Congrats on completing Lesson 1 :) I’ll be taking a look at your submission.
Starting off with Lines. Your superimposed show overall confidence. There's fraying and minor wobble present, but this will get better over time. You continue to show confidence in both ghosted line and planes. You do miss your mark from time to time, but this will improve with practice. Nice work.
Moving on to Ellipses. Your tables of ellipses are looking good. They're drawn through confidently, and show good effort in varying degrees and sizes while also staying within the bounds of the table and other ellipses. The same can be said for your ellipses in planes. There's some inaccurate ellipses, but these are something that'll only get better over time. Your ellipses in funnels came out well overall. As you're doing a good job maintaining alignment, I would recommend integrating this optional step https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3 as practice when using this exercise as a warmup.
Next up are Boxes. Your plotted perspective looks good. Your rough perspective shows an overall understanding of the exercise. There's some wobbling creeping in here. I think it's mostly as a result of concerns with accuracy since we're working with boxes now. You did improve later on, but I just wanted to reiterate that confidence is key.
Rotated Boxes. You did quite well with this one! Nice job with keeping it close, and actually capturing the rotations. There are issues with the inner faces being messy, and your lines getting confused in the more perplexing areas like the lower left and right hand corners. Overall though, I think you did well. We'll learn how to better capture rotations in the box challenge.
Organic perspective. Your organic perspective looks good. You showed understanding of what the exercise was trying to convey. Your linework improved as well. Some boxes look wonky, but this is to be expected. The box challenge will teach us how to better capture the shape of a box.
Overall: Good submission. You showed growth in terms of linework, and have confidence in drawing ellipses. There's always room for improvement, so continue integrating these exercises into your warmups. I believe you understand what these exercises are conveying, and are ready to move on to the box challenge.
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 box challenge.
I'd been drawing as a hobby for a solid 10 years at least before I finally had the concept of composition explained to me by a friend.
Unlike the spatial reasoning we delve into here, where it's all about understanding the relationships between things in three dimensions, composition is all about understanding what you're drawing as it exists in two dimensions. It's about the silhouettes that are used to represent objects, without concern for what those objects are. It's all just shapes, how those shapes balance against one another, and how their arrangement encourages the viewer's eye to follow a specific path. When it comes to illustration, composition is extremely important, and coming to understand it fundamentally changed how I approached my own work.
Marcos Mateu-Mestre's Framed Ink is among the best books out there on explaining composition, and how to think through the way in which you lay out your work.
Illustration is, at its core, storytelling, and understanding composition will arm you with the tools you'll need to tell stories that occur across a span of time, within the confines of a single frame.
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