Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses for the most part and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. I am seeing with this exercise and some of your other ellipse exercises that you aren't always drawing through your ellipses so this is just a reminder that you need to draw through every single ellipse your draw for all of these lessons without exceptions. Even if you feel like you got it right the first time make sure you draw through. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/drawingthrough Your ellipses in funnels are having some slight issues with tilting off the minor axis. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/notaligned This is something you should always start considering when drawing your ellipses. Your ellipses are off to a great start but there's still room for improvement when it comes to accuracy so keep practicing them during your warmups.

The plotted perspective exercise is missing and I'll need to see that before I can mark this as complete. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/15/example Your rough perspective exercise have several issues we need to look at. The major problem is that you simply didn't finish drawing any of the boxes. There are numerous missing depth lines and back legs on nearly every box. Yuor completed boxes should look like the examples shown here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/step5 Secondly, while you have a lot of confident linework with this exercise there is also a lot of redrawn lines which is introducing wobble to initially confidnet linework. Try and get more into the habit of just putting down a single confident line and sticking with it. Secondly you don't appear to always be using placement dots to plan your lines which you should be doing for every single line you draw for all of these lessons. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/10/planning It is a key part of the planning stage and really helps to remove thinking about accuracy from the actual markmaking process where your only concern should be a confident line. Thirdly, you incorrectly extending all of your lines to vp. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/plottinglines You are supposed to be extending the depth lines on your boxes back to the horizon line as shown here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/step6 Part of the issue you are having though is that you didn't always draw the depth lines in on your boxes. So as there multiple errors here and you didn't really follow the instructions I'd like you to redo both pages of this exercises and go through the material again a bit more carfefully and take your time with this one. One thing that can help you a bit when doing a one point perspective exercise like this is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be perpendicular(straight up and down in this case) to the horizon line. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.

Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty well. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases(mainly the top and right side you are getting some rotation on the left and bottom) but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/notrotating This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good. You are getting mostly confident linework here along with some wobble creeping back into some of your lines. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/wobbling That hesitation because of your concern for accuracy while making your mark is what is reintroducing the wobble into your lines. Try and rely a bit more on the muscle memory you build up while ghosting your mark and almost make your mark without thinking. This will be less accurate at first but will give you consistently smooth and confident linework which is our first priority. Accuracy will come with mileage and can't really be forced. While you have some solid box constructions here those are relying pretty heavily on parallel lines for their constructions. The 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you in order to develop a better understanding of how box lines need to converge to vp's.

Overall this was a pretty good submssion that showed a good deal of growth. Your ellispes are coming along well just make sure you always draw through your ellipses. The main issue here is that the rough perspective exercise felt very rushed and you didn't read the instructions well enough. Once you get those revisions in as well as the missing plotted perspective exercise I'll take a look and you can most likely move on to the 250 box challenge.