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

Starting from your superimposed lines, these are looking good; they’re smooth, and properly lined up at the start, but not always of a consistent trajectory. Remember that, it’s confidence, not accuracy, that we’re most concerned with, here, so it’s better for your lines to be smooth, and straight, than it is for them to stick to the guideline. So!, try to resist the urge to course-correct mid-line. Also, though I’m pleased to see that you’ve also drawn some arcing lines, see if you can make them a little bigger, next time. Generally, the smaller a mark, the harder it is to draw it from the shoulder. As such, we try to draw big, whenever we can. Moving on, your ghosted lines/planes are generally well done. Two things, however. First, see if you can make your start/end points a little smaller. The idea is that a perfect line should swallow them both. Second, try to be a little conscious of said points. Right now, it seems as if you’re slowing down, as you’re approaching your end point, in an effort to not stop short of it, or overshot. That, too, however, is putting accuracy above confidence, which is not something we encourage.

The table of ellipses exercise is mostly well done. Your ellipses are, at times, a little insecure – so certainly take a little more time to ghost them, and execute confidently when you do – but you do seem to be trying for confidence, each time, so it’s not a problem. That said, do make an effort to have most of your ellipses be in the 40-90 degree range. Currently, you’ve mostly stuck to the thinner ones, which, though good to practice, tend to be on the easier side. The ellipses in planes has a few more instances (than I’m comfortable with) of you prioritizing accuracy, over confidence (what with those of them that deform to hit all 4 sides of the plane), but I’ll assume that this, too, is the exception, rather than the rule, and not hammer the point home. The funnels are well done. There’s the occasional insecure ellipse, but this is likely due to its size (the smaller a mark, the harder it is to draw from the shoulder), so it’s no cause for concern. Do spend a little longer ghosting these, however, just to be safe; and the ones at the very edges of the funnel, too, since those are more often than not a little misaligned. The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

The rough perspective exercise shows some nice improvement throughout the set, but more so in terms of its convergences, than line-work. The latter is, even by then, a little wobbly. There’s no reason for this, however. I certainly understand – it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the big picture – but there’s, as far as the way in which they’re drawn, actually no difference between these lines, and the ones in the ghosted lines exercise. To put it another way, if those could be different, these, too, can.

The rotated boxes exercise looks good. You seem to have forgotten about the reminder boxes (one of the very first steps), but yours rotate comfortably, nonetheless. They’re also snug, and you’ve paid special attention to their far planes, and depth lines – well done. Line-work is, here, too, an issue, but as we’ve already addressed it, I won’t harp on it beyond that.

Finally, the organic perspective exercise is well done. I do wonder, however, if you’ve properly plotted points for all of your lines, here. It seems to me as if you’ve extended your lines arbitrarily, and simply extended the ones that stopped short in a different stroke (both of those things are a no-no, if you’re wondering). Beyond that, however, the boxes are well constructed, and flow quite well, too, as a result of their size, and foreshortening.