Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.

Typically we don't accept work that was completed before the student received the go ahead from their previous submission. With the box challenge we don't want students to redo the entire thing so we normally ask for an additional 50 boxes. I won't be asking you to complete them and re-submit since you've already submitted, but if you've already worked further ahead into lesson 2 while waiting on your critique for this challenge I'll be asking you to restart it whenever you get the approval to move on from this submission.

Not only does the challenge help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. That being said I'll try to keep this critique fairly brief so you can get working on the next steps as soon as possible.

Things you did well:

• You're doing a good job of experimenting with orientations. Experimenting is an important habit to build when learning any new skill, it helps form a more well rounded understanding. I hope you'll continue to display and nurture this habit in the future.

Things you can work on:

• You have some noticeable wobbling occuring in your lines. Remember that line confidence is our top priority and that accuracy will improve as we continue to build up more mileage.

• You're also re-drawing a lot which is a bad habit that I'd like to discourage you from continuing in the future. Part of why we work with ink is so that we have to work with and learn from our mistakes. Take your time to ghost your lines and then draw them as confidently as possible, doing your best to prevent mistakes in the first place. Any that are made from that point you should work with. Re-drawing doesn't erase mistakes and just makes your work a mess. You may want to re-visit the principles of markmaking section to refresh yourself on them.

• I'd like you to experiment with proportions and rates of foreshortening more. Mix in some longer/thinner/wider boxes to see how your lines behave in different scenarios. For rates of foreshortening you tend to keep your vanishing points quite close to your boxes and converge your lines dramatically. Be sure to push your vanishing points further away so that your lines become closer to parallel. Remember that experimentation is important.

• There are times when your lines converge in pairs or you attempt to keep your lines a bit too parallel which results in them diverging. This is an example of lines converging in pairs, and this shows the relation between each line in a set and their respective vanishing point. The inner pair of lines will be quite similar unless the box gets quite long and the outer pair can vary a lot depending on the location of the vanishing point. Move it further away and the lines become closer to parallel while moving it closer increases the rate of foreshortening.

The key things we want to remember from this exercise are that our lines should always converge as a set not in pairs, never diverge from the vanishing point and due to perspective they won't be completely parallel.

I won't be moving you on to the next lesson just yet, each lesson builds off concepts in the previous course material so if you move forward with un-addressed issues you end up just creating further issues on top of them.

I'll be asking you to complete an additional 50 boxes. Focus on tidying up your linework and experimenting more.

I'd also encourage you to read/watch through the updated lesson 1 and box challenge material if you haven't already as it may help clarify some concepts.

Once you've completed your boxes reply to this critique with a link to them, I'll address anything that needs to be worked on and once you've shown you're ready I'll move you on to the next lesson.

I know you can do this and look forward to seeing your work.