Welcome to drawabox, and congrats on completing Lesson 1. Let’s see how you did, shall we?

Starting off, your superimposed lines are well done. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. It does feel like the trajectory is something you stress about more than you should, for sure, but it’s not to the point where it’s a problem yet. Just remember: confidence (so how smooth, and straight your lines are) is something to concern yourself with. Accuracy (how well they stick to the guideline, whether they stop in the right place) is not. Don’t sacrifice the latter for the former! The ghosted lines/planes are mostly good in that sense, too, save for one issue. First, however, let’s talk about your start/end points: they’re too big! Remember that, the idea, is that a perfect line swallows them both. It’s good that they’re so big in this particular instance, however, because it has made it obvious to me that you’re not plotting them for the non-diagonal center lines of the planes. It’s for that reason that those lines are a little wobbly, in comparison. Recall that every mark you make needs start/end points, because every line you make is drawn using the ghosting method.

Moving on to the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise is nicely done. There’s a lot of confidence on display here, and though you don’t nail the mark every time, the attempt is what matters. With regards to you accidentally making contact with the page during the ghosting stage, that’s not a huge problem (if you were stressing about it), but it is something that we’d prefer you to fix, by being a little more deliberate about your motions. Don’t let your own body surprise you, y’know? The ellipses in planes exercise is mostly solid, but it does suffer, a little, when it comes to its confidence. This is not uncommon – students do tend to get overwhelmed, and put their all into having the ellipse fit inside of its frame, or itself – but it is incorrect, so, try to steer things in the direction of confidence, not accuracy, next time. The funnels are nicely done, if (I suspect) a little too quickly drawn. All I’ll say for now, however, is to rotate around them a full 2 times, rather than settling for 1 and change.

The plotted perspective exercise is well done, but you should’ve used a ruler for the hatching lines, too.

The rough perspective exercise is mostly good. Regarding the convergences, they start off strong and show some nice improvement throughout the set. I’d have liked to see a little more care put into the correction lines (they’ll miss, sometimes), but that’s minimal. As for the linework, this too is confident, if a little thick. Likely what’s happening is that you’re feeling the pressure and pressing a little harder on your pen, but there’s no need for it, really – what you’re doing here is no different from what you were doing in the ghosted lines exercise (these lines just add up to something more grand).

The rotated boxes exercise looks solid. It’s a little small (we’ll often encourage our students to draw big, as it’s a great way to give your brain some much-needed room to think), and its boxes struggle to rotate, but you’ve kept them nice and snug. Neither the rotation, nor the snug… uh, ness? snugness? are especially good in the back, but that’s entirely expected, so no reason to stress – we’ll be discussing it in the upcoming box challenge, anyway. For now, this is a perfectly satisfactory attempt, so be proud of it!

In the organic perspective exercise, too, you seem to be pressing a little hard, but beyond that, your boxes are well constructed, and flow well, as a result of their size and foreshortening. As such, I’m happy to mark this lesson as complete.