Hi! I'll be critiquing your work today.

Starting off with the superimposed lines, looking solid. Although I do notice a little fraying at the starting point, keep it in mind to start at the exact point each of the 9 times with this exercise. I get from your line work that you were more confident and free with the longer lines. This might also be due to the fact that we tend to switch to our elbows when the lines are shorter. Remember to trust your whole arm, not just your elbow and wrist. It does arc quite a bit, but all of this is natural since it was only the first exercise. Your accuracy did however improve in the second page, line work looking more confident.

Another thing to keep in mind during this course is that you should take your time with these exercises, don't rush them as this will trouble your output. Moving on to the ghosted lines, your lines look a tad bit wobbly. I'll go ahead and assume you're struggling with line confidence, since you seem to be using your shoulders on the ellipses. You seem to be overshooting and undershooting. Don't focus on getting the points to align as much as you need to focus on putting in a confident stroke. Just ghost, trust in your muscle memory and put down each stroke. After they stop getting wobbly, you can focus on getting the points aligned. After that you can focus on your overshooting/ undershooting. I recommend you read this section: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/levels Then following the steps stated above, move on to this instruction: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/lifthand Your line work on the ellipses makes me envious, good job! I see major improvement with it.

Your ellipse tables look very good, you're using your shoulder and your mark making is confident. However, compared to the tinier ellipses I feel that you put more effort into the larger ellipses since the larger ellipses look smoother. I think this is because you tried using your shoulder on the tinier ellipses. You needn't use your shoulder on the tinier marks you make. Moving on to the ellipse planes, you need to remember that one of the major instructions was to fit the ellipses snugly and touch all FOUR sides. Don't complicate the exercise for yourself, please fit it to all four sides the next time you draw ellipse planes. Besides that you have excellent ellipses in this exercise. With the funnels although, you seem to be prioritizing fitting them in snugly. This is okay when your ellipses are confident, but otherwise please prioritize confidence. Your ellipses are not as smooth in this exercise so you'll need to focus on smoothness and that shines with your confidence.

You shouldn't be adding the line work freehand on the plotted perspective, just keep that in mind. I don't see any visible distortion. The next exercise, rough perspective, was pretty tough and its very common for the line work to turn out less smooth and confident. Just remember to keep the horizontal lines parallel to the horizon line, and the vertical parallel to the vertical lines of the frame. Since the rotated boxes exercise is supposed to throw you to the deep end of the pool, make sure to keep it nice and big as this helps with spatial reasoning. I've been told that you should be better at this exercise once you finish a few more lessons so its nice to come back to it. It looks pretty solid already. The organic perspective got us thinking about convergences, which you'll face in the 250 boxes challenge!

Congrats on completing lesson 1! Starting with your superimposed lines, you could add some variety to your lines. Try doing "C" and "S" curves rather than only doing straights. Your lines are fraying at both ends, take your time when setting down your pen. And while you do have some wobble you are keeping your tapering to the opposite end for the most part. As for your ghosted lines and planes, I'm not too concerned with the lines missing their mark as accuracy will develop over time and they are pretty confident but I am seeing a 1 or 2 wobbles here and there.

Your table of ellipses looks pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through all of your ellipses and you seem to be focused on getting consistent smooth ellipse shape although you still occasionally mess up the angle (the angle of the major axis is inconsistent), positioning (space between ellipses or the border) and size on some ellipses. Your ellipses in planes for the most part this looks pretty good you just have to get a little more consistent than you currently are. Your ellipses in funnels also came out pretty well, all properly aligned, touching with minimal overlapping. But the minor axis should cut them in half neatly.

The plotted perspective looks good although I do want to point out your hatching really quick. If you are going to add hatching try and treat it like any other line you would draw and ghost it multiple times and then draw from your shoulder with confidence. Once again there is some wobble here and there which could be happening either because you are slowing down your stroke for the sake of accuracy or because you have reverted back to drawing with your wrist for the shorter lines. You did a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. I've noticed some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice. Also keep in mind that Drawabox tries to instill in you that each line should be carefully considered and that their are consequences for putting down said lines. We should not be correcting lines in this early stage of learning.

Your rotated box exercises is a little small. Try to draw this nice and big as that helps with thinking through complex spatial problems. You did really well with keeping your gaps fairly consistent. Your organic perspective boxes went well, you're plotting your points and plotting your lines confidently. Again try to avoid redoing lines and prioritize smooth lines over accurate ones.

Overall you did a really good job! I feel that you focus a little too much on accuracy over smoothness in the later parts but by in large the work has been completed and the majority of the instructions have been followed. Your line confidence does seem to be improving and I think your ellipses are also in a good place to build from. Please take note that I am a beginner like you, take this critique with a grain of salt as it is based on my thoughts, this guideline (https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ) and the critiques of drawabox assistants.