Congratulations Candlelight upon finishing lesson 1's exercises! I'll go through critiques of your exercises and some things I

could add.

LINES

Your lines doesn't tell any fatal mistakes, in fact it's quite confident which is good and important (bonus points) - but some of your Superimposed Lines are fraying on both sides especially the curved ones. Ghosted Lines doesn't break any thumb rule but it's messy and could be better.

What I take and could assume from what I see is that you should be more mindful about each drawn line. It's not a technical problem of your lines not good enough, but the intention that came before it. Ghost it and seamlessly draw the line. It takes time but it'll be good for a long term and you'll get used to it and get faster (just don't get complacent).

Your lines after some of these are improving so, take that as my advice to reinforce what you are doing is right already. :)

The Ghosted Planes has a few arching lines, make sure to do the opposite lining of your habitual arching to counteract this. Other than that it's solid.

ELLIPSES

Ellipses are well done generally. Ellipses in Tables are kept within bounds relatively well. Ellipses in Planes is a bit sketchy, figuratively and literally - you seem to struggle with bigger ellipses. Some of them looks like it's drawn more than the standard average (which is 2 - 3 times). Refrain from doing this in Draw A Box lessons.

To fix the bigger ellipses there's no secret advice to this other than almost the exact same advice I gave regarding the LINES. To repeat and add what I said, to take your time, ghost those ellipses and use your **shoulders*** - it's especially important for bigger ellipses.

Assuming you are already using your shoulders for most of your exercises, you are going to the right way. If not, I suggest redoing some of these exercises as warm ups with your shoulders on to the next lesson.

Ellipses in Funnels are well done, one might add is that it's a bit everywhere - try to be more neater in the future since it's easier to read and could make awkward situation with other critiques and it's a good quality to have for anyone anyway.

BOXES

Plotted Perspective is well done. Be more careful of the line weight application.

Rough Perspective is good, width lines are parallel to the horizon and height lines are perpendicular and you remembered to plot it back to the vanishing point as a correction.

Rotated Boxes while may not look pretty doesn't violate too much in what DaB is trying to convey. One thing to keep in mind is corners between boxes should be kept closer (as Uncomfy says it should be the reference line for the other boxes too).

Organic Perspective pursuits are to make you learn the illusion of drawing perspective. Here, some of them are evident to have them, some are a bit sketchy and messy as how it portrays. Some boxes are too big, some pages have too many crowded boxes. My advice is try to plan ahead more on what you want to draw so it doesn't ruin your illusion. But overall its done its job good.