Congratulations on finishing the lesson! Let’s take a look at your submission. I know this critique is pretty long, but make sure you at least read the first and last paragraphs.

Lines.

The first thing I noticed is the doodles on your page. Though you stopped adding them in later pages, I just want to remind you to always keep work and play separate. I understand that the lessons can get really tedious, but this is exactly why the 50% rule exists, so that you can relieve your pent-up stress outside of lesson time and use your full concentration on the material you’re learning. So make sure you’re keeping up with it! That said, onto the homework itself:

Superimposed lines: It looks like you were able to avoid fraying on the starting point, so good job with that. However, your lines show some pretty significant wobbling, which continues into some of your later exercises as well. I want you to check again that you are drawing from the shoulder, and speed up your stroke if necessary. Also, this is a small thing, but you don’t need to mark points on both ends of the line, just the one you start at.

Ghosted lines: These look smooth, and you’ve marked both endpoints properly. However, there’s some significant arching here that I want you to pay more attention to: for fixing arching near the beginning, move faster and don’t push too hard on the paper. For arching in the middle, consciously try to move your arm in the opposite direction of the arch. For arching near the end, don’t worry so much about meeting the endpoint and just follow through with your original trajectory.

Ellipses.

Table of ellipses: These look great! Your ellipses look smooth and confident, and most of them are repeated for exactly 2 total revolutions. The only thing I’d comment on is that your ellipses don’t always touch each other/the border, and they also sometimes overlap. When you ghost them, make sure you’re aiming to touch the adjacent objects, but not overlapping them.

Ellipses in planes: These also look very smooth, however you don’t always touch the edges of the planes without overlapping them. And when you do touch the edges, sometimes you distort the ellipse in the process. I would recommend just taking some more time and ghosting your ellipses more times, making sure that they would have the proper shape, and that they touch all the edges, before committing to paper.

Funnels: good job aligning the minor axis of all the ellipses to the line, but try to make sure that all your ellipses touch!

Boxes.

Plotted perspective: good job!

Rough perspective: Remember that you are supposed to split the page into 3 parts, so that you can practice more different scene setups and keep your foreshortening more manageable. Sorry, but I am going to request that you redo another page of this to make sure that you understood the instructions.

Rotated boxes: Your rotations look good on the top half; there’s some places that could have been rotated better but we’re not asking that level of precision from you yet. On the bottom half, however, you are missing five boxes. Remember that you should add two rows of boxes on each side of the central box. I also see that you started adding silhouette in the cracks, but did not continue all the way through. I won’t require that you redo this whole exercise, but could you finish the last five boxes for the bottom half and also finish shading all of the cracks?

Organic perspective: Looks good! Your boxes rotate naturally and feel like part of the same scene. I do notice that you seem to have repeated some of the lines – this is not required for this particular exercise, nor is it recommended.

Conclusion.

You are off to a good start; your lines are getting better as the exercises go on, and you’ve started getting a basic grasp of perspective. I recommend that you keep doing some of the lesson 1 homework, especially ellipses in planes, as warm-ups when you start on the other lessons. Before you can move on though, I do want to make sure you finish all the assignments as instructed. Also, keep the 50% rule in mind! This is the single most important rule to follow as you progress though Drawabox. It felt at some points that you were getting bored/tired/burnt out, and drawing for fun will help with all these by providing stimulation, stress relief, and a reminder of why you started learning art in the first place. Welcome to Drawabox, and good luck with the rest of the lessons!