Well done for completing lesson 1. Yes, this course is much more challenging than it appears. Some people come in thinking it will be a breeze so they skip lesson 0, don’t read the written instructions properly and end up giving up when given critique or when they realise that it’s not so simple they give up. But keep pressing on! The key to this course is patience, perseverance and consistency. Consistency doesn’t necessarily mean everyday, it may be every 2 days even but as long as you don’t leave huge gaps it’s fine but it may happen.

Take your time the point of the course is not a pretty picture but to build fundamental mark making and understand concepts around perspective and the illusion of 3D on a 2D page.

Critique

Superimposed lines:

Your lines are very hesitant. It’s better to sacrifice accuracy for a smooth, confident line. Accuracy improves over time anyways. Ensure you are working from your shoulder when making any line.

Ghosted lines:

Try not to repeat lines if you make mistakes, just move on. The lines here seem okay, a little shaky but no major critique.

Ghosted planes:

Lines are a bit shakier here. Work from the shoulder to ghost until you are comfortable. Again accuracy may be sacrificed to create a confident mark.

Ellipses in a plane:

The major issue is that the ellipses should fit snuggly within the bounds of the plane as shown here https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/267cf168.jpg

Funnels and table of ellipses:

Your ellipse are quite shaky again, ghost until confident. Ensure the ellipses are touch neighbouring ellipses and the bounds the row.

Rotated boxes:

I see you struggled here, but don’t worry because this is a difficult exercise. I’d say it would have been better to draw bigger as it makes it easier to figure out what is going on. Your sense of rotation, perspective etc. will improve with time.

Rough perspective:

The major issue is you have plotted your line to the vanishing point and not to where they would extend to as detailed here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/step6

Every vertical line should be perpendicular to the horizon line and every horizontal line should be parallel to the horizon line as detailed here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/guessing

I advise you don’t use pencil but a different coloured pen. It doesn’t have to be a fine liner as long as it doesn’t smudge and ruin your work. Also don’t doodle on submissions, keep work neat and presentable.

Organic perspective:

I feel like you could have created more depth by drawing larger boxes closer to the viewer. Construction of boxes with be explained moving onto the 250 box challenge so not much much to comment on there.