Hello and welcome to drawabox! I’ll be taking a look at your Lesson 1 submission today.

Starting off, your superimposed lines look great. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Your ghosted lines/planes look quite confident, also. I’m pleased to see that you’ve not forgotten to plot start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes (most students do!) You should try to be a little less conscious of them, however. I say this because, sometimes, your lines will arc to meet them, though our priority lies in them being smooth, and straight, rather than accurate.

The table of ellipses exercise is well done – your ellipses here are smooth, rounded, and, for the most part, properly drawn through. I’ve 2 minor things to point out, here. First, try to draw through your ellipses a full 2 times, rather than settling for 1 and change. Second, see if you can lift, not flick, your pen off the page at the end of your rotations – it’ll get rid of those tails at the end of your ellipses. The ellipses in planes look great; despite the increase in difficulty, as per these new planes, your ellipses maintain their prior smoothness/roundness. The funnels, too, are well done. Do be careful, however, that your minor axis extends all the way through. Or, conversely, if there’s not enough of it left to span a whole other ellipse, don’t add one. An ellipse aligned to nothing is of no use to us.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

The rough perspective exercise starts off strong, and shows some solid improvement throughout the set (except for in the last frame, but I suppose you were excited to finish…) I suppose, if I had to give any advice, it would be to pay a little more attention to the shapes of your planes. If you pay attention to some of your boxes (like, for instance, page 2, frame 3, bottom-left), you’ll notice that their front plane, and back plane, have different shapes (in the aforementioned case, the front plane is a square, and the back plane a rectangle). This should not be the case, however. Since we’re dealing with 1-point perspective, we know that those planes should have the exact same shape, and only differ in their sizes. So, when you’ve got your points down, consider that, before committing to them. If the planes are not identical in shape, then, as you can see the correction lines suggesting to you in the example I brought up, there’s surely been a mistake somewhere.

Solid attempt at the rotated boxes exercise. It’s big, its boxes are snug, and they do a decent job of rotating. There’s some instances, especially in the back, where the rotation of the plane doesn’t match that of its opposite neighbor, but, seeing how you had no other instruction than ‘stick to the neighboring edges’, this is entirely understandable. As we progress through the box challenge, and learn exactly how those front/back planes differ, and how they don’t, you’ll be able to replace a lot of this guesswork with actual knowledge. Until then, this is perfectly fine.

Great job on the organic perspective exercise. Your boxes here are well constructed, and flow quite well, too, as a result of their increase in size, and consistent, shallow foreshortening.