Hi! Congratulations on finishing your first lesson!
Superimposed lines
Overall these look good! There's no fraying at the start of your lines, and there doesn't seem to be wobbling at all. There does seem to be a bit of arching going on, which may be caused by not using your shoulder pivot. Alternatively, this may be a natural tendency in which case you'll have to consciously arc your line in the opposite direction. I can speak from experience, eventually it'll get better.
Ghosted lines
Your arching lines are mostly gone, that's good. Some lines are a tad wobbly, so remember to take your time with ghosting and that confidence is more important than accuracy, which will come with time.
Ghosted planes
As with your ghosted lines there's a bit of wobble sometimes but generally these are well done.
Table of ellipses
These look very good, most of your ellipses fit quite snugly in their confinements, sometimes their position isn't quite right, but it'll get better with more practice
Ellipses in planes
The same things from your table of ellipses apply here, well done for the most part.
Funnels
The purpose of this exercise is getting used to the minor axis line, and getting your ellipses to fit snugly within a set space. I feel like you've done this well. A few of your ellipses aren't cut in two symmetrical halves, but most of them are. Again, you'll get better at this the more you practice.
Plotted perspective
While it's good you hatched the front view of the boxes, they are hard to tell apart. This is because you drew boxes behind other boxes (in the middle of your page,) while it's not a problem to have them overlap a little, drawing boxes mostly behind other boxes makes it hard to distinguish them, especially when you don't add lineweight. The boxes are drawn using the vp's properly, but in the future I enourage you to add line weight to set them apart more.
Rough perspective
The first thing that I noticed is that in some cases your width lines aren't parallel to the horizon, and your height lines aren't perpendicular to the horizon. This might just be because a number of your lines are wobbly, but it's especially visible on the first, leftmost box on your second page. (notice how the width line is going from the upperleft to the lowerright?) The rest looks good.
Rotated boxes
Again, it's very difficult to critique this exercise because I can't really distinguish these boxes from eachother, this is also why using a fineliner is recommended, there are no gradients to complicate things. You have undoubtedly already read this article, but I'm still going to link it. https://drawabox.com/article/ink From what I can tell, your boxes look good. They are all close together and rotating properly.
Organic perspective
It's immediately obvious that theres no variance in line weight, you want to draw lighter the further away a line goes, and gradually darker the more it moves towards a viewer. Your boxes look pretty good, and you're gonna get a ton of experience while working through the 250 box challenge.
You did very well! There were no glaring issues, and it seems like you understood all of the concepts well. I wish you luck with the box challenge, it's gonna be tough.
Next Steps:
250 Box challenge
Thank's a bunch for the feedback and the time taken. now im 8th box in the 250 boxes challenge so i'll be back soon :D (I hope)
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We've also tested their longevity. We've found that if we're reasonably gentle with them, we can get through all of Lesson 1, and halfway through the box challenge. We actually had ScyllaStew test them while recording realtime videos of her working through the lesson work, which you can check out here, along with a variety of reviews of other brands.
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