Hello! Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on completing lesson 1. I’ll be looking over it.

Starting with your superimposed lines, these look really good. They’re smooth, and properly lined up at the start, though you’ll occasionally alter their trajectory – be mindful of that. The ghosted lines/planes look decent, if a little insecure. On top of a longer time spent ghosting, I’ll recommend you be a little less conscious of the ending point. Right now, you’re decreasing your speed as you approach it, in an effort to not stop short of, or overshoot it. This is incorrect, however, as it’s leading to your lines becoming wobbly. A smooth, straight line is far preferable to one that replaces those qualities for accuracy.

The ellipses are fairly solid, though at times a little stiff. Here, too, ghost until ready, then commit. Any earlier, and your insecurity will be reflected on your linework. Further advice: be mindful of your pivot (always check back to make sure that it’s the shoulder), and, rather than flicking it, see if you can lift your pen off the page at the end of your rotations. The ellipses in planes push that stiffness even further, unfortunately, likely as a result of a greater-than-necessary focus on accuracy – though they do look a lot better by page 2. Continue pushing in that direction. The funnels look a little mixed. The ellipses are snug, and properly cut in half by their respective axes, for the most part, but a little egg-shaped, and decreasing, rather than increasing in degree as they move away from the center. It seems like, overall, this section needs a lot more ghosting out of you.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean – nice job.

I have mostly good things to say about your rough perspective exercise: you’ve taken your time, planning every line, and as a result, they converge quite successfully. The occasional wobbly line, and automatic reinforcing are the only, admittedly not small, issues I notice. For the former, remind yourself that what you’re doing here is no different from what you were doing in earlier sections, and if your lines could be confident there, they can be confident here, too. For the latter, simply remember that you may only draw each line once regardless of how it turns out.

Solid attempt at the rotated boxes exercise. It’s missing the 4 diagonal boxes, are snug, and properly drawn through. They don’t quite rotate – both up front, and in the back – and you’ll sometimes prioritize a line that’s snug to its neighbor, rather than one that’s correct, but this is perfectly understandable at this stage. As you progress through the box challenge, and learn more about how their lines should behave, feel free to revisit this, and trust your knowledge, more so than the template.

Despite a sometimes-inconsistent increase in size, the organic perspective exercise is well done. The consistent, shallow foreshortening, and the sheer number of boxes and their overlaps, do a lot to sell the illusion. (As would have some lineweight, to clarify said overlaps, but that’s okay!)