Welcome to drawabox (and nice username!) I’m TA Benj and I’ll be taking a look at your Lesson 1 submission today.

Starting off, your superimposed lines are looking solid. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Your ghosted lines/planes look quite confident, also. Looking at how much ink there is at their starts/ends, I’m going to guess that you’re not maintaining a consistent speed throughout, but rather slowing down at key moments to ensure that the line is as accurate as it can be. This has yet to cause you any problems, but it will, so I recommend ditching it as a habit. It’s more important for our lines to be consistent, than it is for them to be accurate.

Onto the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise looks great. There’s not quite as much variety to the degrees of your ellipses as we’d like (you’ve not gone below 30 degrees), but the ones you’ve focused on are actually the more complicated of the bunch, so I’ll take it. Your ellipses here are smooth, rounded, and for the most part properly drawn through (but try to consistently hit those minimum 2 rotations; don’t settle for 1 and change), so well done. The ellipses in planes look good, also. It’s clear that you’re not especially concerned about their accuracy here – and that’s as it should be! If you have to choose between accuracy and confidence, always choose confidence. The funnels, too, look great. I suspect you’re drawing these a tiny bit faster than you need to, so see if you can’t achieve the same level of confidence, but a greater degree of accuracy, with a slower speed. If not, no worries.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean. The rough perspective exercise looks mostly good. Its convergences start off strong, and show some good improvement throughout the set. Linework, too, is mostly confident, but the automatic reinforcing habit is not something we like to see. If a line comes out wrong, please leave it as such, rather than trying to correct it in a different stroke. Adding more ink to a mistake doesn’t fix it, anyway; it just makes it stand out that much more. Solid attempt at the rotated boxes exercise. It’s big (huge positive!), its boxes are snug, and they do a good job of rotating. They’re a little flat in the back, but that’s entirely normal at this stage, and something that we’ll begin looking into in the box challenge. Speaking of boxes, nice work on the organic perspective exercise. Automatic reinforcing is especially problematic here (because it has a habit of making boxes that you’ve applied it to pop to the front, which is not something we want the smaller boxes to do), but aside from that, your boxes are well constructed, and flow well as per their size and foreshortening. Nice work, and consider this lesson complete.