Hi Milo_999,

I hope you are well.

Just for your info, I've been working through Draw-A-Box for about 14 months now, I'm currently on the 250 Cylinder Challenge. I can only speak from my own experience, but I have definitely seen my drawing improve, though it is a very gradual process. Anyway, I'll go through your exercises and see if I can give constructive feedback.

Super Imposed Lines

These look good, I can see you're drawing from the shoulder and you already have quite a steady hand. Elodin, another DAB community member offered me a great piece of advice to help with the frayed ends of lines... just try slowing down a bit. You're trying to meet that sweet spot of, not too fast, not too slow, so you have better control of your pen.

Ghosted Planes

Good work, you're using the dots/points to plot out the geometry, this gets even more more helpful when you're drawing boxes and you don't yet want to commit to drawing a line.It looks like you're already thinking in these terms, but always try to visualize the planes as they sit in 3D space when you're drawing them, with each set of parallel lines converging to their own vanishing point.

Ghosted Lines

Your accuracy is very impressive with these, there's maybe only a slight wobble. Just remember, prioritize confidence over accuracy in your lines as you draw from the shoulder and accuracy will improve overall with repetition.

Table of Ellipses

Well done on these. You seem to have good control of the space, with most of your ellipses touching the sides of the grid and one another. You're swinging them around twice which is great, means twice the practice.

Ellipses in Planes

These look good, you've managed to keep the ellipses on the plane and touching the sides for the most part.

Ellipses in Funnels

Good work on these, your ellipses are touching the sides of the funnels. Keep an eye on your symmetry, remember equal in all 4 quadrants. A slight variation on this exercise is to vary the degree of the ellipse, getting narrower with each as they approach that central axis (horizon line).

Rough Perspective

What helps me most with this exercise is to ghost my lines a few times (3 or more), back to the vanishing point, before drawing in the line. Just an observation, you're probably better off overshooting your points with a confident line, rather than hitting them dead on with a slight wobble. Again, prioritize confidence over accuracy with your lines. I think this is definitely one of the more useful exercises to practice.

Plotted Perspective

These look good. A note on the hatching though, try to ghost in each line separately and methodically from edge to edge. It takes a lot of time to do it this way, but it will pay off in the long run as you'll be making the most out of every bit of your freehand practice time.

Rotated Boxes

Well done for finishing this, it ain't easy. I've done it 6 or 7 times at this stage and I'm still making a lot of mistakes. For the most part I think you did a great job, but one thing that stands out are your boxes at the top, bottom and sides. If you go back to Uncomfortable's example you can see how his boxes overlap these. That's because what we're looking at are sides of boxes, rotated a quarter of a way around a central axis. I think you probably have a good sense of this, but taking the time to study and refer to the examples as you're working through the exercises really help to keep you on track.

Organic Perspective

Good work with these. Your gradation of scale is impressive with these, I can definitively stand to learn a few things, so thanks for that ???? You could try varying the rotations of the boxes a bit more and again just watch your line work, but otherwise well done.

2 things that really helped me (which I wasn't doing during the first few lessons) The suggested 15 minutes of lesson 1 exercises every day as a warm up before the new exercises from the lesson. And, Uncomfortable's advice to split your drawing time 50-50 is I feel is very important. Work on some other drawing project the other 50% of your time. For me, it's sketching outdoors for fun or working on characters or environments from imagination, whatever you choose, make it something you want to draw.

Keep up the good work and keep on practicing!