Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on completing Lesson 1. Let’s take a look at it, shall we?

Starting off, your superimposed lines are mostly good – they’re smooth, and properly lined up at the start, but not always of a consistent trajectory. Be mindful of that. It’s more important for our lines to be smooth, and straight, than it is for them to stick to the guideline. Your ghosted lines/planes look quite confident too, and I’m pleased to see how many of the latter you’ve drawn. I’m, also, especially happy to see that you’ve not forgotten to plot start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes (most students do!)

Onto the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise looks not bad. I suspect – it’s hard to tell for sure because your pages are a little blurry – but I suspect that you’re a little more focused on accuracy here than you need to be. So, just to be safe, I’ll remind you that, as with your lines, it’s more important for your marks here to be confident, than accurate. Specifically, we’re trying to make it so that our ellipses are smooth and rounded first, and anything else – such as how snug they are against their frames, or how well their rotations match – is secondary, if at all relevant. The ellipses in planes look a little better in that respect, but still need a little work. Here, try to be consistent regarding the number of times that you rotate around them. In other words, this should be something that you decide beforehand, rather than adding more rotations if it looks like you got the first two wrong, or settling for 2 if they’re looking good. The ellipses in the funnels exercise struggle with their confidence too, a little but this is understandable, as, for this exercise, there’s a lot of things that we ask you to keep in mind. Beyond that, your ellipses are snug, and properly cut in half, so no stress, anyway.

As for the box section, the plotted perspective exercise looks clean. The rough perspective exercise looks good. Your boxes are a little small (it’s a common thing for students to do – to draw small when they feel overwhelmed – but actually the opposite is helpful: draw big, and you’ll find yourself able to think much more freely than before), but their convergences are solid. Your linework is a little mixed. The lines themselves are well done, but there’s some automatic reinforcing present, that I’ll caution you against. Each line is to be drawn once, and only once, regardless of how it turns out. The rotated boxes exercise… is interesting. I certainly don’t like seeing the pencil, especially on the boxes themselves, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that the reminder boxes are all you drew with pencil. (And we won’t get into the whole thing about how it would’ve been perfectly fine for those boxes to have been placed ‘incorrectly’, with ink, and how you’re feeding into a bad habit by drawing them in pencil, because you already know that!) Instead, I’ll say that your boxes are big, snug, and, though slightly, doing a decent job of rotating. Things aren’t quite as good around back (their far planes, and depth lines), but that’s entirely expected, and something that we get into in the box challenge, so hold out until then! The organic perspective exercise is nicely done. You’ve got a lot of boxes here, and they flow fairly well as a result of their overlaps. That said, be careful that a box that overlaps another doesn’t hide its lines! Also, I notice that you’ll sometimes extend a line that stops short in a separate stroke – that also counts as automatic reinforcing, so try to avoid that if you can. Other than that, nice work!