Welcome to drawabox, and a big congrats on completing Lesson 1. Let’s see how you did, shall we?

Starting off, your superimposed lines aren’t looking too great. They’re properly lined up at the start, and more smooth than not, but rarely of a consistent trajectory. It’s important to remember that our goal with these exercise – with this course as a whole – is to draw confidently, not accurately. Which is to say, a line that is smooth, but misses its guideline, is correct; one that doesn’t, at the cost of that smoothness, is not. It’s important, also, when you start, to be a little less ambitious. Your arcing lines, specifically, are so complex that even an experienced student would have a hard time with that. It’s hard to tell your brain to ‘not stress about the guideline’ when it’s so elaborate. Your ghosted lines/planes similarly prioritize their accuracy first and foremost. Also, their start/end points are a little large. Remember that the idea is for a perfect line to swallow them both.

The ellipse section, at a glance, shows a similar misunderstanding, unfortunately. Your goal seems to be less the drawing of a smooth, rounded, properly drawn through ellipse, and more the drawing of one that fits snuggly within the confines of its frame, and has its rotations fall snuggly into one another. What’s the purpose of that mark, though? A confident mark can easily be used to convey a solid form (and any accuracy issues are ones we can ignore, or work into our piece). A wobbly mark, on the other hand, will never be able to read as such. To put it into proper perspective, it would’ve been perfectly fine if your ellipses had entirely missed their frames, provided that they were confident, and circular. The ellipses in planes are similar, I’m sorry to say. I will praise you for at least having them maintain a circular shape on most cases (rather than letting them entirely deform in an effort to fill their planes), but they’re still, unfortunately, wobbly. The funnels are more of the same, though there is some improvement here. By the way, try to only make each mark once, regardless of how it turns out. I’m specifically referring to the arcing lines of your funnels, here, but it applies to everything really.

The plotted perspective exercise is strangely scratchy, consider it’s drawn entirely with a ruler – be a little more careful, please.

Leaving aside the automatic reinforcing issues, which we’ve discussed (it’s the bit about only drawing each mark once, and only once), the rough perspective exercise shows some nice improvement throughout the set, if I’m reading the order correctly. However, though the convergences are in a good place by the end, the linework still needs some work. It doesn’t seem to be any worse than the one in the ghosted lines exercise, so I don’t think you’re getting overwhelmed here or anything, but it’s important, nonetheless, to take things slow – one line at a time.

Solid attempt at the rotated boxes exercise. You seem to have forgotten about the reminder boxes we have you draw first (save for one, which you’ve drawn in pencil for some reason?), and you’re missing 2 boxes, still, but I understand – given their neighboring edges, I wouldn’t know what to do with them either, ahah. Still, it’s important to develop a habit of seeing things through to the end. After all, how else will you get an answer to something, but through trying, and seeing what works (and doesn’t!) Anyway, your boxes here are well-constructed, snug, and they do a solid job of rotating, so nicely done.

Finally, save for the scratchy nature of your lines (which I still don’t fully understand the reason behind), the organic perspective exercise doesn’t look bad. You’ve not been very bold with your size, so your boxes are fairly similar in that respect, but the foreshortening is such that there is some suggestion as to their flow.