Hello, and welcome to drawabox. I’ll be taking a look at your lesson 1 submission today – let’s take this one exercise at a time.

Starting off, your superimposed lines look decent. There’s some fraying at the left, indicating to me that you’re not taking as long as you could be to line up your pen to the correct starting point. That said, this could be due to how many lines you’ve drawn, too – I see quite a lot more than 8 (8 being our recommendation). That said, the lines are smooth, so there’s that. Your ghosted lines/planes are a little strange, in that in don’t notice any start/end points. There’s a hint of what I could describe as one, from time to time, and I’ll assume that that’s what that is, but if not, please re-read the instructions. As for the lines themselves, they’re a little wobbly, unfortunately. Remember that, more so than accuracy, it is their confidence that we’re concerned with. In other words, a confident line is correct, regardless of how inaccurate; a wobbly line incorrect, regardless of how accurate.

The table of ellipses exercise shows a bit of a misunderstanding. After your first page, you should have checked the example homework a second time, making this clear to you, but I suppose you didn’t – try to make this a habit, from now on. Anyway, the issue is that your ellipses don’t touch all available edges of the frame, as they should, but rather float inside of them. They’re certainly smooth, and rounded, though this doesn’t mean much, considering. Also, you’ve drawn through them too many times; 2-3 times is the recommendation, ideally 2. This is the case for your ellipses in planes, too. It’s easy to be confident if you go around them 10 million times; the idea is to do it in 1 or 2 rotations. The funnels are mostly alright, though they have some alignment issues, and some spacing ones, too. To fix that, I’ll recommend spending a little longer ghosting them. Also, as your ellipses here are at times a little pointy, I’ll recommend being a little more mindful of your pivot, when you draw – always check back, to make sure that your lines are originating from your shoulder.

The plotted perspective boxes are missing their back lines.

For the rough perspective exercise, you don’t seem to have tried, much. Honestly, I can’t even tell where the vanishing point is. Still, I’ll assume that this is an honest mistake, and remind you that the idea is to draw a box not as you think it should look (i.e., having 3 sets of 4 parallel lines), but rather as how the points (your start/end points, that is) suggest that it should (i.e., one set of lines converging towards a vanishing point). To that end, it’s important to ghost, plot points, ghost again, alter the points as needed, until perfect.

More so than how ‘correct’ it is, the main issue with the rotated boxes exercise is that it’s unfinished. It’s important to see these exercises through to their end. Your line quality, also, is suffering here. It need not, however – there’s no difference between these lines, and ones drawn earlier. They are snug, and rotate, though, so there’s that.

For the organic perspective exercise, I’m pleased to see how many boxes you’ve drawn, and that you’ve drawn their back sides. Unfortunately, it would have been better to have fewer boxes, that show a clearer increase in size – here it’s a little too subtle to matter. Line quality, as always, is an issue, too.