Hi there, good job completing this lesson! I’ll be reviewing your homework today.

Lines.

Superimposed lines: These look good! Most of your lines look smooth and confident. You seem to have noticed this as well, but there is slight fraying on the starting point in some of your straight lines, and more severe fraying in the curved lines. I wouldn’t worry too much about the curves at this point, but for the straight lines you should take care to just place your pen more carefully on the starting dot before committing to the line.

Ghosted lines: Excellent! Your lines start on the plotted dot and show minimal wobbling/arching. Your pen looks like it’s starting to run out of ink here, but I understand that resources can be limited sometimes and won’t fault you for that. I’m more concerned about how it seems like you reused the same starting point/endpoint for multiple lines? I sometimes had trouble judging how accurate a line is because I couldn’t find the intended endpoint. When you do the ghosted lines exercise as warm up in the future, try to avoid reusing the same point.

Ghosted planes: As before, your lines are very smooth; well done. There’s some unused space on the second page, however, that I think could be put to use by drawing even more planes and ellipses. Anyways, now that you have the line smoothness down, I’d like to propose a more advanced goal for you: try to avoid overshooting your lines in the future! The main strategy for avoiding overshooting is to slow down slightly as you approach the endpoint, and very gradually start to lift your pen so that it would be fully off the paper by the time you reach the endpoint. Go ahead and try it out!

Ellipses.

Table of ellipses: great job! You’ve drawn each ellipse two or three times, and they are mostly touching each other/ the frame. Your linework here looks good too; your ellipses are smooth with few distortions. Sometimes, though, your ellipse looks very different on one revolution compared to the next. This is perfectly okay for lesson 1, but I’d like to see you keep consistency in mind moving forward.

Ellipses in planes: You did a nice job touching all four sides of most planes without distorting the ellipse’s shape. For the few places where you do fall short of touching one or two edge, or where you have to distort the ellipse to touch an edge, I recommend ghosting more before committing so that you have a very good idea of what the ellipse should look like on the page. I do not recommend altering the ellipse once you are already on the page, such that the first repetition of an ellipse touches two sides while the second repetition touches the other two sides. At some point, you are just drawing two different ellipses.

Funnels: Awesome! Your ellipses’ minor axes are aligned properly with the line down the middle of the funnel, and they avoid overlap for the most part. There’s not much for me to add here besides stuff I’ve already said, so good work!

Boxes.

Plotted perspectives: good job! Only comment here is that, since you added shading for the top two frames, I would have liked to see shading in the bottom frame too.

Rough perspectives: smooth lines as always, and it looks like you’ve started fixing the overshooting issue on some of them, so good job. On top of that, your vertical edges are all perpendicular to the horizon, your horizontal edges are parallel to the horizon, and the convergence of all your other lines is properly marked. The way you put multiple dots on the horizon to mark intersections with it is a little confusing though, and I’d rather that you only kept one dot – the vanishing point – on the horizon. Anyways, my biggest concerns with this exercise are how you tried to fix some lines by drawing them multiple times, and also how you tried to cross out one of your boxes as wrong. These things suggest to me that you are self-conscious about your mistakes and trying to obscure them. At Drawabox, we do not recommend either of these behaviors; we’d rather you display the mistakes proudly to build confidence, and to know at a single glance what you can do to improve.

Rotated boxes: good job overall; some of your boxes on the top row and bottom row are not rotating properly, but mistakes are expected for this exercise, even more so than any other in lesson one. Your line weight is pretty messy and heavy here, I just hope you didn’t get too obsessed with getting it “right” or “perfect” instead of moving on.

Organic perspective: Your boxes are rotating well and all feel like part of the same scene. Again, I see that you repeated some lines and would advise against that in the future. The 250 Boxes Challenge should help you understand perspective even better.

Conclusion: You are off to a great start! Your lines and ellipses are some of the smoothest I’ve seen, and your grasp of perspectives is good as well, so be confident in your drawings and don’t beat yourself up over small things! Moving forward, I would also recommend that you use these exercises as warmups in future lessons and drawing sessions; for instance, the ghosted planes exercise will be particularly helpful for the 250 Boxes Challenge. I think you are all clear to move on, so good luck with the rest of Drawabox!