I hope it did… I don’t want to click 16 different lin- YES! Ehem. Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on completing Lesson 1. I’ll be taking a look at it for you.

Starting with your superimposed lines, these look solid. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. The ghosted lines/planes look quite confident, also – I especially like the taper at the end of them, really dynamic. That said, you’ll often pull out a little early. I suppose it’s good that you did – it told me that you’re not plotting start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes (please do!) – but it’s something you’ll want to work on, for sure.

The table of ellipses exercise looks good. Your ellipses are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through, if a little lacking in variety (degrees, especially – it’s the same 3 repeating over and over, it seems). You should be employing a similar strategy here as in the lines section, by the way: lifting, not flicking, your pen off the page – it’ll get rid of those tails at the end of your ellipses. The ellipses in planes look great. Despite these more complicated frames, they do a good job of maintaining their prior smoothness/roundness. The funnels, too, are well done, though now that you’ve done things the easy way, consider increasing the degree of your ellipses, as they move away from the center.

Moving on to the box section, I notice a lot of empty space on your pages, here – did the margins have to be that big? Anyway, the plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

The rough perspective exercise starts off a little lacking, but improves nicely by its last frame. One thing you may consider paying attention to is the shape of your planes. Since we’re dealing with 1-point perspective, we know that the far plane needs to be identical in shape to the front plane (only smaller). As such, if our points indicate otherwise, we know that there’s been a mistake somewhere. An example of this is page 2, frame 3, the box on the bottom left; its front face is a square, its back face a horizontal rectangle. Consider what its correction lines are telling you about how the back face should’ve looked.

The rotated boxes exercise is missing 4 boxes (the diagonal ones), but it looks good otherwise. It’s big, its boxes are snug (though you have forgotten to draw through 3 of them), and they rotate quite comfortably. You’ve also paid close attention to the far planes, and depth lines, but these are not things we expect our students to get right at this stage, anyway, so it wouldn’t have been an issue regardless; still, you’re in a good position to succeed in the box challenge.

Speaking of boxes, the organic perspective exercise shows a little misunderstanding. A box that’s overlapping another should not hide its lines. It would, normally, but here we’re more interested in learning, than being accurate to life, so we draw through our forms. Other than that, however, the exercise looks solid. Your boxes flow well, as per their size, and foreshortening, and look quite solid, too. I do find myself wondering if you’ve plotted start/end points for their lines, however – it doesn’t seem like you have.