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. That said I'm seeing something a bit concerning with your lines exercises here that is continuing through all of the box exercises as well. You are ALWAYS redrawing your lines which is a bad habit that you need to get out of. Partially because in some cases it's destroying the intially confident line you put down and in a lot cases here it's just making things harder to read overall. You really need to try and get used to putting down a single confident line and sticking with it.

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 looking fine but half of these are laid out incorrectly. Please follow the exercise layouts exactly as shown. For a lot of these you simply put down a center line and then didn't include the funnel on the sides. Your ellipses are off to a great start but there's still room for improvement so keep practicing them during your warmups.

The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises are having some issues with linework that I touched on previously. As I mentioned previously you do appear to be putting down a confident line initally but then you are destorying it by redrawing the lines multiple times and often times reverting back to using your wrist while doing so which is add wobble to an initially confident line. The other big problem here is that you didn't extend the depth lines back on your boxes to check your work. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/step6 So as a revision I'd like you to do two more pages of this exercise. This time no redrawing lines or adding line weight. Just put down a confident and stick with it. Also make sure to extend the depth lines on your boxes to check your work. One more thing I'd like to discuss is your hatching on the front planes of the box. If you want to add hatching that's fine but you need to treat it the same as every other line you would draw for these lessons. Ghost it multiple times and then draw from your shoulder with confidence. You should never mindlessly be scribbling in lines for any of these exercises for any of these lessons. Every mark should be thought through.

Your rotated box exercise turned out decently. 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 and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. Once again the redrawing lines is a real issue here. You are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/17/notrotating You also left the top row of this exercise and the corners blank for some reason. The corners I can understand as you might have difficulty understanding the rotation on those but there is really no reason for not finishing the top row. I'm not going to assign a revision here but make sure you fully complete each exercise even if you don't fully understand it as learning how to draw is a lot about getting used to working outside of your comfort zone. 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 and there are a lot less redrawn lines here overall which is a massive improvement and you can clearly see how much cleaner your work is here. Your box constructions are pretty solid for the most and you seem to have a good understanding of how box lines need to converge to vps.

Overall this was a pretty good submission that showed good growth. Your ellipses are coming along quite well and your line confidence did improve quite a bit with the organic perspective exercise although you are still redrawing lines quite often and that is a habit you need to get out of. So as a revision I'd like you to redo both pages of the rough perspective exercise. Focus on confident linework. No added line weight or redrawing lines. Once you get that submitted I'll take a look and you can most likely move on to the 250 box challenge.