Hello, EduardCAB. Welcome to DaB and congratulations on completing lesson 1! I'll be critiquing your work per section.

Lines:

Superimposed lines look good. There is limited fraying on either ends, and all lines maintain a constant trajectory. Nice work on this one. Ghosted lines are decent. There are some instances of overshooting, take a look at this link to help prevent this from occuring (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/lifthand). Ghosted planes are good. I see that you've improved your tendency of overshooting! Lines are confident and smooth.

Ellipses:

Tables are ellipses are pretty good. Ellipses look like they're drawn through maybe 3 times? I recommend to only draw through ellipses twice. This will make them more clean. Nonetheless, ellipses snugly fit in the boxes and are round in shape. Funnels are good. The minor axis properly cuts each ellipse into two symmetrical halves. Ellipses are also drawn through properly. Ellipses in planes are good. You do have some ellipses are are drawn through around 3-5 times. Again, I recommend to only drawn through them twice.

Boxes:

Plotted perspective is good and clean, I have no comments about it. Rough perspective is good. Linework is clean and you have a good variety of boxes. Rotated box exercise is pretty good. Linework is clean and the boxes are sufficiently rotating. Boxes are also drawn through properly, good job. Organic perspective is pretty good. It successfully conveys the correct illusion - as boxes get farther from the viewer, they decrease in size. There are some issues with perspective, but those will ultimately be fixed through the 250 box challenge.

Overall, I did you did a good job on lesson 1! I'll mark this as complete. Be sure to do 2-3 of these exercises for around 10 minutes per day to further develop your skills. Good luck on the 250 box challenge :^)

Good morning EDUARDCAB,

As a thank you for reviewing my submission, I will attempt to review yours, although I won't pretend to be good at this! I will go through each page of homework and make comments, and comment in bold anything that I see that stands out as an mistake that could use some work. I wrote a ton more than I wanted to so feel free to only pay attention to the bold text.

1. Superimposed lines look good, although I think pretty much everyone needs to work on those lines that arc back and forth like a ~.

2. Ghosted lines do not arc nor wobble, very good.

3. Ghosted planes continue your good ghosted lines.

4. Table of ellipses shows drawn though ellipses meeting clear goal (touching sides). One thing to work on would be keeping the angle of your ellipses the same, as in some of your larger table sections with angled boxes show changing angles.

5. For ellipses in planes, some of your ellipses seem a bit deformed. They lines are smooth but the elliptical shape suffers a little bit with some of these. I would keep practicing ellipses in planes with more and more extreme planes and try to focus on keeping that smooth, even elliptical shape.

6. Your funneled ellipses are very clean and properly aligned, good work here.

7. Good plotted boxes.

8. Rough perspective looks pretty good. Your horizontal and vertical lines could be a bit more horizontal and vertical. Your farthest edge that goes back to the vanishing point seems to struggle a bit but you improved on it as you worked on the exercise. Similarly, those boxes farthest from the VP also struggle but this is very understandable and something we all need practice on specifically. I would recommend doing some very far boxes specifically to work on this.

9. Rotated boxes are very good, although your bottom box seems to veer a bit off center. This may be related to drawing perfectly horizontal and vertical lines a bit off as I mentioned in point 8.

10. Organic perspective looks clean.

I'll do a review for each exercise, not because I think there is one or several mistakes every time (which is actually quite far from being the case), but because I think that commenting on what's been done well is equally interesting and constructive, especially to keep good habits on the long run, but also to comment on ways to improve the use of your arm so that you can attain smoother and confident lines faster.

Superimposed lines:

• The logic of the exercise is well understood

• The lines are drawn with the shoulder

• There's fraying on both end - Take your time to put your pen exactly where you want it before tracing a line.

Ghosted Lines:

• The logic of the exercise is well understood

• The lines are drawn with the shoulder

Tips: Inaccuracy issues will solve themselves with practice, so no need to worry about that right now. That said, one advice from my personnal experience would be to think of your arm as a ruler when tracing your lines, meaning that you must really focus on locking your wrist when moving your shoulder so that your arm will more easily follow a straight line, as if there was a ruler on top of your pen. It's just a personal thinking process that I've gone through during the exercises but it really helped me to straighten my lines by just thinking about it.

Ghosted Planes:

• The logic of the exercise is well understood

• The lines are drawn with the shoulder

Table of Ellipses:

• The logic of the exercise is well understood

Tips: One method I use when drawing circles and ellipses is to think about the momentum, aka the speed at which my arm needs to move to achieve a smooth transition between the minor and major axis. I usually starts off "slow" (it must still be in a smooth and confident motion to avoid wobbly lines) then speed up when reaching the tip of my ellipse, drawing the opposite part of the minor axis much faster. While I'm no professional artist, controling the speed of my ellipses that way helped me a great deal, and it might be worth a try i you feel like it.

Ellipses in Planes:

• The logic of the exercise is well understood

Funnels:

• The logic of the exercise is well understood

Plotted Perspective:

• The logic of the exercise is well understood

Rough Perspective:

• The logic of the exercise is well understood

Rotated Boxes:

• The logic of the exercise is well understood

Tips: I'm actually impressed by how well you managed to reproduce the correct form for the whole structure. Which is something I had quite a few struggles with. The only advice I could give would be to think more how your structure constructs itself around the X and Y axis, and not only around itself. Basically: The form is excellent, but its position in space can be improved.

Organic Perspective:

• The logic of the exercise is well understood

General Conclusion: You've got a good understanding of 3D forms and how they constructs themselves in space. With a bit of practice on your arm's movements, you'll do great!