Hello Tami, welcome to lesson 1 of drawabox!

lines

In this section, you draw your lines with confidence. Your ghosting is good, there is little to no wobbly in the lines.

Though on ghosted planes, when you draw the cross over the X , you've stop placing a starting and ending dot before drawing a line, and it seems you are mostly freehanding the line without ghosting. It important to plot the starting and ending points for any line as to apply the ghosting method. The ghosting method is a fundamental part of Drawabox, and it should not be skipped.

ellipses

Your ellipses table is done very well. The ellipses are drawn over twice and they fit snuggly with each other and within their sections. they are drawn very smooth and confidently.

However in your ellipses in planes exercise, I'm starting to notice a bit of shakiness and hesitation within the lines. This might be because you are drawing bigger ellipses, not fully used to drawing from your shoulder and putting accuracy of hitting the points over confidence of the line. So my advice here is to spent time more ghosting your ellipses. Do it at a speed that's not too fast or slow, where you can internalize what mark you are going to make before making it. If you were ghosting an ellipses 2-3 times before, try to extend that to about 10 times. At this point in time, it doesn't matter if your ellipses overshoot the planes, we striving for a confidence and smooth line above everything else.

Another point is that ellipses look a bit samey here as they are drawn with the same degree, and that's because your ghosted planes are drawn very similar. So for your warm-ups, try draw a different variations of planes. It will result in different degrees of the ellipses when you draw them. Over time with practice, this will build up muscle memory

Your ellipses in funnel exercise seem to suffer from some of the same problems above, so you need to ghost here more as well. Remember to strive more to align your ellipses to the central minor axis line, such that each ellipse is cut into two equal, symmetrical halves. Once again this might be due to ghosting issues.

I also noticed you are changing the degree of ellipses, whether as a mistake or intentionally. As a beginner, I want you to focus on drawing just the same degree of ellipse and only increase it size as you move along the funnel. When you get more comfortable with this, you can begin changing the degree to challenge yourself.

boxes

In your rough perspective exercise, your lines are looking wobbly. When people get to this stage of the lesson, their focus is on making an accurate box then making a good confident line. Try to face every line as it is a ghosted line exercise, without taking into account that it's part of a box. The logic is that by making confident looking lines, you can make confident looking boxes.

I also see that some of your width and height lines are skewed and do not align with either horizon line or the perpendicular line. Unlike the lines, You can put down the two points for making a line, check if they are parallel to the horizon line or the perpendicular line. If they are not, add another point to correct it . You can put down many points until you are satisfied, then you can commit to the actual line!

Another point in your rough perspective exercise, You are not using the entire space that you set. Consistently, you draw your boxes more tightly packed to the center rather then further away from the vanishing point, leaving a lot of white space on the left and right sides that's not filled. For your warm-ups, try push yourself out of comfort zone, and draw boxes further way from the vanishing point in the space you've set. You'll need to begin getting use to this, as for the 250 box challenge, you are going have vanishing points that may not be on the page.

In your organic perspective exercise, The majority of your boxes have y shape with angles more than 90 degrees, which is good because it lead to more accurate boxes . Make sure you consistently strive for both of these in your future warm ups, as it is important for the 250 box exercise.

It's not important at this point in time, but your foreshortening for some of your boxes, especially the ones furthest away from us, are quite dramatic and throws things off. In an exercise like the organic perspective, where it just a bunch of boxes in the scene, using a more shallow foreshortening makes things look consistent.

your rotated box exercise is good, your are rotating the boxes to each of their vanishing points. It would be helpful if you draw crosshatching on the visible parts of the faces on the boxes like in the homework example.

To sum up, for your warm ups:

• draw a variety of different planes with different degree of ellipses.

• practice ghosting so you can internalize what marks you are going to make before you make them.

• In your funnel exercise, remember to strive more to align your ellipses to the central minor axis line,

• Use the entire space of your rough perspective exercise that you've set.

good luck on your drawabox journey!