Hi, I'm Nobody, and I'll be covering your submission critique. Note that I'll be using Elodin's notes on marking Lesson 1 submissions as a checklist. My criteria for rejecting a submission is when a section has not been satisfactorily completed, which I consider to be when a third or more of the mistakes in Elodin's notes have been made across more than a quarter of that assignment, or when the mistake appears consistently throughout the submission.

With that said, let's get started.

Lines

Superimposed Lines

Your superimposed lines look good. I can't see any signs of fraying at both ends, and there's only one line with any wobble at all. One thing that does concern me is that there's some arching here, though it appears not to be the sort that's indicative of drawing from the wrist. Given that your Ghosted Lines and Planes don't show any signs of arching, I'll take that to be indicative of lack of practice and something that'll straighten itself out over time.

Ghosted Lines

Not much to say here, other than they're good. The lines themselves are smoothly and confidently drawn without arching, and you don't seem to have attempted to repeated lines that you've erred on, which is good.

Ghosted Planes

Again, not much to say here, these are also good. But something that I thought I should point out is that in your first page of the exercise, you've attempted to construct the planes by connecting where some of your lines terminate instead of the laid out endpoint. This is less than ideal, because your targets are not to "construct a closed plane", but rather to "draw four ghosted lines that end up enclosing a plane". You're not trying to construct a plane, you're drawing four lines that just happen to enclose a plane, and by aiming to connect the lines instead of targeting the points you undermine the importance of those points and the planning stage. It's better to have a plane that isn't perfect than to have undermined the process. That said, this is just an observation and not a mistake, so I'll consider this exercise completed.

All in all, Lines is cleared.

Ellipses

Taking a step out to talk about a persistent mistake, you don't draw through the Ellipses. This is a critical part of this section, and regardless of your skill level, skipping out on it can be harmful to your getting everything out of this part of the lesson. Additionally, this results in you also performing some other mistakes in this section.

Table of Ellipses

Your ellipses, while drawn confidently, suffer from deformation and occasionally fail to touch the sides of the box/neighboring ellipse, or go over their bounds. The remedy for both is the same, draw over the ellipse two to three times (that is, draw the ellipse, and then continue the motion twice or thrice through the ellipse before lifting your pen).

Ellipses in Planes

While you've drawn confidently, because you haven't drawn through the ellipses, your ellipses end up deformed where you try to correct the ellipse.

Ellipses in Funnels

While you've aligned your ellipses to the center line about half the times, your ellipses tend to go out of bounds fairly often, and it's hard to tell if it's because of an unintentional jerk or because it's a failure of planning. Again, this is a mistake born of not drawing through your ellipses.

All in all, Ellipses needs to be redone.

Boxes

Plotted Perspective

First of all, you've done fairly well here, but the one mistake you've made consistently is the failure to fully draw through the rear side of the box—remember, boxes in this exercise should have four lines perpendicular to the horizon line, and you've mostly drawn through the three that are visible from the front, but not the last one that's often hidden from sight. You should probably redo this exercise as well, as drawing the far side of the box is important in understanding the box in three-dimensional space.

Rough Perspective

This one is good. Your lines occasionally fail to align to the horizon line properly (as in, your height lines are occasionally not perpendicular to the horizon line, and your width lines occasionally aren't parallel to the horizon), but as this was not only unintentional, this mistake is practically unavoidable in the start and will fade out as you continue to warmup using the exercise, I'll consider it minor. Also, I'm glad to see that you're doing the ghosting methodology, it's practically intrinsic to the exercise.

Rotated Boxes

Ah yes, the rotated boxes exercise. If the 250 Boxes exercise is the crucible, then this is the Wakeup Boss of Lesson 1. Your goal isn't perfection, but to minimize your mistakes, and in that you've done a good job. You've kept your edges close, and at least tried to rotate your boxes. Some of your boxes aren't fully rotated, but on the whole you've done a good job, and I'll call this part done.

Organic Perspective

I'm not comfortable being overly critical here, because the big mistakes here are all about perspective and that's something you'll automatically correct by the end of 250 Boxes. That said, I will comment that you've consistently made the mistake of making the closer end of the box smaller than the farther end, which results in deformed looking boxes. Remember, lines converge away from the front face when foreshortened.

All in all, Boxes is mostly cleared.

Let me make a correction, you only need to redo the Ellipses section. No need to redo the entire Plotted Perspective exercise.

Also, the reason why I'm asking you to draw through the ellipses is because your first pass is always terrible. As per Uncomfortable, your arm hasn't had the opportunity to fully understand the task it's been assigned on the first pass, resulting in a wonky and deformed ellipse. Its only in the second and third pass that your arm gets fully into the swing of things and can get to meet its full potential. Essentially, your first pass is maybe 60% of your actual capability, your second pass pushes it up to 85%, and the third one lets you get all the way to 97%. You could probably squeeze out maybe one or two more percent of ability by repeatedly going over the ellipse, but by that point you've made a mess. It's best to stop after two passes, because that both preserves the initial elliptical shape while allowing you to realize the majority of your potential.