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

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are well done. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Your ghosted lines look quite good, also, but I’m worried that you might be drawing these a little too fast. Note that though drawing ‘as fast as humanly possible’ will lead you to confident lines, they will be lacking in accuracy. It’s quite possible that there’s a slower speed, that will allow you to draw confident, but still accurate lines – see if you can’t find that, instead. On the flip side, be careful not to go too far in the other direction, and become too conscious of your accuracy. Right now, you’ll occasionally wobble at the start of your line – likely because you’re taking too long to start, in an effort to not miss the starting point. But that’s not necessary! Finally, on the subject of points, don’t forget to also draw start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes. It’s easy to remember: all lines need start/end points!

Onto the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise looks quite good. Here, I think you could stand to go a little faster actually, but your ellipses aren’t bad like this, either – they’re just a little uneven sometimes. You’ve got a decent variety of them, and they’re all smooth, though not always drawn through the whole way (a full 2 times), so be mindful of that. The ellipses in planes look quite good! You’ve done a good job maintaining their prior smoothness, and they’re even more round than their predecessors, despite the more complicated frames you’ve got here – well done! The funnels, too, show some good improvement. Your ellipses here are nice and snug, and properly cut in equal symmetrical halves by their axes. They do sometimes struggle neat the edges – you’ll want to spend an extra second making sure these are lined up before committing! – but it’s a small thing. Overall, you’ve been able to pick up on your own shortcomings, and address them!

The plotted perspective exercise is well done. You should’ve used a ruler for the hatching lines, and estimated the back lines such that they’re perpendicular to the horizon, but neither are huge deals. The rough perspective exercise is well done. Your boxes are a little too stretched, but they’re convergences are nice and accurate. The linework is sometimes a little lacking (too much overshooting, so you’re either going too fast as prior, or it’s simply a case of your control being lacking), but if it’s the prior issue, we’ve discussed it, and as for the latter, that’ll take care of itself during the box challenge, so no stress. On the subject of boxes, the rotated boxes exercise looks great. It’s big, its boxes are nice and snug, and they do a great job of rotating. You do run into some issues in the back, but that’s completely normal. You’ve done well to respect the neighboring edges, despite that, rather than trying to go off on your own! Finally, fantastic work with the organic perspective exercise! You’ve got a great number of boxes here, and all of them are well constructed, and flowing as intended, thanks to their size and foreshortening (this last is perhaps a little dramatic, but it’s consistently so, so technically correct!).