Greetings, Plainquaido! I'm Keisari, and I'll be the one critiquing your Lesson 1 submission today. Before getting into it, great job on finishing Lesson 1! The hardest parts may be still to come, but you've kickstarted your journey and ventured further than many.
Lines
Your lines, and really mark-making in general, look great. They look confident and smooth, show little to no signs of arching nor hesitation, and I can't find a single instance of you repeating any of them. You're doing an amazing job engaging your shoulder and prioritizing confidence over accuracy, although they still undershoot here and there. I praise you for your work here.
Ellipses
Like your lines, your ellipses are also remarkably good. You're drawing through them 2-3 times, with very few instances of bypassing that threshold. They look incredibly smooth and confident, only looking slightly deformed in infrequent occasions. I have nothing to add, although something I'd suggest for your future warmups is practicing smaller ellipses in your Tables of Ellipses, filling the space between the bigger ones.
Boxes
Following the trend set by your work in the previous sections of this lesson, your boxes look excellent. Your line quality seems to have suffered a bit, but that's normal. You've demonstrated a great understanding of everything that's presented in this lesson and I really have little to nothing to say. One thing you seem to have missed, however, is that the further the boxes in Rotated Boxes are, the greater the space to neighboring boxes should be, and you're not quite pushing that enough. That's quite nitpicky however, and you'll have tons of time to work on that and everything else with your next step here at Drawabox -- the 250 Box Challenge! Don't forget your warmups.
Next Steps:
The 250 Box Challenge.
Some of you will have noticed that Drawabox doesn't teach shading at all. Rather, we focus on the understanding of the spatial relationships between the form we're drawing, which feeds into how one might go about applying shading. When it comes time to learn about shading though, you're going to want to learn it from Steven Zapata, hands down.
Take a look at his portfolio, and you'll immediately see why.
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