Hello, and welcome to drawabox. I’ll be taking a look at your lesson 1 submission today.

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking very good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. The ghosted lines/planes look quite solid, also, and I’m pleased to see that the overshooting issue has improved by the end of the submission.

Moving on to the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise is… missing. I’ll need to see that before I move you on. The ellipses in planes exercise is a little mixed. The main issue is that your ellipses are at times a little wobbly, and bumpy. This usually happens when a student prioritizes accuracy (this is to say, whether the ellipse fits snuggly into the frame, and its rotations are tight, as opposed to far apart) more than confidence, though this is incorrect. In this course, we’re mostly concerned with the latter. In other words, an ellipse that is smooth, and rounded, but not particularly accurate is correct. One that is accurate, at the cost of its confidence, is not. Still, you’re heading in the right direction, as evidenced by your funnels. Your ellipses here are mostly smooth, and what spacing issues exist are not a particularly big concern of ours. The alignment ones are, however, as that demonstrates a lack of planning, specifically.

The plotted perspective exercise looks good.

The rough perspective exercise looks quite nice, too. (I’m assuming that the pages are in the wrong order, and you did not, in fact, get worse over time.) One thing that I’ll draw your attention to is the linework. For the line to come out right, you need to put some effort into your planning, this is to say, the steps that you take before you draw. Things like checking whether the point heads in the correct direction, in the horizon, or that a line between 2 points forms a line that’s parallel/perpendicular to the horizon. After a line is draw, you should leave it be, however it has turned out. In other words, you should not correct an incorrect line, by redrawing it.

The rotated boxes exercise looks solid. It’s a little smaller than we’d like, but the boxes are snug, and rotate quite nicely as a result. You’ve also been mindful of their fair planes, and depth lines, so the boxes themselves look quite good. (Inexplicably, one of your outer boxes is missing, but let’s not worry about that I suppose.)

Finally, the organic perspective exercise looks good. I’m happy to see so much planning here, in the form of unused points. There’s a few too many boxes, perhaps, but it’s been good practice, so that’s fine. What’s here flows well, as per their size and foreshortening, and the only issue I notice is the minor one of the occasionally redrawn line.