Hello, and welcome to drawabox. I’ll be taking a look at your Lesson 1 submission today.

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking solid! They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. You’ve done a good job with your arcing lines, too, though I’d make them a little bigger next time, if possible. Your ghosted lines look quite confident, too, if a little unambitious (read: short). Your planes do a good job of maintaining that same level of confidence, and I’m pleased to see that you didn’t forget to plot start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes (most students do!) Good work on this section.

The table of ellipses exercise look mostly good. Your ellipses are a little same-y (it’s mostly the same 3 degrees and angles, over and over), but what’s here is good. I do suspect that you can push their confidence a little further, if you stress a little bit less about them fitting snuggly within their frames, or their rotations matching up exactly, but either way, you’re on the right track. Do remember that all of your ellipses need a goal, however. Notice how in page 2, row 2, column 2 (the top half) your ellipses float inside of their frame, rather than touching all sides of it? That’s not good. The ellipses in planes show some nice improvement throughout the set. You’re stressing about their accuracy less and less, I notice – this is good. Keep pushing in that direction, because it really isn’t important. What we care about is whether the ellipse is smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. It fitting snuggly inside of the plane, touching its 4 points, or its rotations matching up is beyond secondary. The funnels are well done, if their ellipses a little small. If you’re wondering why I mention size as if it’s a bad thing – here and in the lines section – it’s because it is! The smaller a mark, the harder it is to engage the shoulder for it, so whenever possible, we encourage our students to draw big.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean. The rough perspective exercise starts off strong, and shows some nice improvement throughout the set. I especially love seeing so many unused points on the page – it tells me that you really took your time with your convergences, rather than settling for ‘good enough’. And they’re certainly beyond good enough! Your convergences are on-point, and your linework is quite confident, too. I also appreciate the addition of hatching, which, though unnecessary, cleans things up nicely. Nice work on the rotated boxes exercise. You seem to have forgotten about the reminder boxes, and, perhaps understandably, your boxes don’t rotate as much as we’d like them to, but you’ve kept them mostly snug, so there’s that. This is less the case in the back, but that part is more understandable, so no stress. We’ll be getting into all of this, and more, in the box challenge, so hold out until then. Finally, the organic perspective exercise looks good. Your boxes here are well constructed, and they flow well, as a result of their size, and foreshortening. Nice work, all around!