Lines are pretty good in general, you do have a bit of wobbly and arching at times, but just in a few of them, keep focusing on confidence and accuracy will come with practice. For the arching lines, check if you're drawing with your shoulder, as working with your elbow/wrist can cause this, and trying to arch your lines in the opposite direction can help as well.
Ellipses are pretty confident and smooth in general too, you do have a bit of wobble in some of them, so don't forget you should prioritize confidence over accuracy on those too, but overall pretty good job. On the funnels, the minor axis has to cut the ellipses in 2 identical halves, and some of yours are shifting a bit, but you seem to be aware of it, so no worries.
Good job on boxes too in general, though I want to point out some things.
-Don't repeat lines, no matter how off they are, keep going as if they'd been correct, as correcting them will only make the drawing more messy.
-On rough perspective, height lines need to be perpendicular to the horizon line, and width lines parallel to it. I know it's hard, but be sure you keep it in mind while attempting the exercise.
-And lastly on organic perspective, you do have some overshoots in some lines, which hints me you might not be plotting your lines, don't forget to start a line by drawing starting and ending dots, and then ghosting it until you're confident. On this exercise as well, I recommend trying more overlaps. Perspective on the boxes have divergences, but no worries as you'll work on it on the box challenge
Next Steps:
First of all, congratulations on finishing lesson 1! Your next step is the box challenge.
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 submissions.
-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts. I can atest to that after having done hundreds of critiques. There are a lot of concepts that I did not understand, and thanks to critiquing I started understanding them. Which made me learn a lot more through the course.
-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high, if you critique some critiques, those would be less critiques I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster.
It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.
Good luck on the box challenge, and keep up the good work!
NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to it so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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