Sorry- Imagur kept shuffling the order randomly so I had to upload it in smaller posts
Boxes 49-95: https://imgur.com/a/O37MIjn
Boxes 96-149: https://imgur.com/a/mcGdOYi
Boxes 150-197: https://imgur.com/a/myzdqlX
Boxes 198-250: https://imgur.com/a/cVuRA7o
Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.
Congratulations on completing the box challenge, it's definitely a lot more work than most people expect. Not only does it help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. Be proud of what you've accomplished and that desire you've shown. 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 drawing the lines constructing your boxes smoothly and confidently.
It's nice to see that you're taking the time to plan each of your hatching lines and space them evenly. This helps keep your boxes looking tidy rather than looking like they were rushed on to the page.
Things you can work on:
You tend to draw fairly small, I'd like you to draw larger in the future. Drawing large will help you become more comfortable working from the shoulder and allow you to see any mistakes you've made more clearly.
I'd like you to experiment more with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening in the future. After a while your boxes start to feel quite similar, mix in some longer/thinner/wider boxes and rotate your boxes to see how your lines react in different scenarios. As for rates of foreshortening, you tend to push your vanishing points quite far from your boxes and make your lines as close to parallel as you can. You show you can bring your vanishing points in closer which is good but be sure to get more experience doing so.
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.
While I've noted a few things you can work on in the critique above, you've completed quite the daunting challenge. I'd like you to experiment more but otherwise your boxes are on the right track so far and will continue to improve as you build up more mileage.
That being said I'll be marking your submission as complete and move you on to lesson 2.
If you haven't already I would recommend reading/watching through the updated box challenge. It may help reinforce/clarify any concepts introduced in the challenge which will only help you going forward.
Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups, and good luck.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2.
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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