Hey hey; welcome to drawabox! I’ll be looking through your submission today~

Starting off, your superimposed lines look decent, though I definitely wish you’d filled your pages a little more. You’ve cheated yourself out of some much-needed practice, like this. Either way, these are mostly smooth (though not fully- you might consider increasing your speed), and properly lined up at the start. They’re not always of a consistent trajectory, though, so be mindful of that. The ghosted lines are mostly confident, though I notice that they don’t always start at the correct starting point. Though it’s fine for them to stop short of, or overshoot, the ending point, they must start at the correct starting point. The former is an indication of a lack of mileage, and a different set of priorities; the latter is an indication of a lack of patience. Thankfully, this aspect of them seems to improve by the ghosted planes exercise, and not at the cost of their confidence, either. There are some confidence issues, however, in their non-diagonal center lines. This is likely because you, for whatever reason, didn’t plot start/end points for these lines, as per the instructions. Remember that all lines need start/end points, because all lines are drawn using the ghosting method (the first step of which is ‘plot stat/end points.)

The table of ellipses exercise looks a lot better in its second page, though even there your ellipses have a habit of starting off a little stiff, before finally stabilizing in their second rotation. Remember that the purpose of the ghosting method is to accustom your muscles to the movement you’ll be asking them to perform, before asking them to perform it. It’s important, then, to be fully comfortable with the motion before committing. Being so doesn’t ensure success, however; you need to also remember that once you commit to a line, its accuracy has been set in stone (in the previous step), and all you have a say in anymore is its confidence. If you stress about ‘is it going the right way’ then your confidence will suffer, so we don’t recommend it. This is exactly why the previous step is important, because it helps that. The ellipses in planes exercise also improves throughout the set (they started off bumpy, and pointy, with you prioritizing their confidence, but are looking much more rounded in their second page), but here, too, the same issue persists. It’s hard to tell whether it gets better in the funnels exercise as, for whatever reason, you’ve not drawn through your ellipses, here. Every ellipse you draw for this course needs to be drawn through, 2-3 times. Also, make your funnels a little bigger, and have your ellipses increase in size as they move away from the center, so you don’t need to draw 10000 of them per funnel.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean- nicely done.

The rough perspective exercise has a few issues. First, there’s the linework. Your lines here are quite a bit more wobbly than the ones in your ghosted lines/planes exercises, but they really shouldn’t be; what you’re doing is no different: you’re drawing a single line, from point A to point B. What they’re adding up to is different, certainly, but that makes no difference in the process itself. Remember that your unit of work here is a line. Second, there’s the convergences. These improve throughout the set, but they’re a little inconsistent, still. It’s important to remember that you’re not obligated to stick to your original points, here, if you find them to be unsatisfactory. (Check if they are by ghosting them to the horizon, and seeing where they intersect it.) That’s, indeed, why we use points to plan out our lines- because they don’t leave a significant mark on our page, and can, if needed, be ignored. Remember that you’re the one who decides when to move from the planning stage to the execution stage- so do so when you’re ready.

Solid attempt at the rotated boxes exercise. Right off the bat, I notice that you’re missing your edge boxes; be a little more attentive to the instructions, please. As for the rest of the exercise, it’s a little small, and your linework, here, too, is a little wobbly, but the gaps between the boxes are narrow, and they rotate comfortably as a result. Next time, try to draw a little bigger, as it gives your brain some more room to think, and take this one line at a time. This’ll not only improve your confidence, but also inform your convergences, as you’ll be properly thinking about each line’s purpose.

Save for the aforementioned issues in line confidence, and some new ones, of the automatic reinforcing variety, the organic perspective exercise looks nice. You’ve got a bunch of boxes here (though not necessarily as many overlaps), that increase in size, but maintain a consistent, shallow foreshortening as they follow the flow line. This does a good job of communicating their flow. Next time, I’ll recommend having them overlap a bunch, and clarifying said overlaps with some lineweight, as well as experimenting with some extreme scale.

Now, before I have you move on to the box challenge, I’d like to see the following: