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

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are well done (though you do have an extra page of them). They’re smooth, and of a consistent trajectory, but not always properly lined up at the start. Remind yourself that speed and confidence are not the same thing! We should draw confidently, we should not draw carelessly. So, see if you can take an extra half a second to line up your pen to the correct starting point each time. The ghosted lines (of which there’s also an extra page – I point this out because we discourage grinding, if you’re wondering) are also well done. I like how boldly you’ll miss some of your end points, with these. The planes, too, are good, but I notice that you’ve not plotted any start/end points for their non-diagonal center lines. Please do, moving forward.

Onto the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise looks great! Your ellipses here are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. I don’t have much in the way of criticism, so I’ll instead give a recommendation: stick to 2 rotations from now on. It should make your mistakes even easier to spot, and you’ll thus be able to take these to the next level. I only notice one page of ellipses in panes (we requested 2), but what is here is well done. Despite these more complicated frames, you’ve done a good job of maintaining the ellipses’ prior smoothness/roundness. The funnels – of which there’s 1 more page than we ask – are well done, also, but I’ll recommend that 1. you draw the arcing lines first, and then the minor axis (that way it’ll always be properly centered), and 2. if there’s no more axis to align your ellipse to, either stop there, or extend the axis, and then add one. An ellipse aligned to nothing is of no use to us in this exercise.

Moving on to the box section, the plotted perspective exercise is a bit of a mess, but I appreciate the experimentation. Just, when you’re drawing things with a ruler especially, try to be clean.

The same can be said for the rough perspective exercise. I’ll accept the pen excuse this time, but know that we prize non-scratchy lines, so either get a new pen, or, if you choose to draw them with your current one, only draw them once, regardless of how (or if) they turn out. Anyway, your boxes here look good, but the correction lines should be a continuation of your existing lines (and extend to the horizon), instead of ignoring them, and extending to the vanishing point. Check the example homework once more.

The rotated boxes exercise is very hard to judge, because of your redrawn lines. For one, I’ll say that the hatching is too much. That bold of a black mark will just draw attention to itself (when, in reality, its purpose is to draw attention away from itself). Beyond that, the boxes look well enough (they’re snug, but they struggle to rotate) to have you move on, so do just that, but consider coming back to this post box challenge.

Save for the linework, the organic perspective boxes exercise looks decent. You’ve been careful about the size of your boxes, but the foreshortening isn’t quite there, because of their often-diverging lines. That, too, is something that we’ll address in the box challenge, so you need not stress about it now.