Hello! Welcome to draw a box. I’ll be taking a look at your submission today.

Let's start with the superimposed lines exercise, these are starting out well with smooth and confidently drawn lines. Your curved lines do however have a bit of wobbling, so you hesitated somewhat. Very noticeable on your more complex curved lines. Another mistake I want to point out is the fraying on both ends. The wavering on the right is expected, but not on the left, your starting point. There, some fraying is present, meaning you rushed the beginning a bit. Remember that you must take some time to place down your pen on the paper. Your ghosted lines and ghosted planes are done well. You didn’t concern yourself with accuracy here and instead focused on keeping your lines smooth. This shows that you are applying the ghosting method and drawing using your whole arm. Some bending is present, so either your shoulder still needs some time to get in shape, meaning that it gets a bit reluctant or unresponsive sometimes, or it’s a natural habit of yours. If the latter, consciously bend the line in the opposite direction. For every mark we make in this course, we draw from our shoulder while disregarding accuracy when we put down our pen, meaning all opportunity to avoid a mistake are gone. So ghost as many times as you need to build up muscle memory. Accuracy will come with time.

Your table of ellipses looks good. You kept them within the set boundaries of each box and drew them confidently, resulting in a smooth yet somewhat loose ellipse. No problem with that, as it will tighten up with practice. You also did a good job keeping the angle and degree consistent through the entire cell. The ellipses in planes are also done very well, smooth ellipses still, and you took did your best to keep them tangent to the planes edges. For your funnels, there are a couple of misalignment there with the minor axis. Take a look at this for reference. Your ellipses are snugged up against one another and tucked inside the funnel too, so great job. As stated, all ellipses must be drawn two to three times with and with confidence, just like with the lines.

Plotted perspective is done well; no issues here other than some tilted vertical lines in the back present in the box at the final section to the right. Great job on the rough perspective exercise, lines were extended towards the vanishing horizon line as instructed. You can tell where you were off with your intuitive guesses, even with a vanishing point as a guide. As you develop a better understanding of perspective, these mistakes will slowly lessen, resulting in a reduced margin of error. The rotated boxes exercise is indeed a difficult exercise. The one after as well. But they introduce us to concepts early on that, while difficult to grasp, will later start making sense as you practice. So far, I say your rotated boxes look quite solid, you kept the neighboring boxes close to each other, and they have a good deal of rotation on the corners of the sphere. Not much rotation on the vertical boxes, however, a very common issue. Take a loot at this other example. The bottom of the boxes are quite challenging to draw. When we rotate our box, the vanishing points will shift a bit, so your lines must follow that new vanishing point. Still, this exercise was done well. And the same can be said about the organic perspective exercise. There is depth to the scene, and you kept your boxes shallow as instructed. Also, good work on keeping your lines smooth, this is something that some students disregard after the line exercises, focusing on accuracy instead. Keep your eye out for the initial Y’s angles, they must always be greater than 90 degrees.

Solid submission! You understood the purposed of each exercise and are ready to move on to the 250 box challenge, which I highly recommend. Congratulations on completing lesson 1 and good luck on the box challenge!