Hello, and welcome to drawabox. I’ll be looking over your lesson 1 submission today. Let’s get to it.

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking solid. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. The ghosted lines/planes look quite confident, too. I’ll recommend using start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of the planes, though. Their confidence has suffered as a result of a lack of planning.

Your ellipses are mostly good, especially in the second page. They’re a little bumpy, so I’d definitely recommend spending a little longer ghosting them, but confident. Also, be sure to rotate around them a full 2 times, please; not 1 and a half. Finally, remember that they need to maintain a consistent degree/angle inside of a frame. The ellipses in planes look solid. They’ve maintained their previous smoothness/roundness, and do a good job of fitting inside of these more complicated frames. The funnels look solid. Their ellipses are snug, and properly cut in half by their respective axes. This is excepting that one corner one, but that’s alright.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean; you should’ve used a ruler for the hatching lines, though.

The rough perspective exercise looks good, especially towards the end. Ditching the lineweight/hatching was a good call, as the former was too overt, and the latter confused things, having been applied to a far plane. I’d also recommend not bothering to circle your mistakes, as you have, as it just makes them hard to spot. Regarding the exercise itself, your linework is solid, as are the convergences. To push them even further, spend even longer planning them. Remember: you’re the one who decides when to move from the planning stage, to the execution stage. Ghost a point to the horizon, and continue altering it until you’re satisfied, then commit to it.

The rotated boxes exercise looks really good. It’s big, the boxes are snug, and comfortably rotating. The far planes rotate, as well, and the convergences are mostly fine, though both are things we’ll continue to work on, in the box challenge. The only critique I have is one regarding your lineweight: it’s to overt. Lineweight is meant to suggest, and it does this by being subtle. A single superimposed line is enough, most of the time.

For the organic perspective exercise, it seems like you forgot to split your page into framed compositions. That’s alright, though. I’m wondering if you’ve used the ghosting method for these, though. Looking at them closely, I don’t notice any start/end points. If there was any confusing regarding that, you’re absolutely meant to use the ghosting method here; you’re meant to use it everywhere, actually, and its first step, as you’ll recall, is ‘plot start/end points.’ Other than that, and some divergences, which make sense considering the lack of planning, your boxes look fine. They follow the flow line, increasing in size, but maintaining a consistent, shallow foreshortening as they do. As such, the illusion is conveyed successfully.