Hi there,

congratulations on finishing lesson 1 and thanks for submitting, I'll be reviewing your homework. I hope my feedback helps you.

Superimposed lines

Your lines are straight and confident. It also looks like you repeated them 8 times and drew from your shoulder. Good job.

Your lines are fraying on both ends though. Make sure not to rush and start at the same point, so they are only fraying at one point. I'd add this to your warmup.

ghosted lines

Nicely done. Your lines are straight and confidently executed. I noticed you repeated/redrew a wrong line, please don't do that. We don't learn anything by redrawing wrong things, so it's better to move on and continue the exercise (if the line is way off, maybe mark the correct ending point and work using that one), otherwise we waste time.

ghosted planes

Good job. You took your time and drew confident and not-wobbly lines. It also looks like you ghosted them thorougly and drew from your shoulder. I'd also add this to your warmup to increase accuracy.

tables of ellipses

You drew confident lines and drew through your ellipses twice. Your ellipses fit snugly next to each other and vary in size, orientation and degree. Good job. I'd add this to your warm up as well to improve accuracy.

ellipses in planes

Your ellipses are smooth and have an even shape. They usually touch all the borders, nicely done. I'd also add this to your warmup.

funnels

Your ellipses are nicely aligned to the minor axis and fit snugly inside the funnel. You even varied their degree. Good job.

plotted perspective

Your boxes aren't distorted and it looks like you understand the concept of horizon lines and vanishing points. The only 'bad' thing I'd like to point out is that you did very few boxes. Try to follow the instructions as accurately as possible and do around the same amount as in the example.

rough perspective

You used one point perspective and all the lines that go off into the distance converge towards the vanishing point. Make sure all horizontal lines run perfectly parallel to the horizon and all vertical lines run perfectly perpendicular to the horizon. Some of your lines are a bit wobbly here, so make sure to thouroughly ghost them and execute them confidently (always remember: in DaB confidence goes over accuracy! the latter comes naturally the more you draw).

I'd also add this to your warmup to improve accuracy (over time).

rotated boxes

Your boxes are snugly next to each other, you drew through them and actually rotated them. Well done. And again: please don't repeat wrong lines. It wastes time and in this case makes the drawing really messy and hard to see.

organic perspective

Your boxes are freely rotated in space and get smaller the further away you get. It also looks like you ghosted your lines. Make sure you ghost your hatching lines as well. Good job.

Note for the warmups: You don't have to do all the "marked" exercises in every warm up. Do 2-3 in one warm up and in the next one switch them around and do others.

You did a really good job completing this lesson and I think you understood all the concepts. Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge.

I wish someone had reminded me of this back then, so here's some (rather general) stuff I learned. I hope it helps you in some way:

• Remember the 50% rule. This challenge takes a lot of time and effort and you'll burn out/lose motivation if you don't do something for yourself as well.

• don't erase wrong lines/draw correct ones over top. If your line is incorrect, mark the correct ending point and draw the rest of your lines correct (you don't learn anything correcting lines, so it just wastes time)

• Take your time with the exercises, especially the box challenge. You'll learn a lot more if you take your time. DaB in general is a marathon and not a sprint. It really helped me to set my goal to "draw x minutes each day" instead of "draw x boxes a day". The amount of boxes you manage during that time will increase the further you get. It also helped me to do DaB at a specific time slot each day.