Welcome to drawabox and congrats on completing Lesson 1. I’m TA Benj and I’ll be taking a look at it for you.

Your superimposed lines start off strong and improve nicely by page 2. Your arcing lines are still a little complex for this stage in the course, but you’ve done well with them. The straight lines are smooth, properly lined up on the left, and of a consistent trajectory – good work. The ghosted lines/planes look confident, and I’m pleased to see that you’ve not forgotten to plot start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes (most students do). The overshooting is not a problem for this stage in the course, so don’t worry about it, but do be mindful that you don’t alter the trajectory of your line to meet your end point. It’s much better to have it miss, but remain straight, usually.

The table of ellipses exercise starts the ellipse section off well. Your ellipses here are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. You’ve got a good variety of degrees/angles here, too, though I’d try some even thinner ones next time. Be careful that you lift your pen off the page at the end of your rotations, however. Right now you’re flicking it, and that’s causing your ellipses to end up with tails of sorts. The ellipses in planes start off a little rough but look better in page 2. Still, even there, you’ll sometimes stress too much about the frame itself, and cause the ellipse to deform in an effort to touch as much of it as possible. It should be the opposite, however! We’re perfectly content with an inaccurate ellipse, provided that it’s smooth and rounded, and an accurate, wobbly or bumpy ellipse is useless to us. The funnels are nicely done. You’ve kept your ellipses here nice and snug, and they’re properly cut in half by their axes. I’d probably skip adding ellipses to the very edge of your funnel, since the arcing lines there are such that you’d have to either draw very large ellipses, or have the ones you draw not properly touch the frame, but it’s not a huge deal either way.

The plotted perspective exercise is nicely done. Your hatching lines here are a little wobbly, and floating inside of their planes, but the boxes themselves look good, and their back lines are correct. The rough perspective exercise looks good by page 2. It’s great to see consistent evidence of you looking at what you’re doing wrong, and addressing it in the following page! The only thing to point out anymore is the angle of your lines. Some of your back lines are not quite parallel/perpendicular to the horizon, and since we’re dealing with 1 point perspective, that doesn’t really make sense! You should be able to tell that that’s how they’ll turn up before you commit to them (this is to say, when they’re still points), so in that case, please give them another look, rather than doubling down. Great work with the rotated boxes exercise. I can see that the outer layer was a bit of a struggle for you, but you did well to push through with it. Ultimately, that’s really what we’re testing here. Not how well the student completes this complicated exercise, but whether they demonstrate a certain degree of boldness in pushing forward when they’re unsure. Keep this up! Finally, the organic perspective boxes are well done (save for the hatching lines, but we’ve discussed those! But just to be safe, please treat them as if they’re proper ghosted lines. Extend them from edge to edge, and focus on drawing them confidently!) They’re all of them well constructed, and flow well as a result of their size and foreshortening. Great work!