Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good but I am noticing that you aren't always drawing through your ellipses and if you are you are doing 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 times. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/drawingthrough So this is just a reminder that you need to draw through EVERY single ellipse you draw for all of these lessons and sure to draw through 2 - 3 times. Even if you think you got it right the first time. Your ellipses in planes are decent and it's good you are focusing on a smooth overall shape. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. Some of your ellipses in funnels are having some issues with tilting off the minor axis. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/notaligned This is something you should always start considering when drawing your ellipses. One thing you could have done with these is start with a narrower degree ellipse in the center and then widen the degrees of the ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel. Please check the example here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3 This helps with practicing different degrees of ellipses. Since you didn't really consistently draw through your ellipses on any of these pages and I think you could use a little more practice with ellipses anyways I'd like you to do one more page of ellipses in funnels as a revision. The main thing I want is for you to make sure you are always drawing through your ellipses 2 - 3 times.

The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty well. You are getting a mix of confident linework here along with some wobble creeping back into some of your lines. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/wobblinglines This is probably happening because you are more concerned with accuracy now that you are constructing boxes and you are slowing down your stroke to compensate. That hesitation because of your concern for accuracy while making your mark is what is reintroducing the wobble into your lines. Try and rely a bit more on the muscle memory you build up while ghosting your mark and almost make your mark without thinking. This will be less accurate at first but will give you consistently smooth and confident linework which is our first priority. Accuracy will come with mileage and can't really be forced. You are doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice. One thing that can help you a bit when doing a one point perspective exercise like this is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be perpendicular(straight up and down in this case) to the horizon line. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.

Your rotated box exercise was obviously a bit of a struggle. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You did a good job drawing through your boxes but one of the reasons this exercise started to fall apart on you is because you didn't keep the gaps between your boxes narrow and consistent. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/21/guessing Keeping the gaps narrow and consistent really helps with inferring information about neighboring boxes rotation and proportion. You are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases(you can see this happening on the top side there is rotation on the other sides) but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/21/notrotating I can see that you were a bit perplexed by the corners but please don't just leave something blank if you don't understand it as you will be assigned revisions in the future for doing so. A big part of learning how to draw is getting used to working outside of your comfort zone so at least attempt to put something down even if you don't fully understand it. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good. You seem to be getting more comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework for the most part. I'm still seeing a tad bit of wobble which tells me you are still slowing down your stroke for accuracy. Remember to fully commit to your marks and it's okay if your line is slightly off as our current priority is a confident smooth line. I have a few notes about added hatch marks that I'd like to share. These are optional but if you do choose to add them make sure to treat them like any other line you would draw for these lessons. This means planning with point, ghosting, and then drawing from your shoulder with confidence. Also make sure they connect from end to end of the plane and aren't just floating in the middle. Your box constructions are fairly wonky throughout this exercise and you need to develop a better sense for how box lines converge to vps so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.

Overall this was a pretty solid submission that showed a good deal of growth. Remember to fully commit to your lines once you go to make them and don't hesistate and slow down midstroke for the sake of accuracy as that is what is causing the wobble I'm seeing. Also make sure to always draw through your ellipses 2 - 3 times. Otherwise, I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey fairly well. Once you get that revisions submitted and I take a look you can most likely move on to the 250 box challenge.