Welcome to drawabox! Let’s see here.

Your superimposed lines are a little lacking. They’re properly lined up at the start, but not particularly smooth, nor of a consistent trajectory. This indicates a misunderstanding of our priorities. It’s not particularly important for our lines to be accurate, especially if this accuracy comes at the cost of confidence. To put it in the perspective of this exercise, it’s more important for our lines to be smooth, and straight, than it is for them to stick to the guideline. The ghosted lines/planes have a similar issue. They’re mostly smooth, save for at the end. What’s likely happening is that you’re fixating a little too much on the end point, slowing down as you approach it, in an effort to not overshoot. Here, too, the priority is in the resulting mark being smooth, and straight, not it heading in the right direction, or stopping at the right place.

The table of ellipses exercise demonstrates this misunderstanding, too. You seem more concerned with the accuracy of your ellipses (this is to say, whether they fit snuggly within their respective frames), rather than their smoothness, and roundness, but that’s backwards. On the note of snugness, ellipses need to attempt to touch all available sides of the frame, so page 2, row 2, column 1, is in fact incorrect. This is, of course, secondary to their confidence, but having a clear goal is important in being able to draw confidently. The ellipses in planes are more of the same. I’ll especially highlight the pointy nature of some of these, as that’s an indication of a lesser pivot – this is to say, elbow or wrist – that a student is (likely subconsciously) reverting to, to handle a sharp angle. The funnels exercise is similar, with the added issue of sometimes misaligned ellipses. I wonder if these issues are due to a lack of ghosting, then, in addition to the aforementioned misunderstanding. As instructed, please carefully ghost each mark, and only commit to it when you’re ready. And, when you do commit, be sure to do so confidently.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

The rough perspective exercise has some issues regarding line quality – so I’ll quickly redirect you to this section of the ghosted planes page – though, in actuality, line quality here is looking quite good, in comparison to previous sections. Skipping ahead, I notice that line quality improves quite a bit, throughout this submission, so that’s good. As for the convergences, they look solid; I’m glad to see you testing out a number of points, before committing to one.

The rotated boxes exercise looks nice. It’s big, the boxes are snug, and they rotate nicely. Their far planes are a little flat, in comparison, but this is more than expected. As you progress through the box challenge, you’ll learn enough to be able to make some informed decisions of your own, here; until then, you’re fine like this.

Finally, the organic perspective exercise is well done. The boxes themselves look good, and their increase in size, and consistent, shallow foreshortening, do a great job of conveying the illusion of flow that we’re after.