Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on completing Lesson 1! Let’s take a look at how you did, shall we?

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are, unfortunately, a little wobbly. Not especially long, either, which is a bit of a problem (try to build up to lines that span the whole width of the page!) For now, I’ll just remind you that our goal in this exercise (in all of them, actually), isn’t for our lines to be accurate (in this case, stick close to the guideline), but rather for them to be confident (so straight, and smooth). Try to aim for that. The ghosted lines/planes have a similar problem, I’m sorry to say. Continuing from where I left off, to that end, it’s important for you to patiently ghost a line, until you feel ready to execute it, and then commit to it. In doing so, you’ll, in the ghosting stage, have taken care of its accuracy, and, in the execution stage, can focus entirely on its confidence. It is by splitting our work into manageable chunks as such that we’re able to perform well – trying to do many things at once will only lead to doing none of them particularly well.

A similar philosophy can be applied to the ellipses, too (and it need be applied, because the ones in the table of ellipses exercise are a little wobbly). Namely, that we prioritize their smoothness, and roundness, not their accuracy. In other words, it’s perfectly fine for them to overshoot, or fall short of their frame, or for their rotations to not match up. The same goes for your ellipses in planes, and funnels – though the good news is that, aside from their issues of confidence, they’ve no other errors. Still, confidence issues need to be addressed before moving on, as they provide the foundation upon which all other concepts are built upon.

The plotted perspective exercise is well done.

The rough perspective exercise is mixed. Linework is, still, a problem, though that’s to be expected. Convergences, on the other hand, I held out some hope for, and though they do show some improvement over the set, they’re still not quite there, even by the end. Remember that you’re allowed – encouraged, even – to correct your points, if you find them to be lacking. In other words, the ideal is to plot a point, check it (by ghosting it to the vanishing point), and alter it as needed, repeating the process until satisfied.

Ignoring linework, the rotated boxes exercise is well done. Up front, your boxes are snug, and properly rotating. Out back, you do run into some issues – the planes here are a little flat, and they don’t exactly stick close to their neighbors – but that’s entirely expected, and all that matters, really, is that you saw the exercise through to the end.

The organic perspective exercise has the best linework of this submission, though, still, it’s not quite there, so consider dismissing any notions of it needing to be accurate, henceforth. Leaving that aside, the boxes themselves are well constructed, and, though their increase in size isn’t so obvious as to communicate the illusion we’re after, it nonetheless does, as per the consistent, shallow foreshortening of your boxes. Keep that up.