Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. Your ellipses in funnels are having some slight issues with tilting off the minor axis. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/notaligned This is something you should always start considering when drawing your ellipses. Your ellipses are off to a great start but there's still room for improvement when it comes to accuracy so keep practicing them during your warmups.

The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises turned out decent but you missed a crucial piece of instructions to the homework. It's great that you are keeping up with the confident linework on these. I am noticing that you are redrawing lines on occasion and this is a habit you should try and get out of. Try and stick with the initial line you put down even if it's a bit off. Adding more lines just makes things messier and harder to read. The big issue here is that you didn't extend the depth lines on your boxes to check your work. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/step6 This helps us understand how off we were with our box constructions in regards to the vanishing point. So as a revision I'd like you to finish this exercise completely and extend the depth lines as shown.

Your rotated box exercise turned out decently. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases (mainly the top and bottom) but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/notrotating Your added line weight here is a bit concerning. Added line weight should be subtle so if you do want to add it make sure you only go over a line one more time. What's happening here is you are going over a line multiple times and it's destroying your initially confident linework and just makes things messier and harder to read. Also make sure you don't revert back to using your wrist to add line weight. Obviously the rotations here are a bit tough and you are still struggling with them a bit which is perfectly fine given the difficulty. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. Once again there are some areas here where you are redrawing lines and this is a habit you need to work on. Your work will look much cleaner overall if you put down a single confident line and stick with it. You have some solid box constructions here but there are wonky ones throughout so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.

Overall this was a solid submission that showed a nice deal of growth. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along nicely. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. Before moving on to the 250 box challenge I need you to finish the rough perspective box exercises and then I'll be able to mark this as complete.