Hello, and welcome to drawabox. I’ll be taking a look at your Lesson 1 submission today.

Starting off, your superimposed lines – both the straight, and arcing ones – are looking solid. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. They do tend to fray a little earlier than we might expect them to, from time to time, so do be a little more mindful of your pivot if you can (you might be drawing with your elbow, without intending to), but, beyond that, there’s nothing to worry about at this stage. The ghosted lines/planes look equally confident, and I’m pleased to see that you’ve not forgotten to plot start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of the planes (most students do!) That said, try to be a little less conscious of those points; it’s perfectly fine if your lines stop short of them. What you don’t want to do is stress about it, and end up extending those lines in separate strokes, or, worse, redrawing them. That counts as automatic reinforcing, and it’s something that we discourage.

Moving on to the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise is well done; your ellipses here are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. Regarding that last bit, however, see if you can be a little more consistent about how many times you draw through them. Don’t decide on the spot, because then you’ll end up with really thick ellipses, should you ever mess up (students like to stick to 2 rotations, unless the first one doesn’t come out too well, at which point they’ll just keep going until those same mistakes have been hidden away…) Instead, decide the number ahead of time, and don’t let the errors bother you! The ellipses in planes are looking fairly confident, too, particularly in their second page. This is saying a lot, because it means that, despite the increased level of difficulty (as per their ever-changing frames) you’ve been able to maintain – and by page 2 even improve! – their prior level of confidence. The funnels, too, are nicely done; your ellipses here are snug, and properly cut in half by their respective axes.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean. You should’ve used a ruler for the hatching lines, by the way, but that’s alright.

For the rough perspective exercise, I’ll again remind you of our rules regarding automatic reinforcing. Beyond that, however, there’s no issues to speak of – your linework is confident, and your convergences on-point.

The rotated boxes exercise is well done. It’s big (though it could be bigger!), its boxes are snug, and they do a good job of rotating. This seems to be the case in the back, too, which is quite the accomplishment – normally at this stage, students have to choose between keeping their boxes snug, or having them be correctly constructed. I’m pleased to see that you’ve been able to do both, though it would’ve been no problem either way.

Finally, the organic perspective exercise is well done. You’ve got some interesting compositions, here, and they flow really well, as opposed to the size, and foreshortening of your boxes. Great work, and keep it up!