Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on completing Lesson 1. Let’s take a look at it, shall we?

Starting off, your superimposed lines look mostly good. I say mostly because, though they’re smooth, and properly lined up at the start, they’re not of a consistent trajectory. Be careful that you don’t give your brain the opportunity (or the time! – one approach to fixing this problem might be to draw a little faster) to course-correct mid-line. Your ghosted lines/planes look generally solid, but I notice a little hesitation near their ends. Likely, you’re slowing down as you approach your end points, in an effort to not overshoot, but that’s not necessary. Particularly if it’s causing your line to become wobbly. Our priority lies not in the accuracy of our lines, but rather their confidence. Also, a tiny comment regarding start/end points: are you plotting any for the non-diagonal center lines of the planes? If you’re not, please do.

The table of ellipses exercise is well done. There’s not a great deal of variety to them (their degrees and angles), but they’re smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. The table of ellipses exercise looks quite solid, also. Despite these more complicated frames, your ellipses do a solid job of maintaining their prior smoothness/roundness. Finally, the funnels look good, though, judging from how dark your lines are here, you’re likely pressing down a lot harder than you mean to (students usually do this when they’re stressed), so see if you can relax a little. Small point regarding your funnels: make sure that the minor axes extend the entire way through them. Otherwise, as is sometimes the case here, the ellipses on the edge won’t be aligned to anything, rendering them essentially useless to our improvement.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

The rough perspective exercise is a little, well, rough. Starting from the mostly-good, the lines make an effort to converge, albeit not a super successful one. I’ll remind you that you’re not obligated to stick to your first guess, here. In fact, after plotting a point, you’re encouraged to check it (by ghosting to it, and beyond it, to the horizon), and alter it. The second issue is the linework. Though it being in some ways lesser here is not uncommon, it is unnecessary. After all, though the big picture may be different, what you’re doing here (drawing a single line, from point A to point B), is no different from what you were doing in the ghosted lines exercise. If your lines could be confident there, why not here? Don’t let yourself get overwhelmed by the big picture. P.S. Lineweight is unnecessary, here, too, and do be mindful that you don’t use that as an excuse to correct an incorrect line.

The rotated boxes exercise looks good, if a little small. Drawing big is something we heavily encourage, as it’s effective in giving your brain some room to think. Still, your boxes here are snug, and properly rotating. Their back sides aren’t so lucky – they’re often flat, and they don’t always respect their neighbors – but this is entirely expected, and something we’ll work on in the box challenge.

Speaking of boxes, the organic perspective exercise is a little mixed. I’ll bring up something I said before, here, about not redrawing a line, in an effort to ‘correct’ a mistake? For starters, that doesn’t really correct your mistakes – just makes them easier to spot. More than that, however, thick lines have a way of demanding our attention. Though this is all well and good, if we intend for it to happen, in this exercise, applying that sort of weight to the boxes in the back means that they pop to the front, thus contradicting what their size is saying. As such, it’s best left off entirely.