Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. My name is Rob and I'm a teaching assistant for Drawabox who will be handling your lesson one critique. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start but please do not submit homework that is drawn over for future submissions. Since this is the very first exercise it's fine but you will be asked to redo it on future submissions.. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.

Your tables of ellipses are coming along well. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on a consistent smooth ellipse shape. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes although you are deforming some of your ellipses at times. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/deformed You are compromising your overall ellipse shape by adjusting for accuracy midstroke. Try and rely a bit more on the muscle memory of the motion you build up while ghosting and almost make your mark without thinking. This will be less accurate at first. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come through mileage and consistent practice more than anything. Your ellipses in funnels are having the same issues and you are also tilting your ellipses off the minor axis at times. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/14/notaligned This is something you should always consider when drawing your ellipses. There is plenty of room for improvement when it comes to your ellipses both in terms of overall consistency of shape and accuracy so make sure you keep practicing these in your warmups as they can take a while to get used to.

The first plotted perspective was very clearly rushed but the revision looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspective exercises turned out decently. You are getting a mix of confident linework here along with some wobble creeping back into some of your lines. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/wobbling This is probably happening because you are more concerned with accuracy now that you are constructing boxes and you are slowing down your stroke to compensate. That hesitation because of your concern for accuracy while making your mark is what is reintroducing the wobble into your lines. Try and rely a bit more on the muscle memory you build up while ghosting your mark and almost make your mark without thinking. This will be less accurate at first but will give you consistently smooth and confident linework which is our first priority. Accuracy will come with mileage and can't really be forced. I am noticing that you are redrawing lines on occasion and this is a habit you should try and get out of. Try and stick with the initial line you put down even if it's a bit off. Adding more lines just makes things messier and harder to read. You are doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice. One thing that can help you a bit when doing a one point perspective exercise like this is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be perpendicular(straight up and down in this case) to the horizon line. This will help you avoid some of the slanting lines you have in your constructions.

Your rotated box exercise feels a bit rushed. One thing that would have helped you here would have been to just draw this a bit bigger. Drawing bigger really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. Youdid a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. The main issue here though is that you drew this too small overall and left some of the corners unfinished. So as a revision I'd like you to give this exercise one more shot and make sure it you draw it bigger overall and finish the entire the thing. Another slight issue I'm noticing is that you scribbled in some of hatch marks. Adding in hatch marks is fine but make sure you ghost them just like any other line you would draw for these lessons. You should never be mindlessly scribbling in lines for any of these exercises. Every line should be planned and deliberate. A big part of learning how to draw is getting used to working outside of your comfort zone. Your organic perspective exercises are looking okay. While you have some confident lines here you are getting some wobbly linework happening throughout this exercise and you are also redrawing lines quite a bit. I'm not going to assign a revision for this but line confidence is definitely something you need to work on during your warmups and the 250 box challenge. Your box constructions are decent and you are definitely understanding that box lines need to converge to vps but there are wonky convergences throughout so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you keep practicing this and to work on line confidence.

Overall this was a solid submission that showed a nice deal of growth. Your line confidence and ellipses both showed signs of improvement as you worked through these exercises but keep working on them during your warmups. Otherwise, I think you are understanding most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey quite well. Once you get that revision submitted I'll take a look and you can most likely move on to the 250 box challenge.