Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on completing Lesson 1. I’m TA Benj, and I’ll be taking a look at how you did.

Starting with your superimposed lines, I’m wondering if all of these have been drawn through 8 times, as instructed? Some of the latter ones, I notice, are quite thin, though I suppose you could be just that good! :P Your ghosted lines look good, if perhaps a little unambitious. We’d ideally like to see some longer ones mixed in there, too. This is better once your reach the planes exercise, and I certainly appreciate that you’ve filled your pages to the brim. One minor thing is that the start/end points of our lines need to be such that a perfect line swallows them both. Yours, currently, are a little too large. It’s a small thing however.

The table of ellipses exercise looks good. Your ellipses are perhaps a little boring (they’re most of them fully upright, so you haven’t experimented with many different angles), but they’re well drawn: smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. The ellipses in planes are mostly well done, but I notice that you’ll sometimes hesitate a little as you draw them. Remember that what’s most important for us is confidence, not accuracy. In other words, a smooth, rounded ellipse, that somewhat misses its mark is perfectly correct. A wobbly one, that is super accurate, on the other hand, is not. So make your decisions accordingly. Nice work with the funnels, too. There’s the occasional misaligned ellipse, so you’ll want to spend another second or two ghosting these, but otherwise, you’re looking good. Your ellipses are confident, snug, and properly cut in half.

The plotted perspective exercise looks good. You should’ve used a ruler for your hatching lines, but it’s alright either way. Nice work with your rough perspective exercise. Your boxes here start off strong, and improve nicely throughout the set. What you’ll want to pay attention to next, is the angles of your lines! Since we’re dealing with 1 point perspective, 1 set of them heads towards the vanishing point, whereas the other 2 are at infinity. What this means is that they need to be either parallel or perpendicular to the horizon. If your points suggest otherwise, then it’s your points that are wrong! Great attempt at the rotated boxes exercise, too! It’s a little small (or maybe your page is big?), but its boxes are snug, and properly rotating. They’re, at times, a little flat in the back, but that’s perfectly normal, and nothing worth stressing over. Do be careful with your linework, however. It’s a little wobbly here, and there’s really no need for it to be! After all, though these lines are adding up to something that’s quite complex, all they are, after all, is a collection of lines, that you draw one at a time. If they could be confident in the ghosted lines exercise, they can be confident here, too, so try not to let the big picture overwhelm you if possible. Finally, the organic perspective exercise looks great! You’ve got a good number of boxes here, and their size and foreshortening is such that they flow quite well. They’re also quite well constructed, but be careful that you plan your lines properly. Don’t extend a line arbitrarily, only to meet it from the other side, extend it knowing exactly how it should behave. No stress, however, we’ll be going into this and more in the upcoming box challenge.