Hello, and welcome to drawabox. I’ll be taking a look at your Lesson 1 submission today.

Starting with your superimposed lines, these look quite good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. The ghosted lines/planes look quite solid, too, and I’m pleased to see how boldly you’re missing some of your end points. That said, make sure that said end points are, you know, points, not short lines.

Moving on to the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise is nicely done. Your ellipses are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through; there’s a great deal of variety to their degrees/angles, too, which is great to see. The ellipses in planes, too, do a great job of maintaining their prior smoothness/roundness, despite their more complicated frames. As for the funnels, their confidence dips a little, but I’ll attribute this to the size of your ellipses, exclusively. As you know, the smaller a mark, the harder it is to engage one’s shoulder for it; as such, we always encourage our students to draw big.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

The rough perspective exercise starts off strong, and shows some nice improvement throughout the set. I’m especially pleased to see how effortlessly you’re plotting your convergences in your second page, as compared to your first.

The rotated boxes exercise looks great! It’s big (huge positive, as mentioned earlier!), and its boxes are snug, and though their rotation is a little slight, the attempt is there, which is all that matters. We’ll get a little bit more into how to fight against our brain (and its resistance to rotation) in the box challenge, so hold out until then, to see some further improvement here.

Finally, the organic perspective exercise looks fantastic. You’ve got some interesting compositions, here, and your boxes, too, are very well constructed. That, in addition to their size, and foreshortening, make it so that they flow quite well.