Congratulations on finishing lesson 1! My name is John and I decided I'd reach out and do a community critique.

• Superimposed lines: These look good. Fraying is sticking to one end, which is what we're looking for.

• Ghosted lines: There is still some wobbling in some of your lines. I suspect it is because you are slowing down in an effort to more accurately connect the dots (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/10/wobbling). Remember at this point, accuracy is a lower priority than drawing from the shoulder with clean, confident strokes.

• Ghosted planes: Again, remember that at this point, we are prioritizing straight confident lines over accuracy. Overall, your accuracy is very good, so when you have a line that is off, you feel the urge to redraw it. Try to control that urge and leave it to one line, even if it is pretty far off the mark from where you want it to be.

• Tables of Ellipses: Most of these look pretty good. You're doing a good job of touching the edges you want to touch and maintaining a confident stroke--with some notable exceptions. There are a couple places where it is looking like you are slowing down, and in an effort to get the ellipse to fit where you want it to, you end up with some wobbly shapes with multiple rounded corners rather than an ellipse (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/deformed). Most of the ellipses look quite good, though, so just stick to trusting the faster movement, and over time it will improve in accuracy.

• Ellipses in Planes: These look good and you're doing a good job of fitting the ellipses to the planes. In a lot of cases, you are drawing through more than 2-3 times. If you draw an incorrect ellipse and try to correct it by drawing over and over, you end up with a mess that has a correct ellipse somewhere inside, but it's still a mess that looks worse than if you had just gone with the initial, slightly incorrect ellipse.

• Funnels: You're doing a good job of touching the edges that you want to touch. Some of your ellipses (especially towards the ends of the funnels) are coming in at the wrong angle and have their minor axis tilted slightly away from the center line (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/notaligned).

• Plotted Perspective: Not much to say here. Looks good. You have a good understanding of what we're going for here.

• Rough Perspective: These are looking pretty good. There is a tiny amount of wobble creeping into some of your lines, and occasionally you are still redrawing lines. Just remember to tamp down on this impulse and realize that it's okay if you don't always hit the mark you're trying to hit, you don't need to redraw. Aside from that, the first of the three pages you drew for this exercise looks good as far as sticking to one point perspective. All boxes are aiming towards the same vanishing point. On the second page, it seems like each box is aiming towards a different vanishing point. Remember that we are sticking to one-point perspective for this exercise, which means that there will be one shared vanishing point for all of your boxes (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/not1point). There is also a third page (you only needed two), but this one looks a little better as far as the one point perspective, except this time it looks like in one frame, 2-3 boxes will be receding to one VP and 2-3 boxes will be receding to a second VP. So just remember that in 1-point perspective, everything goes back to the same VP.

• Rotated Boxes: This looks really good! Some of the rotations were off a little bit, but that's what we expect at this stage. Most are pretty on point, and it is clear that you are understanding how the boxes change as they rotate. Good job on drawing through the boxes and keeping the lines of adjacent boxes close to each other to help guide you.

• Organic Perspective: Your boxes are looking good and they look like you are mostly doing a good job of having the lines coverge to VPs. The 250 box challenge will help you take this to the next level. It also looks like you are redrawing a few lines here and there (even aside from drawing over them to emphasize line weight).

oh shoot i didn't noticed someone already critiqued your work, he also seems to have done a way better job than me.. anyways, i hope it will still be useful !

Hello, i’ll be the one handling the critique for your lesson 1.

-Lines

Your lines are looking pretty good ! they’re pretty confident although i notice a lot of wobbling lines so that’s a good start, but always keep in mind to prioritize confidence over accuracy !

Some of your lines are fraying on both ends in your superimposed lines exercise as well as your ghosted lines exercise your lines should never fray on the starting dot. Make sure you’re placing your pen carefully at the beginning of each lines.

You repeat your lines a lot in the ghosted planes exercise, no matter how off a line is you should never go over it, keep the line as if it were correct and move on !

-Ellipses

Your ellipses are drawn pretty confidently and you drew through them multiple times, i have not much to say on this section, it’s certainly not perfect but i’m confident that with practice you’ll get this.

-Boxes

here the first thing that caught my eye is your line-weight, line weight should be added with confident, ghosted lines and only to the part that overlaps, not the whole line.

also avoid adding line-weight to the inward lines of your boxes as it tends to make your boxes lose solidity, especially when the same thickness of lines is not found on your outwards lines

that’s all for my critique, i hope it will be helpful, good luck for the rest!!