Hi desert vixen, I'll be going over your work today so let's get started.

I can tell you right now that you won't be needing an re-dos for this lesson. We don't expect students to do things to any degree of excellence, but rather show they understand the core principles and they can continue to work on their own to build up these skills. This is where drawabox differs from more normal education methods where you are graded based on execution. I am glad that you pushed through instead of grinding since that is what we instruct students to do after all! Ok, let's get to it.

Your super imposed lines are off to a good start. They are confident and prioritizing flow over accuracy. The longer lines are arcing indicating less shoulder and more elbow action, but with practice you will get more used to driving the motion primarily from your shoulder. Your ghosted lines are looking very crisp and confident and already an improvement in using your shoulder, so good job.

Moving on to your ellipses, you are doing a good job drawing through them the appropriate number of times. Your confidence on them is still developing and manifests in wobbly, overly careful lines lacking the smooth flow of your straight lines. This is understandable as learning to draw ellipses is much more difficult and just takes more practice. Your ellipses in planes are making good contact with the points of the edges to make them sit snugly within the bounds, but watch out for flat regions in your ellipses - make sure you are drawing these ellipses with a smooth, continuous motion from the shoulder. Your ellipse smoothnessss is better in your tables exercise and you are doing a good job keeping things packed tightly to avoid ambiguity as well as keeping orientations and sizes uniform within each row of the table. With your funnels exercise you are struggling to balance everything required in this one, which is totally normal. The main thing to watch out for here is to make sure your minor axis remain aligned to your funnel axes as there are quite a bit of occurrences of skew here.

Moving on to your rough perspective, you are doing a good job showing that you understand the key concept here which is orienting your boxes in 1 point perspective correctly. You have done this by keeping your horizontal lines parallel to the horizon and verticals perpendicular. Of course there are more than a few boxes that are skewed from not keeping your horizontal lines parallel to the horizon, but by-and-large you are showing you know how things should be (execution is a whole different thing). One thing I am noticing a lot of is redrawing your lines, which is a bad habit you should stop before it sets in further. This is bad for a few reasons:

• It undermines why we use ink in the first place - to respect line economy and to force us to plan our lines carefully (including ghosting).

• It adds visual clutter and draws more attention to the things you were trying to fix in the first place

Your converging lines are right where we expect for a student and you have correctly applied your line extensions to show where you were off. Things like targeting far-off points is a skill that comes with deliberate practice and you'll get a lot of it in the box challenge, so no worries for now.

Moving on to your rotated boxes you have done a lot of things right here, and some not so right. Your lines, when executed in a single stroke, are looking more confident but you still have quite a bit of redrawing here. In terms of the mechanics of your exercise, you are not rotating your boxes but rather skewing them over so give this gif some more attention and study how the rotation is driven by how the vanishing points move along the axis. Additionally, your boxes are very far apart so you cannot leverage adjacent lines as perspective guides. Read that section again and make sure you understand it because using adjacent lines is an important skill to have in your arsenal. Overall though our only goal for students here is to try their best and finish the exercise which you did. This is because the only thing that matters is showing you how many types of spatial problems there can be and how there are many tools to go about solving these problems. You pushed through and didn't grind the exercise so good on you!

Finally let's look at your organic perspective. You did a good job pushing the illusion of depth on your page by scaling your boxes down as they recede into the background. I would have liked more boxes in the frames for two reasons:

1. It's more practice/mileage

2. If you have more forms you can overlap them which causes the brain to perceive everything as a unified space which further pushes the illusion of 3d space on your 2d sheet of paper.

Your perspective here is coming along. There is still a lot of divergence happening where your near planes are smaller than your far planes, but that will get worked on in the next step.

Speaking of next steps, your lesson 1 will now be marked as complete and your next step is the 250 box challenge. Make sure you read all of the instructions as a lot of students lately have been having to do more boxes for missing key points. Keep working on your line confidence and ellipses in warm ups and keep up the good work.