Hey there Languid, congratulations on your submission of Lesson 1! My name is Mickey and I'll be providing your critique this round. Let's get to it!

• In your superimposed lines, I see quite a bit of wobbling in each line, suggesting that you may not be fully trusting the process yet and are still trying to control your marks using slower movements (see: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/wobbling). Recall that the purpose of this exercise is to practice markmaking confidently, and that fraying (not following the original line perfectly) is totally fine. The video is particularly useful for this exercise, as it explains in greater depth the purpose and steps of the exercise compared to the written portion, so I recommend giving it another watch when you have time (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzGmoJanhbQ).

• Your ghosted lines exercise has also been done well, each mark begins correctly on one of the dots and follows through confidently. Accuracy is just a matter of mileage, so as you continue with this exercise in your warmups you'll find you can hit the mark more precisely, and more often, over time. Confidence will be your main focus whenever executing freehand lines, so don't worry as much about a mark being inaccurate as long as you put effort into making a bold mark.

• Revision needed: I'm seeing a return to wobbling in many of your ghosted planes marks, suggesting you may have been slowing down to try to land the endpoint more closely instead of prioritizing confidence. You seem very preoccupied with hitting the endpoints of your straight lines. It's critical to know that in Drawabox we prioritize confidence above everything else, to the point where back in Ghosted Lines we broke down acceptable marks into "levels," which include even marks that miss both endpoints (see: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/levels). I urge you to review both the written section and associated video of that link. Your ghosted ellipses in planes are mostly fine, although I see a few floating ellipses where it seems you weren't ghosting around the perimeter of the plane (see: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/floating), and you left a plane in the bottom right of your second page empty. My main concern here is that your straight line underconfidence is pervasive throughout the entirety of your work in this lesson, all the way through Organic Perspective. Check the revisions panel under this critique for your next steps.

• Your table of ellipses includes a variety of ellipse degrees and angles, the space was used well and your ellipses are drawn through. Well done.

• Your funnels exercise is similarly well-executed, the ellipses stay within the bounds of the curves and are split symmetrically along the minor axis. Great job making these strokes confident. For an extra challenge, in future iterations of this exercise you might try varying the degree of your ellipses to create the illusion of expansion as you move out from the center (see: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3).

• It looks like you rushed your plotted perspective work. You were not taking care to place your ruler carefully while connecting your construction lines, resulting in many lines not properly connecting with the vanishing points or being redrawn. It looks like the rear edges of your boxes were drawn freehand, when the instructions specify that this entire exercise (minus the optional hatching) is to be done with ruler (see: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/19/video). The hatching on one of your first boxes is so thickly done that it conceals your linework entirely, which is not what we use hatching for in this course (see: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/19/step8). These are normally revision-worthy issues, but I'd rather you focus on your freehanded linework first, so I'll just leave you with these notes to review for when you return to this exercise in the future. Plotted perspective may seem tedious, but laying down construction lines carefully will be vital for later lessons, where you'll be using these networks of lines to construct complex objects such as cars and planes.

• In your rough perspective exercise, each front and rear plane is decently parallel in space and a good attempt was made to extend each back toward the vanishing point, but you still struggle with line confidence as most of your lines here have significant wobble to them.

• Rotated boxes is an infamously challenging piece of homework, and it's great to see you thinking through how boxes would rotate in space. While this exercise is largely a brain teaser and isn't necessary to "get right," your boxes are not drawn in line with each other, suggesting uncertainty in where each box is supposed to go (see: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/21/guessing). Recall that you can (and should) use the edges of the surrounding boxes to inform where you draw your next box, like so. You got this down for the first boxes you drew along the X and Y axes, but the boxes you use to fill the spaces between aren't aligned to any of your prior work. As said, this is a really tough exercise and not one we expect students to master at this point. When you return to rotated boxes as a warmup, try to think about how those outer boxes can be constructed based on the boxes around them, and rewatch the video on the exercise page to see how Uncomfortable works through this exercise.

• For your organic perspective exercise, I see some great experimentation with Y shapes and sizes; this method of freeform drawing will serve you well in the box challenge. I also see that you tried drawing some boxes much larger (closer to the viewer) and some much smaller (farther) -- very nice! Implying depth through size is a foundational perspective trick. I do see several redrawn lines, so keep in mind that we have a "one line, one attempt" rule in Drawabox: "Your job is to make a single smooth stroke. The second your pen touches the page, you need to accept that any opportunity to avoid a mistake has passed, and all you can do is commit to the motion and push through." It also looks like you may have been trying to add some line weight here -- this is fine for this exercise, but make sure you have a method of adding line weight to keep your marks from looking like they've just been doubled over due to redrawing. Here are some uses for line weight to make your boxes more readable.

In all: nice work! You're very close to completing Lesson 1, I'd just like to see you complete the exercise marked above before I can clear you for the box challenge. You have a revision pending, don't move on just yet!