Hello, and welcome to drawabox. First things first, no worries in regards to the out-of-order images, though do be aware that you are able to change their order in post. It’s not much of a problem here, but you might want to do it for your box challenge submission, should that be out of order too, to make it a little easier on the TA. Second, I notice that there’s an exercise you’ve attempted twice. This is not recommended. We’re not looking for a ‘good’ attempt. We’re looking for your first attempt- ideally one seen through to the end. Anyway, with those out of the way, let’s take a look at this submission.

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are well done. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. I do wish you’d experimented with a bunch of different lengths, however, as recommended in the text, rather than sticking to just one. The same can be said for your ghosted lines, too, though they do, at the very least, look smooth. Your planes look quite confident, too, though be sure to plot some start/end points for their non-diagonal center lines too. All lines need these, because all lines are drawn using the ghosting method.

The table of ellipses exercise looks solid. If I had to think of a suggestion, it would be to be a little more mindful of the roundness of your ellipses, as well as your ‘jumping off’ point. What I mean by that last one, is to be careful that, at the end of your rotations, you lift your pen off the page, rather than flicking it off, as a way to not have its trajectory change dramatically, as it sometimes does here. It’s fairly minor, though. The ellipses in planes exercise looks good, too. Your ellipses maintain their smoothness/roundness, despite the more complicated frame (which, by the way, they do a good job of fitting inside of.) Finally, the funnels are nicely done, too. Your ellipses there are snug, and properly cut in half by their respective axes.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean- nicely done.

The rough perspective exercise suffers from a lack of planning, unfortunately. Let me first quickly confirm that you didn’t misunderstand the instructions, though. The goal is to plot a point, check it, and alter it, until you feel like it’s good enough to commit to, not to stick to your first one. I say this because I don’t see many unused points on the page. If the mistake lies there, then it’s no wonder that your first guesses aren’t quite right. On the other hand, if this is what they look like despite trying multiple times, then you might need to look into the way in which you check whether they’re correct. What I like to do is to slowly ghost each line to its end point, and beyond, all the way to the horizon, to see where it intersects it. I do this after plotting my first point, however, so I have a way to give myself specific instructions (i.e. ‘further down’, or ‘further to the left’, rather than ‘more this way.’)

The rotated boxes exercise… actually doesn’t look too different in your second attempt… And anyway, as mentioned in the instructions, this is a hard exercise, that’s meant to introduce you to the idea of rotating boxes in space; not, at all, something you should expect yourself to be able to do right now. What you should be aiming for, really, is to complete each exercise, to the best of your ability, so that I may have a clear idea of what you understand, and don’t understand, and give you accurate feedback. Rather than getting it right, the goal is in fact to get it wrong. That’s how you’ll improve. On that topic, there’s a number of issues here. First. The boxes haven’t been drawn through. This makes keeping them together difficult, too, because you’ve no back lines to use as neighboring edges. This is not uncommon, with an exercise as overwhelming as this, but that’s exactly why it’s important to take your time, and remember that all this is is a bunch of lines, that you tackle one at a time- really, no different from a ghosted lines, or ghosted planes exercise. Anyway, don’t stress. The next time you do, you’ll have the benefit of having completed part of the box challenge, and you’ll find much useful there, to aid you here.

Finally, the organic perspective exercise is a little weak. Firstly, the line quality is a little lacking. Your lines here are wobbly, though there’s no reason for this. Here, too, remember that all you’re doing is drawing a single line, from point A to point B; no differently from how you did it in the ghosted lines exercise. If your lines could be confident there, they can be confident here, too. Though, what is likely the issue here, is that you’re drawing arbitrary lines, rather than plotting points, ghosting between them, and executing. That lack of planning is what’s reflected in the quality of your lines. Remember that the ghosting method is to be used on every single mark that you make, until the end of the course. Second, you need to draw through your boxes. That is to say, a box that’s overlapping another, should not hide its lines. Not only does this happen, but often, boxes that are smaller (meaning, further back), are, as per the overlaps, on top of ones that are bigger (meaning, closer to us.) This runs counter to the illusion we’re trying to push. As does the foreshortening of these boxes, which is a little dramatic.

Before I have you move on to the box challenge, I’d like to see a few things: