Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your homework today. Starting with your superimposed lines these are coming along fine. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your tapering on the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out very nicely. You are using the ghosting method to great effect to get some very confident linework with a pretty good deal of accuracy that will get even better with practice.
Your table of ellipses are looking pretty good as well. You are doing a nice job drawing through all of your ellipses and you appear to be shooting for a smooth ellipse shape overall which is great. Of course these aren't perfect due to the difficulty of drawing ellipses but I'm not noticing any major issues. This is carried over pretty nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's good that you aren't slowing down your stroke for the sake of accuracy and are instead shooting for that smooth ellipse shape which is your number one priority for now. Accuracy is your ultimate goal but is something you will be building towards with mileage. With your ellipses in funnels you are definitely running into some issues with your ellipses tilting off the minor axis that you will want to start considering a bit more. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned Whenever you draw an ellipse you always want to think about the minor axis. Your ellipses are off to a fine start in general but there's plenty of room for improvement here so keep practicing these during your warmups.
Plotted perspective looks fine for the most part although I have a bit of advice when it comes to adding line weight. Your line weight is looking pretty feathery and this is most likely happening because you are using your wrist to add it. If you want to add line weight try and treat it the same as every other line you would draw for these lessons and ghost it multiple times and then draw from your shoulder with confidence. Your rough perspective boxes turned out really well. 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 is something that will become more intuitive with practice. You are also doing a really nice job keeping up with the ghosting method and confident linework.
Your rotated box exercise was a pretty good attempt! The same criticism I mentioned about your added line weight earlier I have here as well but otherwise you did a really nice job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You ran into a pretty common student issue here of not actually rotating your boxes in a lot of cases but instead simply drawing them moving back into perspective. Please check the lesson notes here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating Finally your organic perspective exercise turned out okay. Your line quality is confident in some places but I'm noticing that you are starting to redraw lines a bit which is a habit I would like you to avoid. If you put down a line that is slightly off just try and work with it. It looks far messier to just add more lines. Some of your box constructions are a bit wonky as well so I think the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.
Overall this was a really nice submission that showed a good deal of growth particularly with your line quality. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey pretty well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
The 250 Box Challenge
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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