Hey there nathan, good job on finishing your 250 boxes! You've done a good job here and that accomplishment should not go without applause. So let's get right to your critique.
So starting out, your grasp of perspective and 3d space has really improved throughout this challenge; your boxes are much more solid by the end. Additionally, your line quality has improved for the most part, but there are some boxes, especially the last page, have a lot of hesitation in them so remember to always be ghosting your lines and using your shoulder. You did a good job varying the orientations of your boxes, but you could have done more exploration in terms of size and convergences. Speaking of convergences, a lot of your boxes have such shallow/no convergence that you need to watch out for that - lines should be converging towards vanishing points even if it is minute.
In terms of your converging lines, you still have a bit of skewing going on with your back lines, but that's pretty common and that is why uncomfortable has made this infographic to further expand on how we should be approaching parallel lines in perspective. As illustrated, the parallel lines are all tied together by their vanishing point and need to be addressed as an ensemble. As on part moves then everything else must change and adjust. This is best perceived by the angles in between all of these parallel lines. As the vp moves further away the angles shrink and vice versa. The big action point here when it comes to boxes is that you always need to be considering all the parallel lines when you put one down - even the lines that haven't been drawn yet. Once you practice "stepping back" and considering all the lines in tandem, things will start to become more intuitive and click into place, so instead of trying to locate the back corner, your lines just all will start to intersect at the correct point and thus eliminating the skewing going on.
The only other thing I want to point out is that your use of lineweight could do a little more in clarifying and solidifying your forms so read this section on lineweight again and think about how you can apply that to your work.
Overall though you've done a good job and I'll be marking your challenge as complete. Congratulations!
Next Steps:
You are now ready for lesson 2, keep up the good work.
Thank you for the critique, I'm exited to get started on lesson 2!
I'll work on the convergence in my warmups!
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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