Hi Illo! Welcome to DAB. I'll be reviewing your homework today. I'll go over what you've produced here and give you some pointers as to what things you're doing well, as well as point out which things you're having difficulty with and some of the technical and conceptual ideas we can implement to improve on them.

On Linework:

Overall you're doing well on your straight lines. On the superimposed lines exercise you've done a good job at pushing through the lines with confidence. You've also taken the time to place your pen down carefully and not rush into the execution, as noted by your ability to keep fraying at the start point to a minimum. Across your ghosted lines and ghosted planes exercise you're making a good attempt at utilising the ghosting technique to keep your lines straight and confident.

I can see that you're consciously trying to apply the concepts taught in the lesson, but as you're new you're not experienced in applying it yet. A mistake I see (which is common amongst new students) is that you tend to wobble just at the start and end points of the line. At the start when your brain gets jolted "oh! Im actually drawing the line now- uh oh", and at the end "Oh I need to stop somewhere around here soon uhhhh". This is a common mistake, and won't be too hard to rectify. Just keep prioritising confidence and you'll ween this out as you get more mileage down drawing. The occassional wonky or curvy line will also smooth out and become straight as you develop more muscle memory. The key thing is practise and getting the mileage of drawing many, many lines. Make sure to keep in mind your objectives and the concepts taught in the markmaking section when drawing and you'll do just fine.

A very common mistake I notice amongst students is that, whilst they tend to produce admirable work on the first set of linework exercises, when they reach the boxes and perspective sections they throw everything they learnt straight out of the window. Students tend to get overwhelmed with the additional information and requirements of the exercise; "I have to draw this whole 3D box in perspective and think about how it converges to the horizon line and vanishing point.." leaving them caught up in the more complex requirements of the homework, forgetting the basics of linework as they strive to "get the box right". Understandably this can be a hard thing for students to keep track of at first, but it's of great importance to note because this can bleed into later lessons (and indeed your art practise as a whole). We should be striving for confident, smooth lines in everything we do. If we make exceptions because "Oh I need to get this box right", it's very easy to fall down a rabbit hole of "oh i need to get this piece of proportion right, I need to get this face right, I need to get this figure to have this line to go from A to B"... and as such we end up never implementing our linework techniques because we're too scared of "getting the line wrong". Push through with your linework techniques regardless, even if you end up missing. Whether that's an exercise in DrawAbox or your own artwork.

One issue I've noticed on your ellipses, which is notably more present on your tables of ellipses exercise, is that you seem to lack confidence with your draw-throughs. They seem to hesitantly cut off, or lie quite loose around the main ellipse as to not "mess it up". It is better to push through with your draw-throughs, even if it makes the ellipse look worse because it'll help you in the long run. You'll develop more confidence drawing ellipses, as well as give you more control over what kind of ellipse you want to draw. (Additionally this can be useful when we want to use ellipses to create solid, three dimensional forms in animals and the like, but that's a concept for a much later lesson.)

You do seem to have rectified this issue somewhat in your ellipses in planes, but I feel it's of value to point it out regardless just in case. As with the mark making exercises, you'll refine and hone your skills here through practise, so don't feel discouraged if they're not as clean as you'd like them to be now. You're doing just fine, keep it up and you'll reap the rewards.

On Perspective:

Perspective is often difficult for new students, as they have to grapple with conceptualising 3D space in a way their brain has never had to consider before. Nevertheless, you've made a good attempt across this section. It's not expected for students to produce the most outstanding work here, indeed, most students struggle as expected. I'd like you to not beat yourself up over this section as it's perfectly normal to struggle here. You'll get plenty of practise in the 250 box challenge to accustom your brain to working with perspective and 3D space. (as well as future lessons.)

I won't critique you too heavily here as there's already a lot of information to take in, and I think that at this stage it won't be of much use to you. For studying perspective, you'll find the 250 box challenge to be extremely helpful in developing your spatial awareness skills. After completion of that exercise, alongside your study of Lesson 2, you may wish to re-read the perspective notes in Lesson 1 (as well as the additional notes.) and re-attempt the organic perspective and rotated boxes exercise.

Overall, you've done pretty well on Lesson 1. Good job!