Hey! Welcome to drawabox! I’ll be looking through your submission today~

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are… decent. They’re occasionally wobbly, but it seems like you’re trying to prioritize their confidence, so I won’t call that out too strongly. I will however, call out their altered trajectory. Remember that this needs to be consistent throughout. That is to say, if a line runs off course, boldly continue onto that course, rather than course-correcting. Also, just to confirm, you’re drawing guidelines, and then superimposing your lines on top of them, correct? It’s a little hard to tell, sometimes. The ghosted lines look good, especially in the ghosted planes exercise, though you could afford to push their confidence a little more. It’s perfectly fine for them to miss the end point, or stop short of it, you know? Also, try to plot some start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of the planes, if you can.

The table of ellipses exercise is mostly good. Your ellipses are smooth, and rounded. There’s the occasional one that starts out a little stiff, before stabilizing, and they have some visible tails, too, so I’ll recommend ghosting until ready, then committing, to fix that first problem, and lifting, not flicking, your pen off the page at the end to fix the second one. The ellipses in planes exercise is admittedly a little lacking in comparison. It looks like you got a little too caught up in their accuracy, but that’s not necessary. It’s far more important for them to be confident, and circular, instead. This aspect of them look a lot better in the funnels exercise. Your ellipses are confident, snug, and properly cut in half by the minor axis. Just remember that lining your ellipses up to the minor axis is the entire point of this exercise. So if, when approaching the edge of your funnel, you notice that there’s no more axis, either stop there, or extend it, and add another ellipse. Adding one that’s not aligned to anything serves no purpose.

Starting off the box section, the plotted perspective exercise is… missing. This is an easy one, so I’ll probably end up making this lesson as complete, either way, but, just to be safe, I’d like to see if, if it’s not too much trouble for you. The rough perspective exercise is a bit of a mixed bag. The convergences are solid, and they improve throughout the set. Though this is also the case for the linework, it’s, unfortunately, nowhere near where we’d like it to be. There’s 3 sides to this. First, there’s the lines of the boxes themselves. These are wobbly, though they’ve no reason to. Remember that, though the exercise itself might be different, the act of drawing a line hasn’t changed; you’re doing the same thing here that you did in the ghosted lines/planes exercise. If your lines can be confident there, they can be confident here, too. Think back to this section. Second, there’s the hatching lines. Judging from how they hook at the end, these seem to have been drawn fairly quickly- this is incorrect. Hatching lines should be properly ghosted, same as the rest of them. Their purpose is to clean up a drawing, and guide the viewer’s eyes where you’d like them to go, so they need to be tight, and consistent. Otherwise, they’re far more likely to do the opposite: guide the viewer’s eyes towards themselves, which is not what you want. At that point, you’d have been better off not including them entirely. So, either be patient, or don’t bother. Thirdly, remember that each line is to be drawn once, and only once, regardless of how it turns out. In other words: don’t correct and incorrect line, and don’t extend a line that stops short. The rotated boxes exercise looks fairly good. There’s a couple of boxes that haven’t been drawn through, but most have. They’re also snug, and rotate nicely. The next time you attempt this exercise, try to draw a little bigger, if you can. Not only will it give your brain some room to think, but it’ll also give you an opportunity to consider each line, and the purpose it serves, individually, as well as as a part of a set. Finally, the organic perspective exercise looks good. The boxes are solid, and they increase in size as they move towards us, and maintain a consistent, shallow foreshortening. The lineweight (I’m assuming that that’s what it is, rather than automatic reinforcing) is a little sloppy, but there’ll be plenty an opportunity to practice that in the box challenge. Speaking of, feel free to move on to it.