Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on completing Lesson 1. Let’s take this one exercise at a time, shall we?

Starting off, your superimposed lines are well done. They’re smooth and properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. I’m pleased to see that you’ve experimented with some arcing lines, too – these look good! Your ghosted lines/planes look mostly good, also. I notice, however, that these will sometimes arc a little near the ends. Likely what’s happening is that you’re giving your brain a chance to have a say in how the line looks (course correct, as it were), but this is not something we want! What we want is for our lines to behave as we instructed them during ghosting. I notice that this is particularly an issue with the non-diagonal center lines of your planes, so perhaps the fact that you haven’t plotted start/end points for these is the culprit. After all, that would mean that you’re not simply drawing a line from point A to point B (as with the others), but rather also having to think about its length and direction.

Onto the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise looks great! I love how big your ellipses are here, and they’re all of them smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. There’s not as much variety as we’d like when it comes to their degrees/angles, which is unfortunate, but not a huge deal, anyway. Your ellipses in planes are very well done, too. There’s a few instances where you’ll miss the plane by quite a lot, and I bring this up to say that that’s completely fine! Accuracy is no concern of ours – all we want is for our ellipses here to be smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. The funnels are a little complicated. They’re not bad, but the one at the top is so completely wrong, that it makes me wonder whether you just kind of drew what you saw, or if you properly understood what you were supposed to be doing. The minor axis of the funnel is meant to cut each ellipse into equal, symmetrical halves. Unfortunately, you’ve drawn one of the arcing lines in such a way as to make that impossible for you, in that particular funnel. Normally, you’d be allowed to redraw this, since it’s an issue with the frame itself (if the frame is wrong, the exercises will be wrong, too); that you haven’t, or even ignored it and moved on to the next, is a little strange. By the way, the minor axis should extend all the way through a funnel, also. Many of yours stop halfway through, and then you’ll keep adding ellipses that are essentially aligned to nothing.

The plotted perspective exercise starts the box section off well. If you’re worried about the back lines being a little crooked, don’t be – that’s simply a result of small accumulating errors throughout the box. The rough perspective exercise shows some good improvement throughout the set. Be careful, however, as even by the end, there’s the occasional back line that’s not parallel/perpendicular to the horizon. Your back shapes need to be rectangles, not trapezoids! If your points are such that they suggest that they should be, then it’s your points that are wrong. In which case, please take another look at things. Same as with the funnels, there’s no sense in doing something that you know is wrong. Good attempt at the rotated boxes exercise. You’ve certainly struggled, but this is expected. What’s important is to do your best, and see the exercise through to the end, anyway, which you have! Your main issue here – it appears to me – is that you weren’t sure when to respect the neighboring edges, and when to try to fix things yourself, seeing that they had gone wrong, which is an expected problem. As we progress through the box challenge, we’ll gain some knowledge that will make the second issue obsolete (and in the cases when it doesn’t, give us enough knowledge to be able to fix things, anyway), so no stress. For now however, you’re good! Good work with the organic perspective exercise. There’s the occasional diverging line, but for the most part, your boxes are well done. Be careful, however, that a box that overlaps another doesn’t hide it – we’re in the habit of drawing through our forms, when we can. Also, be a little more careful with the size of your boxes; they don’t flow as well as they should, here, since that’s a little inconsistent. A great start, however!