Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on completing Lesson 1 – let’s see how you did!

Starting off, your superimposed lines look mostly good. They’re generally smooth, and properly lined up at the start, but you’ll sometimes stress about their trajectory – don’t. The ghosted lines/planes are mostly confident, save for at their ends. Likely, you’re slowing down, as you approach your end points, in an effort to not overshoot, but this is causing your lines to wobble, so it’s not recommended. Recall that the line being confident is more important than the line being accurate. Also, remember that all of your lines need start/end points – this includes the non-diagonal center lines of your planes.

The table of ellipses exercise looks mostly good – it’s clear that you’re pushing for confidence, here, but I think you could stand to push it just a bit further. Be especially careful – but also don’t stress, as they’re notoriously annoying – about the small ellipses; draw them from your shoulder, aiming for them to be smooth, and rounded, first and foremost. Pay similar attention to some of the thinner ellipses, as you’ll, for them, sometimes revert to your wrist, without intending to. The ellipses in planes are nicely done, for the most part. Occasionally they’ll dip in confidence, as you stress about the frame – don’t. The instances where the ellipses overshoot the frame, but are smooth, are the ones to aim for. The funnels look alright, if a little lacking in variety. Here, too, however, you’ve been a little too focused on accuracy, particularly in the first rotation. Ghost until ready, so that there’s no such hesitation.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

A couple of quick notes about the rough perspective exercise. First, extend your correction lines till the horizon, and stop there – don’t extend them till they intersect, or continue them beyond the horizon; simply mimic what we’ve done in the example homework. Also, try not to stress about your linework, here. Though the big picture is different, there’s really no difference (as far as the way they’re drawn, I mean) between these lines, and the ones in the ghosted lines exercise. If they can be confident there, they can be confident here, too. With those out of the way, this exercise is well done; your linework is, save for that small issue, solid, and your convergences show proper planning, and some nice improvement throughout the set.

Nice job on the rotated boxes exercise. It’s big (though it could be even bigger!), its boxes are snug, and properly rotating. You’ve kept those points in mind for the far planes of your boxes, also, and even the depth lines look mostly alright. Of course, at this stage this is mostly guesswork, but that’s perfectly fine. Right now, we simply want to offer you a quick introduction to 3-point perspective, and perhaps inspire some questions, that we’ll then proceed to answer in the box challenge – look forward to it.

Speaking of boxes, though it’s a little barren, the organic perspective exercise is nicely done. Your boxes are, more often than not, well-constructed, and their size and foreshortening do a lot to suggest the flow we’re after. Looking at the overshooting, however, I find myself wonder if here, also, you’ve not forgotten to plot start/end points for your lines. If so, please remember to - all lines need those.