Ideally, they’d be separate pages, but it’s not an issue – we can judge them like this, too (it’s how most students submit them, anyway… TT).

Hello, and welcome to drawabox. I’ll be taking a look at your lesson 1 submission.

Starting off, your superimposed lines looks solid. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. The ghosted lines/planes look quite good, too. I cheated, and skipped to the end, and noticed that the overshooting issue improves throughout the set – good on your for keeping on top of it.

The table of ellipse exercise looks mostly good – your ellipses are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. Try to lift (not flick) your pen off the page at the end of said rotations, though. Also, be a little more careful with regards to your spacing. Also also, remember that ellipses in a frame share a degree/angle. The ellipses in planes look really confident, despite these more complicated frames. Now that you’ve gotten your feet wet, see if you can fit them in in such a way that the ellipses are bisected by the center lines. Nice job on the funnels. But!, where there’s no minor axis (the edges of your funnels), there should be no ellipses, either. The goal isn’t to draw an ellipse that is roughly upright, it’s to draw one that we’ve carefully aligned to the minor axis, such that it is cut into two equal, symmetrical halves by it. Anything beyond that is an ellipse without a goal, and those are of no use to us.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

The rough perspective exercise shows some good improvement over its 2 pages. I’m pleased to see that you’re spending a lot of time on the planning stage, as per the number of unused points on the page. It’s minor, but the front faces of your boxes should’ve been drawn free hand. A little tip I’ll give you: pay attention to the shapes of your planes. Since we’re dealing with 1-point perspective, we know that the near plane (the one you’ve drawn with the ruler) should be identical in shape to the far plane (the one we plot points for). If they’re not, like in the case of the rightmost box in page 2, frame 1, then there’s a mistake with our points.

The rotated boxes exercise looks great! It’s bit (though it could be even bigger!), the boxes are snug, and rotate nicely. The far planes look good, too, as do the depth lines of your boxes. What little mistakes there are will be ironed out as we progress through the box challenge, so don’t stress – all that’s left at this point are some informed decisions, that don’t necessarily align with the exercise instructions, that you’ll have to make.

Looking at it more carefully now, I’m wondering if the reason for the overshooting in the organic perspective exercise is because you didn’t point start/end points for your lines, instead extending them arbitrarily, and then meeting them from the other side. If that’s the case, know that it’s incorrect – all lines need start/end points. Outside of that, however, this looks solid; the size, and foreshortening of your boxes do a good job of conveying the illusion we’re after.