Hello there Harmin!
Overall, you're off to a pretty decent start.
Lines
Lines are admittedly off to a wobbly. start. It appears you are focusing on maintaining accurate lines, making sure they start and end at the points you have established. As this is an introduction to get you to develop shoulder muscle memory, it's ok to sacrifice accuracy. The primary focus is to gain smooth, confident strokes using your shoulder. And as you develop the muscle memory and become more confident, you can hone in on being more accurate. With that said, as you go through your exercises and into boxes, I notice there are some nice smooth strokes, but they are still mixed with wobbly lines.
Ellipses
Similar with lines, ellipses are off to a wobbly start. There are some nice, decent ellipses that have smooth and confident strokes. Also, be careful of ellipses that turn sharply as you try to fit them in their allotted spaces. Just as with lines, focus on developing the confident strokes first and then focus on accuracy, then finally on roundness. Ellipses are certainly challenging, so don't be discouraged! It'll take time, but continue to practice and try to play with speed a bit (e.g.-speeding them up a bit) until you find a speed that you can control and maintain confident strokes with. Your ellipses in funnels are generally aligned the minor axis, so nice job with that.
Boxes
Before I go into detail of each exercise, I want to point out to be careful not to reinforce/correct lines. No matter how wrong and no matter how tempting it is to correct an errant line, do not do so. To help with this, you can use dots to your advantage and move them as needed (which you are already doing, so that is great). As aforementioned, it's ok to be off on accuracy a bit at this time.
Rough Perspective
The vertical lines are generally perpendicular to the horizon line, and horizontal lines are parallel to it. So nice job in maintaining that. The convergences on the boxes are not too bad either, as the lines of the planes' edges go back on the horizon line near your targeted vanishing point. I would like to encourage you to also try boxes that are further away from the vanishing point.
Rotated boxes
First, congratulations on getting through this exercise! It's certainly a tough one. The boxes along the vertical and horizontal axes are generally [not rotating] (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating), meaning they are sharing a similar or the same vanishing point. Otherwise, the boxes are fairly well neighobred to each other and you are drawing through each box.
Organic Perspective
As the boxes move away from the viewer, they convey a sense they are slightly getting smaller, so nice job with that. There are some typical issues with a shared set of parallel lines diverging, making the farther edge of a plane larger rather than smaller. But no worries, you will delve into this more in the 250 box challenge!
Next Steps:
Congratulations on completing lesson 1!
Continue to use these exercises as part of your warm ups (about 10-15 minutes)
Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge
Don’t forget to take breaks and draw for fun!
Also, now that you’ve completed Lesson 1, I encourage you to critique some Lesson 1 community submissions. Not only will this help the community, but it will also solidify and reinforce your understanding of the material. Of course, this is optional (but we’d be especially grateful!). If you’d like to give it a shot, see this guide that was created by one of our community members on how to go about critiquing Lesson 1: https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ
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