Congratulations on completing lesson 1! You did a pretty good job overall and I can see you made a lot of good improvement by the end.
Starting with your super-imposed lines, you do a pretty job job of pushing through and keeping your lines smooth. There are a few areas where you have some wobbling but it is very minimal. In your ghosted lines you maintain this. I can see that some of your lines were more hesitant than others and it looks like you may have been trying to course correct your lines in some areas. Just remember that the confidence of the stroke is far and away your top priority. Accuracy is something that you will improve on as you continue working through Drawabox and practice ghosting. While it is important that you use the ghosting method of each mark you make while doing Drawabox one thing you can try to help with ending your marks closer to where you want them is lifting the pen off of the page rather than stopping the motion of your arm. With your planes you start to do a better job of reducing the hesitation in your lines. There are some areas where you have significant arcing though, which you can read about here.
For your tables of ellipses you drew thruogh your ellipses correctly and I can see that you took your time trying to fit them neatly in the alloted space. Some of your ellipses look a bit wobbly though. Make sure that when you are drawing through your ellipses that you are using the ghosting method to plan and prepare for your ellipses. I would also recommend that you read this comment by Uncomfortable, where he talks more about hesitation. In your ellipses in planes you start to show some improvement with your ellipses. They are looking less hesitant overall and have a rounder, more even shape. Lastly for this section is your funnels. Some of your ellipses here have a good amount of improvement showing. You can see how some of your ellipses here are smoother, less hesitant and have a rounder more even shape. Many of your larger ellipses show a lot more hesitation and possibly needed to be ghosted more before execution. Just keep in mind what I said before about taking your time and employing the ghosting method for your ellipses the same as you would your straight lines.
With your rough perspective boxes I can see that you struggled a bit with placing some of your boxes correctly on the page, as shown here. You also have quite a bit of wobbling and hesitation showing again in your lines here. Keep in mind as you progress through Drawabox and begin to construct more complex forms that it is important to put in the time and focus required to execute each line correctly and to apply the ghosting method to every step of the process, as explained here.
The rotated boxes exercise is a challenging and complex assignment. You did pretty well for your first attempt! Your boxes are all drawn through correctly and you got a good bit of rotation to your boxes along the major axes. It does look like you were either trying to add some additional line weight to your boxes or you were trying to "correct" a mistake. When you go to add weight to a line it is important that you treat the added weight the same way you would a brand new line. That means taking your time to plan and ghost through your mark so that when you go to execute it the mark blends seamlessly with your previous mark. This will allow you to build and create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines. As for "correcting" mistakes. That is not something you want to do while working through Drawabox. If the line is wrong, we leave it and move onto the next one. Make sure that you read the comment by Uncomfortable that I linked above before moving on.
Finally with your organic perspective boxes I can see some room for improvement with getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points. That is something you will work on more in the next steps.
Congrats again and good luck with the 250 Box Challenge!
Next Steps:
Continue to the 250 Box Challenge!
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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