Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on completing Lesson 1. I’m TA Benj, and I’ll be taking a look at it for you.

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are well done. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Your ghosted lines are quite confident, also, but for your planes, I notice that you’ve not potted the start/end points of their non-diagonal center lines, as instructed. Please do, moving forward. If you take a look at those lines, you’ll notice that you’ll often stop short of the usual end point. That’s because, on top of drawing the line (which is complicated enough as it is, from an unfamiliar pivot), you’re now also having to think about its length. Where, prior to this, you would decide that beforehand, in an entirely separate step.

Onto the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise shows a good start. Your ellipses are perhaps not as varied as we’d like them (it’s mostly the same 3 ellipses over and over), and you’ll sometimes settle for ‘1 rotation and change’, when we ask for a minimum of 2, but these are minor things. What matters is that your ellipses are smooth, and rounded. The ellipses in planes maintain these qualities, also. There is the occasional deformed ellipse, so I’ll remind you that accuracy is not a concern of ours in this course, but as that happens to be the exception, rather than the rule, I won’t linger too much on it – it seems you understand. The funnels, too, though a little same-y, show a solid grasp of what we’re trying to impart here. Their ellipses are confident, snug (mostly), and properly cut in half by their axes. Do be careful not to go on autopilot, however; that bottom left funnel could’ve used a little more time on the ghosting stage. Not having all of the funnels follow the same orientation might help, to that end.

As for your boxes, the plotted perspective exercise starts things off strong. Your boxes here (and in general) could be bigger, but they’re well done. The rough perspective exercise starts off a little lacking, but looks good by the end of the set. There, your convergences are on-point, and your linework is confident, and clean. I will mention, just to be safe, that the issue before was that you’d draw a line, discover it to be incorrect, and then redraw it. This is not something we encourage. As explained in the ghosted lines section, each line is to be drawn once, and only once, regardless of how it turns out. Resist the urge to ‘fix’ a mistake by adding more ink to it. The rotated boxes exercise looks great. Its boxes are big, snug, and they do a good job of rotating for the most part. Their back sides, and the ones furthest from the center tend to struggle, but this is something we’ve come to expect, so no stress. We’ll go deeper into those as we begin the box challenge. On the subject of boxes, the organic perspective exercise is well done. With the exception of those occasional dirty lines, and the fact that some of your boxes are a little dramatic in their foreshortening, the boxes look good. They’re well constructed, and flow well, as a result of their carefully-monitored increase in size. Nice work, and consider this lesson complete.