Hi; welcome to drawabox! I’ll be looking through your lesson 1 submission today~

Starting off, your superimposed lines are looking good; they’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Your ghosted lines look quite good, too, though I notice the occasional wobble in your planes. Remember that a ghosted plane is just a collection of ghosted lines, drawn one at a time- you’re not, essentially, doing anything different in this exercise, so try not to get overwhelmed. Be sure, also, to plot some start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes. All lines need those.

The table of ellipses exercise improves nicely by page 2, though there’s still the occasional issue. First, there’s that of them starting off stiff, only to stabilize in their second rotation. This is indicative of a lack of ghosting, so be sure not to move past that step until you’re comfortable with the built-up motion. Then, there’s the occasional pointiness of your ellipses. This usually means that a lesser pivot (elbow/wrist) is getting involved, so be sure to check back, every once in a while, to make sure that all marks are indeed originating from the shoulder. Finally, there’s the end of the motion. You’ll usually flick your pen, as per the change in trajectory. Try lifting it off, instead- your ellipses should look a lot cleaner as a result. The ellipses in planes exercise takes a step in the wrong direction, unfortunately. Your ellipses here are a little wobbly, likely from a focus on accuracy, but that runs counter to our goals- in fact, we care for confidence. We want our ellipses to be smooth, and rounded, even at the cost of their accuracy; not the other way around. The funnels exercise has this issue, as well as the ones mentioned in the first section, too, so be especially mindful of this. A confident mark, however inaccurate, can still be used as the foundation of a solid construction. A wobbly mark, however accurate, cannot.

The plotted perspective exercise looks nice, but I notice that you’ve robbed yourself of the opportunity to get a lot of practice in, by splitting your page into compositions, as instructed. Though this isn’t entirely necessary for this exercise, it is for the next one, so that’s unfortunate. Thankfully, the aforementioned exercise looks good. Your linework is mostly confident, and you’ve been careful to keep 2 sets of lines at infinity, and have 1 converge. The convergences themselves are decent, though they could be better. To ensure this, spend more time planning them. Don’t feel obligated to stick to your original points. If you find them to be lacking (ghost the to the horizon, to see if you do), adjust them- it’s perfectly fine to. The rotated boxes exercise looks good. The gaps between your boxes are narrow, and they do a decent job of rotating. This is less so the case around back, but that’s expected. Next time, perhaps spend a little longer considering each line, thinking of how it should behave, and, especially, why. The box challenge should give you some insight into this. Finally, save for the occasional dip in line quality (again, think back to the thing I linked in the first section of this critique), the organic perspective exercise looks good. Your boxes flow nicely, as a result of a proper increase in size, and some consistent, shallow foreshortening- nicely done.

Take note of everything I’ve mentioned, and aim to improve upon it in your daily warmups. Good luck, and free to move on to the box challenge.