Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on completing Lesson 1. Let’s take it one exercise at a time, shall we?

Starting off, your superimposed lines look mostly good. They’re smooth, and properly lined up at the start but not always of a consistent trajectory, so be mindful of that. The idea is to have the line be smooth, and straight, not so much to have it be snug to the guideline. So work with those priorities in mind. The ghosted lines/planes look fairly confident, but it seems as if, more often than not, you’ve forgotten to plot start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes. As such, those lines have a habit of stopping a little short of their end points, at which point you’ll then artificially extend them. This is not something we like to see. We’re, actually, perfectly fine with a line stopping short, or overshooting its goal. The problems begin when its trajectory is not consistent, or it happens to wobble, or arc, to meet those same points. Because, again, our priority lies in our lines being smooth, and straight.

The table of ellipses exercise shows a decent start, but also a similar misunderstanding. It seems like, here, you’re more concerned with having your ellipses fit inside of their respective frames, than being smooth, and rounded, but that’s having things backwards! Nothing exemplifies this further than the ellipses in planes exercise, where your ellipses completely deform in an effort to fill up their frames. It’s always a good idea, with exercises that have 2 pages, to try out a page by yourself, and then look at the example homework on the website, and compare. If you do, I think a lot of these issues will jump out to you, too. As for the funnels, they don’t struggle with that so much, but they do contain the most wobbly out of all of your ellipses. Here, too, you shouldn’t be too concerned with the various things that we ask you to do, to the point where it starts to affect your confidence. That’s why there’s a split, y’know? There’s a time for thinking about all of those things – when you ghost – and a time for thinking of nothing, but confidence – when you commit.

The plotted perspective exercise looks good, if a little thick. Even a single superimposed line is enough to make something stand out, so keep that in mind: you always need a little less than you think.

The rough perspective exercise is a little mixed. Its convergences are solid (save for that last frame, somehow? – I’ll assume this was a different day), but its line-work is still a little lacking. For one, I’d ditch the line-weight entirely; it’s unnecessary for this exercise. Beyond that, I’d remind myself that, though the big picture is different, there’s actually no difference between these lines, and the ones in the ghosted lines/planes exercise. If those could be confident, so, too, can these.

The rotated boxes has similar issues with line-work, but this is a complicated exercise, and you’ve drawn your boxes quite small, too, so I’ll assume it’s mostly due to those reasons that this is the case. The exercise itself looks mostly good. You’ve – most important of all – seen it through to the end, and though your boxes don’t do a great job of rotating (up front, or in the back), they’re nice and snug.

Save for some occasional issues in size, and foreshortening, the organic perspective exercise, too, looks fine. By the way, there’s no need – and in fact, it’s better if you don’t! – to plot the entirety of your boxes if they’re off the frame. As for the other issues, here and elsewhere in this section, the box challenge will take care of them, so not to worry.