Hey! Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on finishing lesson 1. I’ll take a look at it for you.

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking solid. They’re smooth, and properly lined up at the start, but not always of a consistent trajectory, so be mindful of that. Also, you’ve not tried any arcing/wavy lines. The ghosted lines/planes look fairly confident, except as they’re approaching their respective end points. Try to be a little less conscious of that, if you can. Rather than stopping at the right place, it’s more important for your lines to be smooth, and straight.

Your ellipses are well done. Save for some exceptions, they’re smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. Let’s talk about those exceptions, really quickly. Sometimes, they’ll start off a little stiff, then stabilize. It’s important to ghost until you’re confident in the built-up motion so that when you do commit, your ellipse is confident from the start. Other times, your ellipses will come out a little pointy. This is usually an indication that a lesser pivot (elbow/wrist) is getting involved, so always check back to make sure your lines are originating from your shoulder. The ellipses in planes are more of the same, which is to say, good, but could be better. Be careful, also, because you’ll sometimes draw through them a little much, here. 2-3 times, ideally 2 – is the recommendation. The funnels look great. Your ellipses there are snug, and properly cut into two equal, symmetrical halves. Nice work.

The plotted perspective exercise looks nice, though there’s a bit too much empty space in your page.

The rough perspective exercise shows a good start, but could be improved. Here’s how. First, be a little more mindful of your linework. It’s a little weaker here, as compared to the previous sections, but there’s no reason for that to be the case – the process of drawing a line hasn’t really changed. Second, don’t force yourself to stick to your first guess, as far as the convergences are concerned. After you’ve placed that first point, check it, and alter it as needed, as many times as needed, until you’re satisfied. Then commit.

The line quality issue extends to the rotated boxes exercise, too, but it seems alright aside from that. It does seem like you’ve forgotten about the visual reminder boxes, however, so try to be a little more mindful to the instructions if you can. Your boxes are snug, and you’ve been mindful of their neighboring edges (sometimes to a fault, but you’ll only learn enough about boxes to be able to make informed decisions regarding things like this after the box challenge, so this is perfectly fine). For now, this is more than satisfactory.

Finally, the organic perspective exercise looks good. It’s a little hard to tell, but it seems like you might not have plotted start/end points for a lot of these lines? If not, know that you should. Other than that, the only issue is in the occasional divergence, but this, too, we’ll get into in the box challenge, so no worries. The goal of this exercise is to draw a bunch of boxes that feel like they fit in a scene together, as per their size, and foreshortening, and these do.