Hey hey! And congrats on completing lesson one. Name’s Ana not that it matters but me thought it be fun to know. 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, and the lines don't wobble; they are smooth and confident!

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 looking fine. I'm not seeing any real issues here. 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/1/18/step3 This helps with practicing different degrees of ellipses. 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 good, not much I can comment on. You understood the assignment and did it well! Your rough perspective exercises turned out pretty good. It's great that you are keeping up with the confident linework on these, they don't wobble and dont arch. However I did notice that you don't always draw a line through both of the dots you placed, which does not happen in the previous exercises of the ghosted planes and lines. Which might be a sign of being a bit “afraid” of fully committing to the line and stop earlier than intended. Nothing too major as you still do it confidently but it is something to keep in mind, the level 2 segment of this video might help https://youtu.be/o1HAVipdsZM?si=8iggFv5vim9-fOUm

You are also doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. Most of the lines were quite close to the vanishing point and that will only improve with time. 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 perpendicular(straight up and down in this case) to the horizon line. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.

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 and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. 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/1/21/notrotating While the rotations here aren't perfect this was a good effort overall. The more you draw and develop your spatial thinking ability the easier these rotations are to handle. 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 look good! You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is great. Still that minor issue of the lines not always going through the dots shows up again but in a lesser frequency than with the plotted perspective exercise. So while it is something to keep in mind great that it showed up less in an exercise that most would consider more anxiety inducing than the plotted perspective. Good increase in confidence! Your box constructions are improving as you work through this exercise and I can see you are developing a good sense for how box lines converge to vps. There are still some wonky convergences here and there so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.

Overall this was a really solid submission that showed a good deal of growth. Your line confidence and ellipses are both coming along nicely. I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work!

Hey there,congrats on finishing lesson 1! I am Paradosso and i will be critiquing your work today:

• SUPERIMPOSED LINES: overall pretty good. The straight lines are ok and have fraying only on one side, i'd practice the curved ones a bit more though since they have fraying on both sides, make sure to watch out for that in your warmups.

• GHOSTED LINES: overall ok as well. You hit level 2 consistently. I notice that your lines tend to arch a bit, this can be caused by either 2 things:

1) not using your shoulder pivot, if that's the case make sure to use your whole arm while doing long strokes, we are prioritizing flow over accuracy so don't worry if you overshoot or undershoot

2) your brain thinks that curved=straight, if this is the case then i suggest consciously trying and arch a bit in the opposite direction when ghosting, that way your brain will slowly rewire and understand that curved is not straight.

• GHOSTED PLANES/ELLIPSES IN PLANES: you can refer to what i sajd for the ghosted lines paragraph but i can already see a major improvement in your line quality. As for the ellipses they are very well executed with only a few being uneven, you've put confidence as your main concern and that's good. The accuracy part... warmups will take care of that.

• TABLE OF ELLIPSES: overall a solid page, you have made an effort to make them snuggle all together and a gold chunk are done confidently. Some are really wobbly though so watch out for that in your warmups session.

• FUNNELS: pretty confident, snuggle together pretty well and you have tried hard to align all of them to the minor axis, nothing to comment on.

• PLOTTED PERSPECTIVE: nothing to report although some hatching would have helped since it gets pretty chaotic.

• ROUGH PERSPECTIVE: the line extension is done well and all the lines are perpendicular-ish to the horizon so there's also no guesswork done. The main problem ks the execution of the ghosting method. This exercise is pretty frustrating so it's common to be overwhelmed a bit. When doing it as a warmup make sure to take your time when ghosting and if you get tired take breaks :)

• ROTATED BOXES: the linework is really well made, this exercise is by far the hardest of lesson 1 so it's completely normal to feel extremely stressed when tackling it, a few things to note

1) the faces on the ground do not rotate and converge to the same vp (for example, look at the ones on the horizontal and vertical line)

2) some boxes rotate weirdly (for example look at the box in the upper middle column on the right)

• ORGANIC PERSPECTIVE: aside from the already mentioned ghosting the only thing i want to point out is the size of the boxes, when tackling is as a warmup make sure to do different box sizes (smaller when farther away and bigger when closer), draw the back corner as an extra challenge and add hatching lines to one of the faces.

CONCLUSION: you can go to the 250 box challenge, make sure to do these exercises as warmups, have a good day :).

• PARADOSSO