Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
8:57 PM, Tuesday March 3rd 2026
Honest and harsh feedback is welcome, my feelings do not get hurt easy so please pick out minor details, thank you so much in advance for taking your time to go through my work
Welcome and congratulations on finishing the first lesson of Drawabox! I'm Mada and I'll be taking a look at your submission.
Overall you did a great job here, but I do have a bit to mention so let's break them down one by one. I'll write the most important things in bold.
Lines
Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. Ghosted lines look correctly ghosted and confident too, and there are barely any arching. You've also demonstrated the same confidence in your ghosted planes with a great accuracy. Nothing much to say except keep up the good work!
Ellipses
Now with the tables of ellipses, you've demonstrated a great understanding of the concept in executing confident ellipses. The ellipses in planes are nice, you drew it confidently and snugly in their respective planes.
The funnels are also looking great; you've managed to fit them snugly and aligned to the minor axis and carried the same confidence as in previous exercises. I have no complaints here as your ellipses will tighten as you get more practice. This is optional, but you can attempt the extra step of varying the ellipse's degrees as you move outwards in your warmups, as mentioned here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3
Boxes
The plotted perspective has no problems, you've shown a good understanding of how to make 2 point perspective aside from a few skewed lines.
You've applied the ghosting method and lines extension correctly for the rough perspective. I've noticed that some of the back faces of your boxes are not rectangular. By rectangular, we mean that they should be composed of horizontals that are parallel to the horizon line, and verticals that are perpendicular to it. While this could also be caused by the occasional inaccurate lines, it's worth mentioning that there should not be any arbitrary guesswork or random angles. Don't forget that these rectangular front/back faces are the unique characteristics of 1 point perspective. (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/roughperspective/guessing)
As the notoriously most difficult exercise in this lesson, you've done a great job at doing the rotated boxes so far. You've rotated them pretty well (while making sure to move the converging lines) and used neighboring elements to deduce the next orientation of boxes, which is the whole purpose of this exercise. Only one problem though, is that you forgot to draw in one more layer of boxes around it (you're missing 16 boxes specifically, refer to the example here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/21/example). It might not seem much, but we'd like you to finish each exercise to its utmost completion and benefit, especially when the corner boxes will give you the most challenge!
Finally, organic perspective looks great as well. They look like they belong in the same page and the lines converge as they move farther away from the viewer. There are a few hiccups here and there where there are divergences that results in skewed boxes, but overall they're minor and they look pretty solid.
This will get more relevant as you get to the box challenge, but any hatching from this point on should also be done with the ghosting method. It will make your stuff cleaner and more practice is always good! Try to cover the whole area of the box with consistent spacing.
Anyway, while I think you've grasped most of the concepts, I'd still like you to finish the rotated boxes as mentioned above. Make sure to reply directly to this feedback so I can be notified!
Next Steps:
Finish the Rotated Boxes exercise (the missing 16 boxes; refer to the example).
Really struggle with the corner pieces
Thank you for submitting your revision! You've done a great job at applying both concepts of rotation and neighboring elements with the rest of the boxes. You're missing a bit of corner boxes here, but this part is understandably hard to do. I believe you'll be able to improve more as you go through the box challenge. Remember to keep working on your lines & ellipses confidence. Congratulations and keep up the good work!
Next Steps:
Move onto the 250 box challenge.
Do the lesson 1 exercises as your regular warmup and don't forget your 50% rule art.
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