Hey there, I'm Meta and I'll be your TA today, I'll address your questions before we get started.

On the first question, thinking about the line you put on the page happens mainly before the ghosting action. While you're ghosting, you may find that that projected line is not quite what you wanted, which is when you stop and adjust the dots and ghost again. How many times you need to ghost for that line isn't really that important, 1-3 times is fine as long as you're confident in the line you want to put down.

Regarding the second question, you should be aiming to apply the concepts as Drawabox presents/teaches them. A little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing here and you shouldn't it to steer you astray. For me, personally, I'd drawn for about 10 years before I started Drawabox and had a lot of pre-conceptions about what I already knew, but once I learned to trust the process (somewhere around the box challenge), a lot of things I'd previously learned started to make a lot more sense.

If you've got questions as you're progressing through the exercises, feel free to join us on the Discord server. People are more than happy to help and we've got a great community.

Lines

Starting with your superimposed lines, you're doing a great job lining your pen up with the starting point and executing your lines confidently. This confidence flows through to your ghosted lines and planes and to be honest, I'm not seeing the issue mentioned in your post with overthinking the lines/messing it up. Accuracy is a result of time and practice, so you'll get there. I did notice a little squiggle over an incorrect line on the planes though - try not to do this, it draws more attention to the error than if you had simply worked with it. This approach becomes more and more important as you progress through the course as doing so could undermine the solidity of your forms.

Ellipses

Onto your tables of ellipses and these are off to a great start. Your linework is pretty confident here, you've selected a good variety of shapes and sizes of ellipses to practice, and you've kept them squeezed up tight against each other.

Next your ellipses in planes are looking good, you've done a pretty good job hitting the four sides of the plane each time while remaining confident and not over-focusing on accuracy.

Finally, you've done a good job aligning your ellipses to the minor axis for the most part on your funnels. There's a few spots where they're skewed off a bit, particularly to the outer edges of the funnel - this is pretty common. If you'd like to push this exercise further in your warmups, you could try increasing the degree of the ellipses as you move out from the centre similar to shown in the example homework

Boxes

A quick note on your plotted perspective - you may have noticed some of the back lines of your boxes are not vertical - this can happen when there's slight inaccuracies in the lines used to plot the front of the box not going back to the exact vanishing point drawn. Something to keep in mind, as you will encounter this again.

Onto your rough perspective and you've made fairly successful efforts to keep the horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line. You've correctly applied the line extensions and your perspective lands in a really tight margin of error.

Your rotated boxes are looking pretty good - you're keeping the gaps between the boxes tight and consistent, which has given you good cues about where to place the next one and you've captured a pretty respectable range of rotation. Any degree of success here is commendable as it is intended as an introduction to certain concepts that are explored further in the box challenge.

Finally, your organic perspective is off to a good start, you've got a fair amount of difference between the smallest and largest boxes and the overlapping helps sell the illusion of depth. There's a bit of divergence in the boxes themselves but that's again, a job for the box challenge to iron out as it requests students utilise the Y method for their boxes.

All in all, this was a really solid submission, so I hope you can move forward with a bit more confidence in yourself.