, that in addition to the old 250 boxes, you submit an extra 50, that more accurately reflect your current skill level. Before we get to that, however, let’s take a look at your Lesson 1 submission.

Starting with your superimposed lines, these look good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Do try to see every line through to the end, though. I noticed this when skimming your submission earlier, too, you’ll often give up on an opportunity for extra practice, just because something didn’t come out exactly the way it was supposed to. That doesn’t matter. Have your pages be as messy as they can get – they’re not there to be stuck to your fridge, they’re there to be practice. The ghosted lines look confident, as do your planes (though I only notice 1 page of the latter). That said, you seem to have forgotten to plot start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes, and a lot of your lines have a habit of changing their trajectory as they approach their end points. Try to be a little less conscious of them, if you can.

Moving on to the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise looks alright. Looking at some of your spacing issues, and the bumpy nature of most of your ellipses, I’d say that you’d benefit from a little more ghosting. Some more variety, in regards to the degrees, and angles, of your ellipses, would also help. The ellipses in planes (again, only 1 page to judge) are well done. They’ll sometimes deform a little – coming out a little square-ish – in an effort to fill their respective planes, but not so much so that they lose their confidence, which is a good first step. The funnels are a little stiff, but I attribute that, in large part, to their size. Recall that the smaller the mark, the harder it’ll be to engage the shoulder for it. As such, see if you can draw a little bigger, next time.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

The rough perspective exercise could’ve benefitted form a little more patience, I think. For one, you wouldn’t have drawn so many lines that aren’t parallel/perpendicular to the horizon, and feel tempted to fix them in a separate stroke (by the way, correcting an incorrect line is not something we encourage, unless you’re doing it with a red pen). More than that, however, you’d have appropriately put your effort in the part of this exercise that matters most: planning. In fact, I can’t say that I see many start/end points, here, so either you’re sticking to a lot of your first guesses, or not planning at all – both a problem. Nonetheless, your convergences look solid, as does your linework, so no issues there, at least.

The rotated boxes exercise feels quite rushed, too. I get the impression – looking at the diagonal boxes, that haven’t been drawn through, and simply peek out enough to be able to say that they’re there – that you got halfway through, got discouraged, and just rushed to the end. Getting discouraged is something we expect – this is a difficult exercise. However, pushing through, and doing your best, despite that, is more the intended response to that. If you get overwhelmed, by all means, take a break, and come back later.

For the organic perspective exercise, also, it seems that you’ve not plotted start/end points for your lines. I suppose I’ll clear up the misunderstanding, then; every single mark that you make in this course needs start/end points, because every single mark is made using the ghosting method (the first step of which is ‘draw start/end points’). Nonetheless, despite that (and a further misunderstanding: that a box that overlaps another should hide its lines (it shouldn’t!)), the boxes flow well, as per their size, and foreshortening.