Hello there. I'll be critiquing your homework. Let's see how you did!

Superimposed lines: Looking good. You start from one point and strive for the end point. There is fraying, but that's to be expected. The important part is that you're drawing smooth, confident lines. You should try to do a few more superimposed lines; there's still quite a bit space left over in your paper.

Ghosted lines: Also looking good. Your lines are sometimes overshooting quite a bit, but again, the important part is that you're drawing confidently. Accuracy will develop slowly but surely as you keep drawing.

Ghosted planes & Ellipses in planes: I'd like to say that you didn't need to do four pages of ghosted planes, but as with superimposed lines, there's quite a bit of room left over in each page. Maybe those extra pages ended up giving you the amount needed. You should fill each page of homework with as many of what is required as you can.

The planes themselves are looking good, you're still drawing confidently. Nothing to add there that hasn't already been said above. As for the ellipses, you're not quite hitting the sides of the planes, but it looks like you're trying to, so that's alright. What I said about accuracy above also applies here, and you'll be getting a lot of experience and mileage as you do these same exercises as warmups in the future.

Some ellipses you have drawn through a few more times than necessary. Keep it at 2 - 3 times, anything less is redundant. Also, go back and draw ellipses on the other two pages of ghosted planes.

Tables of ellipses: Let's start with the good things: You're still drawing confidently, and most of the time you're drawing through 2 or 3 times. You've filled each frame with circles that touch each other. That's a good start.

Then, the problems:

1. You have not tried to hit all the edges of a frame. The instructions state that you should start from either the far left or the far right side, draw an ellipse that hits the top, bottom and left/right side of the edge, and then draw an another ellipse that again hits the top, bottom and the neighbouring ellipse. What you've done here is draw an ellipse that only hits two edges. You should try to hit three edges at all times, even when drawing the smaller ellipses to fill up a frame.

2. Your frames are entirely too large. If you look at the example homework, we can see that there are 12 frames. Meanwhile, yours have 6 and 8. Now, the materials don't explicitly say how many frames to do, but as with superimposed lines and ghosted planes, it's become a pattern here that you're doing less than what's asked. I can't tell why you would do this - maybe you just want to be done faster, or maybe you just didn't go through the instructions properly - but you won't win any favors by not doing what's asked.

I'll have to ask you to do one extra page of this exercise. Go over the instructions again, and give more thought to what I stated above. You have already demonstrated that you can do what's needed here, now you just need to follow through.

Funnels: This is looking mostly fine. You are trying to hit the curves and keep the ellipses aligned to the minor axis, although the minor axis could stand to be a bit longer; it'll make it a bit easier for you.

It seems this exercise made you draw through ellipses more than before. Considering that ellipses are notoriously difficult to draw properly, in addition to having to deal with the minor axis and the changing sizes of the ellipses induced by the curvy edges, you may be trying to force the ellipses to look accurate. Your homework don't need to be "perfect", or even "good" in order to pass the lesson. What matters is that you demonstrate that you understand what you are aiming for, which in this case is trying to keep the ellipses aligned to the minor axis, and trying to hit both the curves and a neighbouring ellipse. You have already demonstrated this, and you pass this exercise. However, you're still a beginner, nobody is asking you to draw these things perfectly right now. It takes time to become accurate.

Plotted perspective: There's no image for your plotted perspective in the album. Did you forget it? You need it to pass the lesson.

Boxes, in general: It's clear that you really struggle with the box exercises. The material really gets dense here, and there are a lot of concepts that may make little sense. It must have felt very frustrating. The good thing is, you don't need to understand all the theory right this moment; these are the kinds of things that you start to understand at least intuitively the more you keep drawing.

Now, I can't exactly tell what was going through your mind while you were going through the lesson 1 exercises, but I can't help but feel that you might be trying to go through them a bit too fast. The remaining space in each page, drawing through ellipses more times than necessary, not quite following the instructions - These all seem to point towards impatience, both in doing the exercises and going through the materials.

The unfortunate reality is, you won't be able to learn to draw by going fast. In fact, even when you finish all the lessons and challenges Drawabox has, you may still not be where you want to be. You cannot learn to draw in a short amount of time. Obviously the time taken varies from person to person, but there is something the everyone who draws well has done, and that is draw a lot, for years. You cannot attain that experience in just one course.

As with learning anything, what you need to do is take your time. The good thing with these exercises is that you don't need to be able to do them well right in this instant. The reason Drawabox has you do this whole submission thing is for you to show that you understand why these exercises exist. Once you have been given the pass, then while doing other lessons, you will do these exercises as a part of your warmup, for 10-15 minutes before each session of study drawing. That's where you'll gain mileage, the same experience that the pros have already done for so long. In addition, there is the 50% rule to follow - you'll draw the same kinds of lines, ellipses and boxes in your own projects, too. This is all here for a reason: For you to gain mileage, experience, repetition, confidence, enjoyment.

Again, I'm not a seer - I can't see if this is exactly why this is happening to you. If it does not resonate, you can forget the above two paragraph entirely, and take it as me being too assuming. Either way, in practice it's quite simple: Follow the instructions, do what's asked of you, to the dot. No more, no less. Trust the process. You have already proven that you can follow instructions, and you can do so with confidence. It's going to be alright, I know you can do this.

With that all said, let's look at what you've managed for the box exercises. You'll need to revise all of them, but we can at least try to see what exactly went wrong, and what went right.

Rough perspective:

• You have drawn the front and back sides mostly rectangular. This is good.

• You have drawn three frames per page. Also good.

• You aren't quite drawing all the lines with as much confidence as before, resulting in misshapen rectangles. Remember, ghost the lines a few times, draw with your shoulder, and don't worry too much if you can't quite hit the end point. Leave it as it is, and move on to the next line.

• You have pinpointed a vanishing point on the horizon line, but the majority of your boxes are not converging towards it. When drawing the sides that are not facing the viewer, you should try to aim towards vanishing point. Use the ghosting method for this: Start from a corner of the box, and ghost towards the vanishing point.

• The line extensions do not follow the boxes' sides, and are not drawn with a ruler. We are trying to converge the boxes towards the vanishing point, and the line extensions are done to see how accurately you have managed it. Again, good accuracy is not how you pass the lesson; understanding and demonstrating that understanding is how.

• You have not drawn enough boxes. There should be 5 - 6 each frame.

Rotated boxes:

• You have gained a bit of your line confidence back. Very good.

• You have drawn through the boxes. This is good.

• You have omitted the squares at the end of each axis. Additionally, the middle square is drawn without a ruler, and the horizontal axis is a little tilting. These serve as guides, to help you finish the exercise.

• On some boxes you have successfully drawn the neighbouring planes snugly together, but on some boxes you have not. Drawing the neighbouring planes is simpler than it seems, as they're essentially just copies of the plane they're next to. There is no need to think about converging at this step.

• You have successfully drawn a little bit of converging on the boxes. For example, when looking from the middle, the front face of the corner box at the top left. This has very good converging. However, on many boxes you have either not done any converging at all or there is too little of it. There is a lot of guesswork that has to be done, but you can take in information from all boxes that are right next to the one you're drawing. Remember, the further away a box is from the middle-most box, the more each side should turn towards the horizontal/vertical line.

• When you do the exercise again and you get to the corner boxes further away from the middle box, drawing through the boxes will get even more confusing. Take your time, and do the best you can at that moment, but do finish the exercise.

Organic perspective:

• On the first page, you have drawn boxes in increasing size as the winding line progresses. Very good!

• You have used the Y-method... At least, it looks so. This is good, if you have.

• You have drawn a good amount of boxes each page. Very good!

• You use an entire page for a frame. It should be three frames per page.

• Most of the time the boxes don't quite converge towards their respective (and unseen) vanishing points. Instead, they diverge, the exact opposite. This is where you need to take it slow: I suggest re-reading the "Negotiating a corner" section thoroughly. You don't need to guess too much, all the information that is needed is in the Y. Don't be afraid of multiple dots while trying to find the proper spot for the corner, but remember, once you draw the line, any opportunity for avoiding a mistake has passed. Whatever comes, leave it as it is, and move on to the next one.

Conclusion:

You start off very strong, drawing confident lines and ellipses. Even in the boxes you keep a little bit of the confidence when focusing only on the lines. You have demonstrated that you can follow the instructions given, but it's clear to me there's a lot going on in your mind that stops you from doing so, and my guess is that you're afraid of the homework looking bad. I've already explained this multiple times, so I'll only say this: Practice makes perfect. Don't worry about it too much.

This means that there are quite a few revisions that you need to do. It may feel frustrating, but ultimately it's a good thing you decided to submit your work anyway. Imagine someone who did all these mistakes, yet went on to the 250 box challenge and on regardless, not realizing that they're practicing to draw things wrong!

Have you checked out the Drawabox Discord? If you have any questions regarding these exercises, there are channels there that are precisely for asking those questions. Don't be afraid to pop in! The community is always ready to help.