Welcome to drawabox! I’m TA Benj, and I’ll be taking a look at your Lesson 1 submission today.

Starting off, your superimposed lines look mostly good. They’re smooth, and properly lined up at the start, but not always of a consistent trajectory. I’ll quickly remind you that your goal here is for your lines to be smooth, and straight, not for them to stick to their guidelines. As such, do your best not to course-correct mid-line, even if you see that you’re off. The ghosted lines/planes look great, and I’m pleased to see how ambitious the latter are. I’m also happy to see that you’ve not forgotten to plot start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes – most students do.

The table of ellipses exercise looks fantastic. There’s a lot of variety to your ellipses, and they’re all smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. With regards to their rotations, I’ll recommend sticking to a maximum of 2, from now on. In so doing, you’ll be able to more easily see your mistakes, and work on fixing them, so as to improve your ellipses even further. The ellipses in planes are looking quite solid, too – despite these more complicated frames, your ellipses here do a good job of maintaining their prior smoothness/roundness. Your funnels, too, are well done – your ellipses here are confident, as well as snug, and properly cut in half by their respective axes.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean – I appreciate the line-weight, here.

The rough perspective exercise starts off strong, and shows some solid improvement throughout the set. Still, even by the end, your line quality is a little lacking. It need not be, however! It’s easy to forget this, when you’re too caught up on the big picture, but what you’re doing here is no different from what you were doing in the ghosted lines/planes exercises: drawing lines, from point A to point B, one at a time. If they could be confident there, why not here, too? The answer is often that the student is a little overwhelmed, from looking at the big picture, and seeing a box, rather than a line, as a unit of work, but that’s incorrect, so if you see it happen again, remind yourself of this.

The rotated boxes exercise looks great. You seem to have forgotten about its reminder boxes, but what you have here rotates comfortably, so I suppose it’s no issue. Beyond that, the boxes are snug, both up front, and in the back, and you’ve been mindful of your depth lines, too, it seems. Nice work, all around.

Finally, the organic perspective exercise is, as expected, really good. You’ve got some interesting compositions here, and, save for some issues in size (the increase in size is at times a little too subtle to suggest anything), they flow quite well, as per the overall construction, as well as attention to foreshortening, of your boxes.