Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

2:33 AM, Sunday April 12th 2026

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Hi, I realized I did mess up once on a few exercises, but hopefully that won't affect the grading. Thanks for your help!!

8:26 AM, Monday April 13th 2026

Welcome and congrats on completing Lesson 1 of Drawabox! I’m Mada and I’ll be reviewing your submission here.

You’ve done a great job, though there are a few points worth going over. I'll be highlighting important things in bold for you to easily refer to.

Lines

Your superimposed lines have no problems here. The ghosted lines and planes are also clearly planned out and executed with confidence with very little arching. Some sways and inaccuracies are of course expected, but this is something you'll need to keep doing with your warmups.

Ellipses

In the tables of ellipses, you showed a clear understanding of how to draw them smoothly and confidently. I can see that you're not having much problem with your ellipses in planes either.

Your funnels are also well done; they’re aligned properly to the minor axis and fit snugly within the guideline. Nothing much to mention here as your skills (in confidence and accuracy) will naturally improve with more practice. This is optional as an extra challenge, but you can try varying the degrees of your ellipses as they move outward in your warmups as mentioned here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/step3.

Boxes

The plotted perspective exercise is done correctly and shows that you clearly understand 2 point perspective aside from a few skewed lines.

You’ve applied the ghosting method and line extensions properly in the rough perspective. The front and back faces are also rectangular, which is exactly what we want in 1 point perspective. Try to make bigger boxes and even ones that overlap with the horizon line; there are also boxes that exist in this perspective.

You're doing very well with the rotated boxes so far. You've made the lines converge as they go further to the side, which correctly creates that sense of rotation. The main goal of this exercise is focused around using that rotation and neighboring elements to deduce the placement for the next boxes, which you've executed well here. However, the more immediate problem is that you forgot to draw in the boxes at each corner (you're missing 16 boxes specifically; refer to the example here: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/21/example). It might not seem much, but we'd like you to finish each exercise to its utmost completion and benefit, especially when the corner boxes will give you the most challenge!

Finally, your organic perspective also looks great. The boxes feel like they exist in the same space, and the lines converge as they move away from the viewer. Some boxes look a little wonky with their perspective, but this is exactly the main thing we'll train during the box challenge.

Before moving on to the box challenge, I'd still like you to first finish the rotated boxes as mentioned above. Make sure to apply both concepts of rotation and neighboring elements as best as you can, and reply directly to this feedback so I can be notified.

Next Steps:

Finish the Rotated Boxes exercise (the missing 16 boxes; refer to the example).

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
9:21 PM, Monday April 13th 2026
edited at 9:23 PM, Apr 13th 2026

Hi, thank you for your feedback! I've done the corner quadrants here. Some of the boxes that I made (especially the corner boxes) were extremely small and warped. I'm not sure why, maybe it's because I foreshortened some edges a bit too dramatically?

I was also not consistent with my foreshortening between all 4 quadrants, but I tried to work with it. I hope this is good enough!

edited at 9:23 PM, Apr 13th 2026
7:28 AM, Wednesday April 15th 2026

Thank you for submitting your revision! You've done a great job at applying both concepts of rotation and neighboring elements with the rest of the boxes. I believe you'll be able to improve more as you go through the box challenge. Remember to keep working on your lines & ellipses confidence. Congratulations and keep up the good work!

Next Steps:

Move onto the 250 box challenge.

Do the lesson 1 exercises as your regular warmup and don't forget your 50% rule art.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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