Good evening! I'm kotka#1891 on Discord and I'll be your reviewer tonight. Nice job finishing Lesson 1!

Lines

Your lines look very confident and while there is some arching, it is probably due to your shoulder learning how to move (alternatively, your arm tries to second-guess and take control during the draft). Try experimenting with slowing down and/or relaxing your elbow and wrist while still keeping it firmly in place. Eventually, you will find the perfect balance between locking off every joint but the shoulder, and the arches will get less and less dramatic with time. Keep practicing to find the proper feeling in the shoulder, and make sure that it doesn't tense so much it hurts afterwards (if so, you need to be careful and relax). Fraying of lines is expected and something that will slowly improve over time as you keep doing lines as warm-up, so don't worry too much about that.

I'm impressed that you barely have any overshooting in the Ghosted Lines exercise! God job! At the same time, I see that you miss the end point quite often. This is not a major mistake, but I have a great tip to experiment with: try to see if locking your eyes on the end point while drawing towards it can improve your accuracy. In your Ghosted Planes, these inaccuracies become more apparent, but, his exercise is also a lot more frustrating to finish. I think that you would benefit to do this exercise a little more often from your future warm-up pool. Already in your second Ghosted Planes, I see improvement, which means that you know what you need to do.

Ellipses

Confidence and fluent motion is more important than accuracy here. You have understood the assignment and done your best, but, your ellipse exercises need to have a bit more variety! You seem to choose very similar ellipse degrees, try experimenting a bit more. It will help you develop your skills. For now, it's fine, but make sure to include all kinds of degrees, axis and sizes for your ellipse practices. While your ellipses in funnels are sloppier than in the other exercises, they still adhere to the rules and are symmetrical enough.

Boxes

The Rotated Boxes is a very hard exercise, prone to a lot of mistakes. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you really tensed up here. It's very common. You have followed the instructions, and I appreciate that you decided for one line and one line only, and put it down no matter how it turned out. For this, you get a pass, because your mindset is correct!

A lot of the resulting boxes are wobbly though, and to me that signals a tense arm and/or problems with line planning/execution. Next time you do this exercise, apply all the techniques you demonstrated in the line exercises (because you definitely have confidence and understanding).

I see the same, albeit less dramatic, problem in Rough Perspective and Organic Perspective. Because the point of Lession 1 is understanding what needs to be done, not producing perfect drawings, you will get a pass for this, too.

Your submission gets the green light, because I can see that your line exercises are strong, so just keep applying line exercise concepts such as ghosting and planning your markmaking with dots to the more difficult exercises!