Welcome to drawabox; I’ll be taking a look at your lesson 1 submission today.

Starting off, your superimposed lines are confident, and properly lined up at the start, but not always of a consistent trajectory – be mindful of that. I notice that your ghosted lines have some course-correction at the end, too. What’s likely happening is that you’re becoming a little too conscious of the end point, altering the trajectory of the line as you notice it going off in the wrong direction, or stopping short of, or overshooting the point. This is incorrect. What matters is that the resulting line is smooth, and straight. One more thing you may consider doing is plotting start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes.

The table of ellipses exercise is mostly good. Your ellipses are, at times, a little wobbly, but this seems to be the exception rather than the rule. Most of them are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. Still, try not to go on auto-pilot. The ellipses in planes exercise is similar – the majority of it looks good, but you’ll occasionally panic, and prioritize accuracy over smoothness, creating an ellipse that’s bumpy. As you’d expect, this is the opposite of what we want. Your funnels show a hint of this, as well, but the majority of them look solid, and they’re all properly cut into two equal, symmetrical halves by their respective axes – keep it up.

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

The convergences of the rough perspective exercise show some serious improvement throughout the set. The linework, does not. Remember that, regardless of the big picture, what you’re doing here boils down to drawing a single line, from point A to point B, over and over again. Try not to get overwhelmed.

Despite a similar lack of confidence, the rotated boxes exercise looks good. It’s decently sized (though it could be a lot bigger – something that would result in your brain having a lot more room to think, and relax), its boxes are snug, and properly rotating. Not to worry, by the way: the extremes will fall into place as you make some progress in the box challenge. For now, we just want you to do your best with what you’ve been given; i.e., keep those lines snug.

For the organic perspective exercise, I notice that you’ve not plotted any start/end points for your lines. Often, they’ll stop short, and you’ll continue them in a different stroke. This is incorrect. You’ll remember from the instructions in the ghosted lines section that each line is to be drawn once, and only once, regardless of how it turns out. Aside from this, however, the boxes look good, as per their proper increase in size, and consistent, shallow foreshortening.