Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses is coming along okay. You mostly did a good job drawing through your ellipses throughout these pages but I am noticing that you did not draw through for basically half of one of your pages of the table of ellipses. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/11/drawingthrough Even though this doesn't seem to be an issue anywhere else I'd still like you do to one more page of the table of ellipses since I think you could use the practice. You seem to be focusing on a consistent smooth ellipse shapes even if you are struggling at times. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes although you are deforming some of your ellipses at times. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/12/deformed This is likely happening because you are too worried about accuracy and are probably slowing down your stroke to compensate. Try and rely a bit more on the muscle memory of the motion you build up while ghosting and almost make your mark without thinking. This will be less accurate at first. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come through mileage and consistent practice more than anything. Your ellipses in funnels are having the same issues and you are also tilting your ellipses off the minor axis at times. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned This is something you should always consider when drawing your ellipses. Another thing you could have done with these is start with a narrower degree ellipse in the center and then widen the degrees of the ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel. Please check the example here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/step3 There is a lot of room for improvement when it comes to your ellipses both in terms of overall consistency of shape and accuracy so make sure you keep practicing these in your warmups as they can take a while to get used to and I would also like you to do one more page of the table of ellipses.

The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. You are getting a mix of confident linework here along with some wobble creeping back into some of your lines. Once again this is probably happening because you are more concerned with accuracy now that you are constructing boxes and you are slowing down your stroke to compensate. You are doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice. One thing that can help you a bit when doing a one point perspective exercise like this is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be straight up and down. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.

So the rotated box exercise was clearly a bit of a struggle but the important thing is that you gave it your best shot and tried to complete it. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You obviously haven't developed the spatial sense to tackle this exercise yet which is perfectly fine given the difficulty of it. Your linework was also a bit wobbly here probably since you were thinking a lot about box constructions and rotations and were less focused on getting confident linework. This is a great exercise to revisit after a few lessons to see how much your spatial awareness has developed. Your organic perspective exercises are a bit of a mixed bag. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework. However, your box constructions could definitely use some work so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.

Overall this was a pretty good submission. You lost a bit of line quality and confidence when you started tackling the exercises which required you to construct boxes which is a pretty normal thing I've seen. It improved quite a bit by the time you got to the organic perspective exercise which is great. Your ellipses still definitely need work so I'd like you to do one more page of the table of ellipses and make sure you keep practicing these during your warmups. Otherwise I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey fairly well. Once you get that revision submitted I'll take a look and then you can move on to the 250 box challenge.