Hello; welcome to drawabox! I’ll be looking through your lesson 1 submission today~

Starting off, your superimposed lines are looking good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Occasionally, you’ll have an arcing line be a little insecure, so I’ll quickly remind you that it’s far more important for it to be confident, than for it to stick to the guideline, but it doesn’t happen all too often, so no worries. The ghosted/lines planes look confident for most of their length, though they fall apart at the end. Similar logic here. Them being smooth, and straight, is more important than them stopping at the correct point. On that topic, remember that start/end points are needed for every line you draw, including and especially the non-diagonal center lines of the planes.

The table of ellipses exercise improves over the set, but, even by the end, your ellipses have a habit of starting off a little wobbly, and stabilizing in their second rotation. This can mean 2 things. 1. You’re not ghosting enough. As such, you’re committing to a line before you’re ready, and hesitating. 2. You’re being too conscious of the transition between ghosting and drawing, seeing them as 2 separate processes. In reality, there’s no difference between them- you’re continuing the same motion, and simply lowering your pen to the page. Be careful, also, that your ellipses are circular. Some of these strain a little too hard to hit the edges of the frame, but that, that is to say, accuracy, is not our goal; confidence is. Finally, see if you can lift, rather than flick your pen off the page at the end of your rotations- it’ll get rid of those tails. The ellipses in planes exercise has a lot of these same issues. Here, it’s especially important to maintain the roundness of your ellipses. Our frames will be getting more and more complicated as time goes on, and it’s good to know where your priorities lie. Save for these issues, the first of which (ellipses being wobbly) is especially bad here, the funnels exercise looks okay. Your ellipses are snug, and mostly cut in half by the minor axis (not all of them are, however, so be sure to properly ghost each one, not forgetting to rotate your page as needed.)

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean- nicely done.

For the rough perspective exercise, it seems like you used a ruler for the front faces of your boxes. This is incorrect, but not a huge deal. Your linework is mostly confident, but at times a little wobbly. There’s no reason for it to be, however. What you’re doing here, that is to say, drawing lines, one at a time, is no different from what you did in the ghosted lines/planes exercise. What they’re adding up to has changed, certainly, but the process of drawing a line hasn’t, so there’s no reason for a dip in quality. Be careful, also, to only draw each line once. Automatic reinforcing is a bad habit. As for your convergences, these are not great. I don’t see too many points on the page, so I’d expect this to be as a result of a lack of planning, or a misunderstanding that you’re supposed to stick to your original guesses (you’re not.) Check, and re-check each point (by ghosting it to the horizon, to see where it intersects it) until you’re satisfied with it, then commit to it- no sooner. Also, when you’re done with a page, and have drawn the correction lines, spend some time actually looking at them. Identify your issues, and come up with a plan to rectify them.

Solid attempt at the rotated boxes exercise. Your boxes are, save from the outer layer on the right side, snug, and, though it’s slight, they do rotate, too. Their far planes look quite good, too, though they’ll get even better as you progress through the box challenge. For now, my one recommendation for you is to take your time on this, carefully considering each line: how it behaves, and why, and you’ll perform even better next time.

Finally, save for some issues that we’ve covered in earlier parts of this critique, the organic perspective exercise looks fantastic. You’ve got some interesting compositions, here. Your boxes properly follow the flow line, increasing in size, but maintaining a consistent, shallow foreshortening as they do. This does a good job of suggesting their flow. Some extreme scale, and some overlaps, clarified through lineweight, would’ve taken them to the next level, but that’s alright.

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