Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today but before that I'll answer a few questions you had. In terms of your environment I would do whatever you need to do to help you focus on the drawing. If that's listening to music or a podcast that's fine. The ghosting shorter lines thing I'll touch a bit more in the critique. You should draw at whatever angle is most comfortable for you. Everybody draws a little bit differently but as long as you are engaging your shoulder and getting smooth linework whatever works for you is fine. Starting with your superimposed lines these look good. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your tapering on the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework and while your accuracy still needs work that tends to come with mileage more than anything.

Your table of ellipses is looking great. You are doing really well with drawing through all of your ellipses and focusing on smooth ellipse shapes over accuracy. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. Although accuracy is out end goal you want to be able to nail those consistently smooth ellipse shapes which you are doing pretty successfully. Your ellipses in funnels are also looking pretty good for the most part not seeing any real issues here. Your ellipses are off to a great start and it's really just a matter of keeping up your practice with them to get them more accurate. Nice work.

Plotted perspective looks fine nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective boxes are definitely having some issues with wobbly lines that you mentioned in your writeup. This is probably just happening because you are becoming too concerned with accuracy in the middle of making your mark. One of the reasons we use the ghosting method is so we can build up the muscle memory of our mark before hand so we can almost make it without thinking. This will be less accurate at first but the more we practice the more accurate we get with mileage. Otherwise you did a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice.

Your rotated box exercise was a decent attempt. I like that you drew this nice and big as this helps with thinking through complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps fairly consistent. You are still struggling a bit with the spatial thinking required for these rotations which is perfectly normal and in some cases you aren't really rotating your boxes but are instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective like on the left side. Please check the lesson notes here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercise is looking pretty good. You seem to be getting more comfortable with the ghosting method and drawing from the shoulder as your linework here is much improved over your rough perspective boxes. I am seeing a habit of redrawing lines pop up a bit which I would like you to avoid. Try and put down one line and stick with it. Your box constructions are fairly decent for the most part but the 250 box challenge will still be a great next step for you.

Overall this was an extremely solid submission with some nice growth shown in terms of line quality and your ellipses are off to a fantastic start. You are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey very well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge.