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

Starting off, your superimposed lines are well done. I’m happy to see your page filled to the brim with them, and they all appear to be smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Your ghosted lines/planes are quite confident, too, and I’m especially pleased to see that you’ve not forgotten to plot start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes, as most students do. Do try to be less conscious of them, though, if you can. I notice that you’ll sometimes curve as you approach your end point, which is not something we like to see. It speaks to your brain’s involvement in the act of drawing, of which there should be none! – we’re just relying on our muscles, executing the motion that was built up during ghosting.

Onto the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise is well done. Your ellipses here are smooth, rounded, and mostly properly drawn through. I say mostly because you’ll sometimes stop short of the minimum 2 rotations, and settle for 1 and change. Try to hit that minimum please. Beyond that, however, and the occasional bumpy ellipse (same advice as prior – limit involvement of your brain), this section is well done. The ellipses in planes, too, do a good job of maintaining that same degree of confidence. I notice here that you’ve paid some attention to their position in space, too, which is not required at this stage, but great to see. Keep that up! Finally, the funnels are well done. Do be careful, however, that no ellipse is lacking a (visible) minor axis. This is to say, if the straight line of your funnels doesn’t extend far enough to justify another ellipse, either don’t add one, or extend it in a separate stroke, then add it.

For the box section, the plotted perspective exercise looks good, though I see that you’ve drawn your hatching lines freehand (you should’ve used a ruler for this particular exercise), and sometimes applied them to the wrong plane (this is not a huge issue right now, so no stress.) The rough perspective exercise is strong throughout its length. I’d perhaps make the boxes themselves a little bigger (easier on the brain, as well as the arm!), but beyond that, their lines are confidently drawn, and their convergences on-point. Your rotated boxes exercise looks clean. You’ve done well to see it through to the end, despite having somewhat lost track of what each box is supposed to do near it, and that your work is nice and clean despite that is quite the achievement. Your organic perspective boxes, too, show a lot of promise. They’re well constructed, and their increase in size, and consistent shallow foreshortening make it so that they flow quite well.