Congrats on finishing lesson 1!
You did a pretty good job overall and I can see you improved in some areas by the end. For your super-imposed lines I can see that for the most part your lines are pretty straight and there isn't too much wobble. Your ghosted lines look pretty good too, though I can see some wobble in a few of them. It looks like by the end of your planes homework there is a lot less wobble though. Your planes look pretty well constructed with most of your lines looking smooth and confidently made.
Your tables of ellipses look good. You drew through your ellipses correctly and I can see you put some care into placing them snugly inside the alloted space. There is some wobbling to a few of your ellipses, so make sure you are ghosting out your ellipses and drawing them from the shoulder the same way you do your straight lines. Just remember that the confidence of the stroke is far and away your top priority. Accuracy is something that you will improve on as you continue working through Drawabox and practice ghosting more. You did really well with your ellipses in planes. I see less wobble overall and your ellipses maintain a nice round, confident shape. The same can be said about your funnel with the only issue I see here is some tilting along the minor axis. One thing you can do to fix that is to rotate your page to line up your ellipses correctly.
In your rough perspective homework you placed your boxes fairly well. Your horizontal lines stay largely parallel to the horizon and your vertical lines are fairly perpendicular. Your boxes do a pretty good job of converge towards your plotted vanishing point too! I can see that you added some additional weight to your boxes here. When you go to add weight to a line it is important that you treat the added weight the same way you would a brand new line. That means taking your time to plan and ghost through your mark so that when you go to execute it the mark blends seamlessly with your previous mark. This will allow you to build and create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines. Other than that your boxes are pretty well constructed with most of your lines looking smooth and confident.
The rotated boxes exercise is a pretty challenging and complex exercise and it looks like you did a pretty good job for your first attempt. I can see that you got a lot of good rotation in your boxes along the major axes and your construction is pretty consistent for most of your boxes. You did a good job keeping the gaps between your boxes narrow and consistent too. Apart from a few of your corner boxes not following your gaps you did well on this exercise.
You have a good start with your organic perspective boxes. Your did alright getting your sets of lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing point, this is something you will work on more in the next steps. Keep in mind as you progress through Drawabox and begin to construct more complex forms that it is important to put in the time and focus required to execute each line correctly and to apply the ghosting method to every step of the process, as explained here. You should also frequently refer back to the instructions to ensure you are doing everything correctly and to the best of your current ability.
Keep in mind what I have said here and you should continue to see improvement as you incorporate these exercises into your warm ups.
Next Steps:
Continue to the 250 Box Challenge!
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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