Hey there Daniel, congratulations on your submission of Lesson 1! My name is Mickey and I'll be providing your critique this round. Let's get to it!

• Your superimposed lines exercise was completed to satisfaction, with each line clearly drawn from the shoulder. Great job including a varied array of line lengths and curves.

• Your ghosted lines exercise has also been done well, each mark begins correctly on one of the dots and follows through confidently. Accuracy is just a matter of mileage, so as you continue with this exercise in your warmups you'll find you can hit the mark more precisely, and more often, over time.

• Good job on your ghosted planes and ellipses in planes, it's clear that each stroke has been executed with confidence and care, and the ellipses have been drawn through and fit within the bounds of the plane. I'd like to note, though, that your planes are missing one of their cross lines (the lines that divide the plane into four rectangular sections), so you're missing out on a pretty notable aspect of the line practice (see: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/15/step4). While it's not a revision-worthy error, I suggest that you go back and add these lines anyway for your own benefit.

• Your table of ellipses includes a variety of ellipse degrees and angles, the space was used well and your ellipses are drawn through. Well done.

• Your funnels exercise is similarly well-executed, the ellipses stay within the bounds of the curves and are split symmetrically along the minor axis. Great job keeping up the confident linework here. For an extra challenge, I would recommend that for future iterations of this exercise, you try varying the degree of your ellipses to create the illusion of expansion as you move out from the center (see: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3).

• Your plotted perspective exercise is also satisfactory. Each box traces back to its appropriate vanishing points, and the vertical edges are parallel and drawn to the appropriate corners.

• Your rough perspective exercise is well done, each front and rear plane is believably parallel in space and a good attempt was made to extend each back toward the vanishing point. Try not to slow down your markmaking for the sake of avoiding overshooting -- remember, confidence is your first priority, and that extends to every exercise we do in Drawabox going forward. Line quality is broken down into various "levels" (see: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/levels) in the Ghosted Lines section, all of which are acceptable for Drawabox work, but the core of each is that the lines are drawn without wavering or self-doubt.

• Rotated boxes is an (in)famously challenging piece of homework, and it looks like you've properly grasped the concepts of edge alignment, rotation, and mirroring your boxes. Great work.

• For your organic perspective exercise, I see a great variety in Y shapes and sizes; this method of freeform drawing will serve you well in the box challenge. I also see that you tried drawing some boxes much larger (closer to the viewer) and some much smaller (farther) -- very nice! Implying depth through size is a foundational perspective trick. It looks like you may have been trying to add weight to some of your edge lines to assist in the size illusion -- this is fine for this exercise, but make sure you have a method of adding line weight to keep your marks from looking like they've just been doubled over due to redrawing. While I should caution that most exercises should not have added line weight to keep the forms clear and readable, some exercises will explicitly say that line weight is fine, in which case a good rule of thumb is to outline the form using one or two strokes at most, and leave the internal lines untouched. Please take care to only add line weight where it has been permitted, as otherwise it could be mistaken as redrawn lines and be held against you.

In all: great work! I'm very pleased to mark your Lesson 1 as done and give you the go-ahead for the box challenge. Keep these exercises in your warmup rotation, I like to recommend this handy tool (https://mark-gerarts.github.io/draw-a-card/) to help you choose a warmup before you begin future Drawabox work. Congratulations!