Hello Meandrathel!
Overall, you have done a nice job.
Lines:
Your lines demonstrate confidence with smooth and consistent strokes. Occasionally, they arc or waver a little as you draw the line to its target. Just to note, it's ok to be a little off on accuracy. A confident line that is slightly inaccurate is better than an accurate line that wobbles, wavers, or arcs. As you continue to practice your lines, start thinking about the different levels of successful lines.
Ellipses:
You’re off to a good start; the ellipses are generally smooth and confident. Occasionally, they wobble and sometimes lose its roundedness as you fit the ellipse into the allotted space. Continue to prioritize developing smooth, confident strokes with your shoulder. Then start to work on maintaining its roundedness, and then accuracy. The ellipses along the funnels’ minor axis are generally aligned. Great job drawing through your ellipses appropriately, about 2-3 times (though there are some exceptions here and there).
Boxes:
As you continue on to your boxes, I notice your lines are still mostly confident. There are repeated, corrected lines. No matter how tempting it is to correct a line, do not repeat over it to correct it. If/when applying line weight, apply the same ghosting techniques and draw through with your shoulder to maintain a confident line (just as with superimposed lines).
Rough perspective:
You’ve done a fairly decent job maintaining horizontal lines to be parallel to the horizon line, and vertical lines are perpendicular to it. There are a couple of these lines that stray off slightly diagonally but not too bad.
Rotating boxes:
Kudos on getting through this exercise! The boxes are rotating along the horizontal and vertical axes, so nice job. The boxes are pretty well neighbored to each other and are drawn through, so nice job.
Organic perspective:
As the boxes get gradually smaller on the path, they effectively depict they appear to be further away from the viewer. There are some boxes’ set of parallel lines that diverge away, where the farther planes of the box appear to get larger and make the perspective feel off. No worries though; you will get to work on these more in the 250 box challenge.
With that, congratulations on completing Lesson 1!
Next Steps:
Continue to use these exercises as part of your warm ups (about 10-15 minutes)
Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge
Don’t forget to take breaks and draw for fun!
Also, now that you’ve completed Lesson 1, I encourage you to critique some Lesson 1 community submissions. Not only will this help the community, but it will also solidify and help reinforce your understanding of the material. If you’d be willing to help, a guide was created by one of our community members on how to go about critiquing Lesson 1 here: https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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