Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along decently but I'm seeing a pretty big issue here that isn't present in your other ellipse exercises and this is that you weren't drawing through your ellipses. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/11/drawingthrough For both of these pages you either weren't drawing through your ellipses at all or where only doing it 1-1/2 times at most. You seem to have corrected this with the ellipses in planes and ellipses in funnels but just as a reminder you need to draw through EVERY single ellipse you draw for all of these lessons. Even if you think you got it right the first time. Make sure you draw through the ellipse at least twice. One and half times does not count. With your ellipses in planes you are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. Your ellipses in funnels are looking fine although you also have a few ellipses here that you didn't draw through. One thing you could have done more with these is start with a narrower degree ellipse in the center and then widen the degrees of the ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel. Please check the example here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/step3 This helps with practicing different degrees of ellipses. Your ellipses are off to a good start but there's still room for improvement and remember you need to draw through EVERY ellipse you draw for all of these lessons so keep practicing them during your warmups.

The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. It's great that you are keeping up with the confident linework on these. You are also doing 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. One thing that can help you a bit when doing a one point perspective exercise like this is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be perpendicular(straight up and down in this case) to the horizon line. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.

Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty well. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. While the rotations here aren't perfect this was a good effort overall. The more you draw and develop your spatial thinking ability the easier these rotations are to handle. 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 exercises are looking pretty good. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. Your box constructions are a bit of a mixed bag. While I can see some solid constructions here where you are working out how box lines converge to vps there are also plenty of wonky constructions throughout. The 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you to keep working on this.

Overall this was a solid submission that showed a nice deal of growth. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along nicely. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. To answer your question you should always plot your points first and then ghost them. Otherwise you have no real target on the page to aim for with your ghosting. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work!