Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on completing Lesson 1. I’m TA Benj, and I’ll be taking a look at it for you.

Starting off, your superimposed lines look good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. I appreciate that you’ve tried out some arcing lines, too! See if you can’t draw them a little bigger next time though, to make things a little easier on yourself. The ghosted lines look quite confident, too, if a little unambitious, and the ghosted planes maintain that same confidence, as well. I notice, however, that you’ve not plotted start/end points for their non-diagonal center lines. Please do, moving forward.

The table of ellipses exercise is well done. Your ellipses are smooth and rounded, though a little lacking in variety (it’s mostly the same 3 degrees, repeated). Also, the tails at the end are easily avoidable if you lift, rather than flick your pen off the page at the end of your rotations, so see if you can’t try that. On the subject of rotations, the ellipses in planes have been rotated around too much. Remember that our suggestion is 2-3 times. This should be consistent, too. Don’t add more rotations if you see the first few coming out badly, or anything like that. Draw the required number of times to get the necessary mileage (2-3), then move on. Save for that, the funnels look nice. They’re ellipses are confident, snug, and properly cut in half.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean. You should’ve used a ruler for the hatching lines, but that’s alright. The rough perspective exercise shows great improvement throughout the set. By the end, your convergences are on-point, and your linework is quite confident, too. I guess one thing to watch out for is the back lines – they should be properly parallel/perpendicular to the horizon; but errors on that front are very minimal in your submission, so no stress either way. The rotated boxes exercise looks good. You’ve seen it to the end (and a little beyond the end, ahah; you’ve got some extra boxes here), and the boxes are nice and snug. Rotation varies throughout – I notice that the far planes, especially, have some issues – but that’s expected this early on, and something we’ll address in the box challenge, anyway, so no worries. For the organic perspective exercise, be careful that a box that overlaps another does not hide its lines. Also, be careful that your lines (the 3 that make up each of the 3 axes (4 later, once we start drawing through them)) converge, rather than diverge. Though that, too, is something we’ll get into in a second, so if you don’t understand it yet then don’t fret.