Hey there ABK, congratulations on your submission of Lesson 1! My name is Mickey and I'll be providing your critique this round. Let's get to it!

• Your superimposed lines exercise was completed to satisfaction, with each line clearly drawn from the shoulder. Great job including a varied array of line lengths and curves.

• Your ghosted lines exercise has also been done well, each mark begins correctly on one of the dots and follows through confidently. Accuracy is just a matter of mileage, so as you continue with this exercise in your warmups you'll find you can hit the mark more precisely, and more often, over time. Confidence will be your main focus whenever executing freehand lines, so don't worry as much about a mark being inaccurate as long as you put effort into making a bold mark. That said, you've reached a considerable degree of accuracy with these already.

• Good job on your ghosted planes and ellipses in planes, it's clear that each stroke has been executed with confidence and care, and the ellipses have been drawn through and fit within the bounds of the plane.

• Your table of ellipses includes a variety of ellipse degrees and angles, the space was used well and your ellipses are drawn through. Well done.

• Your funnels exercise is similarly well-executed, the ellipses stay within the bounds of the curves and are split symmetrically along the minor axis. For an extra challenge, in future iterations of this exercise you might try varying the degree of your ellipses to create the illusion of expansion as you move out from the center (see: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3).

• Your plotted perspective exercise is also satisfactory. Each box traces back to its appropriate vanishing points, and the vertical edges are parallel and drawn to the appropriate corners.

• Your rough perspective exercise is very clean, each front and rear plane is believably parallel in space and a good attempt was made to extend each back toward the vanishing point.

• Rotated boxes is an (in)famously challenging piece of homework, and it looks like you've properly grasped the concepts of edge alignment, rotation, and mirroring your boxes; however, you're missing several of your boxes along the edges of your form. The complete form will have eight boxes per "quadrant" (not counting the center box). I rarely assign revisions for this exercise given its nature as a brain teaser, but it might be to your benefit to go back on your own time and try adding the remaining five boxes on top and five boxes on the bottom just to see how far you can take this exercise (don't forget about the corner boxes).

• For your organic perspective exercise, I see a great variety in Y shapes and sizes; this method of freeform drawing will serve you well in the box challenge. You can also use this exercise to play with box sizes, where larger boxes would be closer to the viewer and smaller boxes will be farther away. I see some play here already, but you can really push the illusion by increasing the size difference between the largest and smallest box on the page, and even making your largest box partially cut out by the frame due to its size.

In all: great work! I'm very pleased to mark your Lesson 1 as done and give you the go-ahead for the box challenge. Keep these exercises in your warmup rotation, I like to recommend this handy tool (https://mark-gerarts.github.io/draw-a-card/) to help you choose a warmup before you begin future Drawabox work. Congratulations!