Welcome to drawabox, and a big congrats on completing Lesson 1. I’m TA Benj, and I’ll be going over it for you.

Starting with your superimposed lines, these look fantastic. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Your ghosted lines/planes look quite confident (and clean!), too, and I’m pleased to see that you’ve not forgotten to plot start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes. That said, the reason I can tell this is because your points are a little too big. Remember that a perfect line is meant to swallow them both – at least, that’s the idea.

Onto the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise is nicely done. There’s not a great degree of variety here, as far as their degrees are concerned (it seems to be the same 3, over and over), but what is here looks solid: smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. The ellipses in planes, too, look solid. I’m especially pleased to see that you’ve kept our priorities in mind here, too; despite these more complicated frames, the ellipses here do a solid job of maintaining their prior smoothness/roundness. Finally, good work on the funnels. There’s the occasional wobbly ellipse here, sure, but I expect that that’s mostly due to their size (the smaller a mark, the harder it is to engage the shoulder for it), so no stress. Just try to draw a little bigger next time.

As for the box section, the plotted perspective exercise starts things off strong – I’m pleased to see your willingness to experiment, here. The rough perspective exercise, too, shows a solid start, and improves throughout the set. By the end, your linework is confident, and your convergences on-point – I have nothing critical to say about it. Great work on the rotated boxes exercise, too! I’m especially pleased to see how clean your work here is. It’s well done, also; your boxes are well constructed, snug, and do a good job of rotating. Good on you for showing improvement in every quadrant, rather than having them all mirror each other! You’ve been careful with your boxes in the back, too – their far planes also rotate, and their depth lines are mostly correct. Of course, that’s way beyond the scope of the exercise, but you’re in a good place, starting the box challenge a little further ahead than most! Speaking of boxes, the organic perspective exercise is well done! Your boxes look good, and flow well, as a result of their size, and foreshortening. I do wonder at their overshooting lines, however. Could it be that you’re not plotting start/end points for these? I see some, but it could be the mark made by the pen when you stop it, also, so I thought I’d confirm. If not, please do, moving forward. Otherwise, use the box challenge as an excuse to fix the overshooting issues, too.