Good job on completing your first lesson for Draw a Box. I will be reviewing your work today.

Your lines are showing a strong start with little to now wobbling, showcasing confidence over accuracy in your mark making. Your superimposed lines even show a great level of confidence, plus there is a clear starting point with only wavering on one end for your straight lines. Where a lot of your confidence seems to suffer is on your curved superimposed lines, these being a lot harder to pull off, but still regarded a mistake. You could practice on these a bit more, as curved lines will become present in lesson 2 and onwards. That confidence is transferred over into the ghosted lines and planes exercises, you are getting used to the ghosting method and relying mostly on muscle memory to mark the line you put down. I will mention the slight bending near the ends of some of your lines here, there are a result of you slowing down your pen to hit the endpoint, breaking the continuity of your mark. It is best to never slowdown as you are marking down any mark to avoid this, so keep the speed consistent through. One downside of this is the possibility of overshooting your line, and it is better than undershooting or ending up with wobbling, but to ameliorate it you can lift your pen off the page as soon as it reaches the end point of your mark.

Your ellipses are done well with confidence over accuracy. The looseness you see is normal early on and not at all a mistake, it will go away with time as the ellipses get tighter with practice. The table of ellipses exercise is done correctly, with each cell containing a set of ellipses snugged up against one another and within the bounds of the established boundaries of the cell, and a consistent angle and degree through it. Same in your ellipses in planes exercise, they are all tangent to the planes edges and oriented in the direction of it as well. There is a slight issue with the second draw through of many of your ellipses, that is that you are not finishing your second ellipse after drawing the first in most cases, ending midway without fully enclosing them. You can work on this by simply marking your ellipse for just a bit longer to fully enclose them, try drawing through two times and over shoot a little, this could help with that issue. The funnels are great, but there are a few issues that I would like to point out. The ellipses are not aligned to the minor axis of the funnel, an issue that can be worked on later in warm-ups. The exercise puts emphasis on the minor axis here, so while you practice, try to focus on aligning them as much as you can. There are also moments that the ellipses are not snugged against one another and are separated from the rest. This is simply an accuracy issue that you will improve upon.

Your boxes are good, you have a strong grasp of perspective this early on, with your weakness being rotation. I will get into that later. Nothing wrong with your plotted perspective exercise. Rough perspective has some issues with line confidence and repeating lines. It is best to simply stick with whatever line you mark down no matter how off it comes out as this will be regarded a mistake, so don’t go over them. Aside from that, the exercise is done well, your accuracy with guesses are good. They are still off from the vanishing point, but perspective that is good enough is enough to work with, so this is ok. You certainly struggled with the rotated boxes exercises. On the left side, there seems to be a common issue of not rotation your boxes, especially at the bottom where the plane has no rotation and ends up flat on the page. You can think of the bottom planes as the top planes shifted down. For your next attempt with the rotated boxes, make sure you keep the boxes closer to one another to use the neighboring boxes as clues for the one you are building next to them, and draw bigger boxes to help you tackle this spatial problem better. As the exercise states, this is to get you to think about perspective using your surroundings. This is a great attempt still, the concept is now introduced, so it is ok if the end result doesn’t turn out well. Finally, the organic perspective exercise. Almost no issues with this one, there is depth to the scene and the boxes are all shallow with not much foreshortening as instructed. Always remember to keep the initial Y’s angles greater than 90 degrees to avoid any distortion.

You did well on lesson 1 and show that you are indeed ready to tackle the 250 box challenge. (Though, apparently you have already started :p) So far, all the issues I pointed out can be worked on through warm-ups, so don’t forget to do them for 10-15 minutes for all the previously done exercises from this lesson. Congratulations on completing lesson 1, I will be marking your work as complete.