Welcome to drawabox, and a big congrats on completing Lesson 1. Let’s see how you did, shall we?

Starting off, your superimposed lines are look good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Your ghosted lines look quite confident, too, as you do your planes, but I notice in the latter that your start/end points are a little too big. Remember that the goal is for a perfect line to swallow them both.

Moving on to the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise is mostly good. There’s not a great deal of variety to your ellipses (I’m referring to their degrees, and angles), and they’re at times a little wobbly, but I assume that this is mostly due to their size (it’s mostly the smaller ones that are, and, as you know, the smaller a mark, the harder it is to engage the shoulder for it). The rest of them are smooth, rounded, and, more often than not, properly drawn through. As for the ‘not’, be sure to rotate around them a full 2 times, not 1 and change. This goes for the ellipses in planes too, as you might expect. These ones are fairly solid, and though there’s the occasional ellipse that goes so far as to deform, in a misguided attempt to fill as much of the plane as possible, that seems to be the exception, rather than the rule, so I don’t need to remind you about how the priority is for them to be smooth/round, not accurate. As for the funnels, these look good, too, though the comments regarding the size of the ellipses (and how they shouldn’t be too small) certainly apply to these, too.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

The rough perspective exercise looks good, as far as its convergences are concerned. Linework, on the other hand, is a different issue. I will remind you that, regardless of the big picture, a lot of these exercise consist of nothing but single lines, no different from the ones you drew in the ghosted lines/planes exercises. If so, and if they could be confident there, why not here, too? Generally, the answer is: because students get overwhelmed. In those cases, then, it’s helpful to remind yourself that, after all, it’s only lines.

For the rotated boxes exercise, you seem to have forgotten about the reminder boxes (the ones we have you draw first!) Unsurprisingly, your boxes don’t do a great job of rotating, here. Nonetheless, you’ve been careful to keep them snug, and, even – I’m sure – yourself aware that the exercise wasn’t progressing as well as it could, you stuck with it. That, indeed, ends up being the important part. You won’t always know how to do something, but choosing to do it nonetheless, is an important skill to have.

Speaking of skills, the organic perspective exercise is really well done. Some of the boxes, especially the smaller ones, end up looking a little similar to each other (they’re, most of them, cubes), but that’s not a huge issue, and you’ll have pleeenty of chances to practice with their shapes. Beyond that, they flow well, as per their size and foreshortening, and add up to some interesting compositions, to boot.