Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on completing Lesson 1. I’ll be taking a look at it for you.

Your superimposed lines show a good start. I suspect that you’re either drawing these with your shoulder too fast, or your elbow – experiment to find out which! – but they’re nicely confident, so that they go off-trajectory a little too quickly is not a huge deal. Your superimposed lines look mostly confident, too. I say mostly because the non-diagonal center lines of your planes have a habit of curving a little at the end. Seeing how you’ve not actually plotted start/end points for those lines, that makes sense. Please do. Recall that every mark you make needs start/end points.

The table of ellipses exercise is well done. You’ve a light hand, which is good, but I’d recommend trying to draw a little slower, so you can be more conscious of the marks you make. For instance, your ellipses won’t always hit the minimum 2 rotations we recommend (instead settling for 1 and change). By the way, try not to make your frames too small. The first row in page 1 is a good height, I feel. The ellipses in planes are well done. It’s clear that confidence, not accuracy, is your main priority here, but I think if you were to spend a little longer ghosting each ellipse you’d find it to be more accurate, without necessarily losing any of its confidence. The funnels are a little rough, but I blame the little space you had, here. Drawing any mark – especially a complicated one like an ellipse – is a little hard from the shoulder. Actually, that was my reasoning behind recommending you draw a little bigger, earlier. So I won’t fault you for these, but I will recommend being a little more mindful of your degrees, if nothing else. Save for the occasional exception, you’ve kept these to full circles, but ideally we’d draw them as ellipses (and ideally ideally, increase their degrees as they move away from the center).

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean – well done. The rough perspective exercise starts off quite rough, but shows some nice improvement throughout the set. That said, while your convergences are looking good by that point, the linework is not. I’ll mention that, really, there’s no reason for this. The lines add up to a bigger picture (a box), sure, but you draw them one by one, by carefully ghosting them, as you did in the ghosted lines exercise. If they could be confident there, why not here too, you know? Try not to let the big picture overwhelm you – they’re just lines. Solid attempt at the rotated boxes exercise. Save for the aforementioned confidence issues, the boxes are well constructed, snug, and properly rotating. You’ve run into some confusion in the back, it seems (some of the boxes don’t even have backsides, I notice), but what you have drawn, you’ve drawn well, and what you haven’t, we’ll get into in the box challenge, anyway. Still, try to see each exercise through to the end. The fact that you’ve added hatching but not drawn backsides is a little suspicious to me. Finally, good work on the organic perspective exercise. You’ve got some interesting compositions here, which flow well because of your many overlaps, and the size and foreshortening of your boxes. Good work!