Hello! Welcome to drawabox! I’ll be handing your lesson 1 submission today. Let’s get to it.

Starting with your superimposed lines, these look good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. I’d have liked to have seen a few more per page, but that’s alright. In regards to the arcing ones, however, see if you can make them a little bigger- smaller motions are, as you’ve found out, a little difficult from the shoulder, so we don’t recommend them for starting students. The ghosted lines/planes look good, save for a few issues. First, they’re a little wavy, indicating to me that you might be drawing these a little too fast. Be sure to experiment with a bunch of speeds, and ultimately go for the one that gives you the most accurate, though still confident lines. Second, I notice that there’s a bit of an overshooting issue. This is, thankfully, mostly fixed by the end of this submission, but be mindful of it, anyway.

The table of ellipses exercise is not quite there, unfortunately. For starters, your ellipses are neither smooth, nor rounded. They’re a little stiff, especially in their first rotations, indicative of a lack of ghosting. Remember that the purpose of the ghosting motion is to familiarize your muscles with the action you’ll be asking them to perform. Committing to it before you’re comfortable with it will result in stiff, wobbly marks. Be sure, also, that your ellipses are rounded. A bumpy ellipse is an indication of a student that’s more concerned with accuracy (trying to fill as much of the frame as possible), than confidence. A pointy one is an indication of a lesser pivot (elbow/wrist) poking its head in. Both are incorrect. Further, ellipses need to be of a constant degree/angle in a frame, so be mindful of that. The ellipses in planes exercise shows improvement. Your ellipses are smoother, though not necessarily more rounded, than their counterparts in the previous exercise. Here, too, it’s more important for an ellipse to be circular, than it is for it to fill the entirety of the plane. This persists in the funnels exercise, too, though you’ve got some good ones here, as well. Be a little more mindful of your minor axis, however- the entire point of the exercise is to align your ellipses to it, in such a way that they’re cut into two equal, symmetrical halves by it.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean, though be a little more careful that the 3rd set of lines, the one that’s meant to be fully perpendicular to the horizon is.

The rough perspective exercise has quite a few issues, unfortunately. For starters, there’s the linework. Though it’s mostly good, there’s the occasional dip in confidence, so be mindful of that. Try not to get overwhelmed by the big picture- this exercise is just a collection of lines. Be careful, also, not to automatically reinforce your lines, either by correcting them when they’re incorrect, or extending them when they stop short. Next, there’s the convergences. Starting with the 2 sets that need to be parallel/perpendicular to the horizon, these aren’t always. Be careful, during your planning, to plan not only for the convergences to the VP, but also for the lines to be at infinity, as per the requirements of 1-point perspective. Speaking of the convergences to the VP (the third set), though this improve throughout the set, they’re still not quite there. Spend a little longer planning these, if you can. Remember that it’s up to you to decide when to move from the planning stage to the execution stage, so do so when you’re ready.

Save for some issues in line confidence (again, think back to the unit of work), the rotated boxes exercise looks solid. It’s fairly big, and has been seen though to the end; ultimately, that’s all we’re looking for. I will call out the other issues, however, so you can be more mindful of them for next time. For starters, the gaps between your boxes aren’t always narrow. Partly because of this, but this was also the case with the axis boxes, too—they don’t quite rotate. The far planes of your boxes, also, are a little flat. Now, these issues are simply solved by doing 2 things. First, understanding the technicalities of perspective, which we’ll get in to in the 250 box challenge. And second, by giving yourself time to consider them all. As such, I will request that you spend a little longer on this exercise, the next time you attempt it. Properly think about each line; how it should behave, and why, and you’re sure to start improving.

The organic perspective exercise has a single, simple issue- most of your lines are diverging, rather than converging. This is not a concern of this exercise, of course, but I figured I’d mention it; if you thought they looked a little off, but couldn’t quite place why, that’s why. Ignoring that, they properly follow the flow line, increasing in size as they do. (Intended foreshortening is hard to judge, because of said divergences.) Even looking at them, however, one gets the feeling that they’re coming towards you, so the illusion is successfully conveyed.

Now, before I have you move on to the box challenge, I’d like you to give me a few things.