Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. Your ellipses in funnels are having some issues with tilting off the minor axis. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned This is something you should always start considering when drawing your ellipses. One thing you could have done with these is start with a narrower degree ellipse in the center and then widen the degrees of the ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel. Please check the example here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/step3 Your ellipses are off to a great start but there's still room for improvement when it comes to accuracy so keep practicing them during your warmups.

The plotted perspective looks great, but these were supposed to be laid out with three exercises on one page. Please check the example homework here and this is also stated in the video. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/example Your rough perspective exercise and organic perspective exercises were supposed to be laid out the same way. Please make sure to pay a bit more attention to the homework instructions in the future. Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. You are getting a mix of confident linework here along with some wobble creeping back into some of your lines. This is probably happening because you are more concerned with accuracy now that you are constructing boxes and you are slowing down your stroke to compensate. Try and rely a bit more on the ghosting method and don't worry as much about accuracy. You are doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice. One thing that can help you a bit when doing a one point perspective exercise like this is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be straight up and down. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions. Since you were supposed to filled two pages with multiple exercises and I think you could use more practice with this anyways I'd like you to do one more page of the rough perspective exercise. Try and focus on confident linework and make sure it is laid out correctly with three exercises on one page.

Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty well. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You also did a good job drawing through your boxes but one of the reasons this started to fall apart on you is because you didn't keep your gaps narrow and consistent. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/guessing You are also running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases (very evident on the left side) but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating I do want to mention the added hatching you put in very briefly. Adding hatching is fine but make sure you treat it the same as every other line you draw and ghost it multiple times and draw from your shoulder with confidence. Do the same for added line weight and try not to revert back to using your wrist. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved.

Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. Your box constructions are decent for the most part but there are some wonky ones here and there so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you. Once again, since you were supposed to filled two pages with multiple exercises and I think you could use more practice with this anyways I'd like you to do one more page before moving on.

Overall this was a pretty solid submission besides the layout issues for a few of these exercises. Just make sure to pay a bit more attention to the videos and homework examples in the future. I think your ellipses and line confidence are both coming along quite well. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey fairly well. Once you get those revisions submitted I'll take a look and you can most likely move on to the 250 box challenge.