Hi there, sorry for the delay I'll be handling your box challenge critique.

Not only does the challenge 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:

• Your lines are looking smooth and confidently drawn.

• When drawing hatching lines you're keeping them evenly spaced which shows patience and planning rather than just rushing them and creating a mess.

• It looks like you're trying to apply line weight which is great. It's not a requirement of the challenge but it's a tool that most people feel they need a fair bit of mileage before they feel comfortable applying it.

• You're trying to experiment with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is an important habit to build because it helps us form a more well rounded understanding of concepts. I hope you continue to nurture and demonstrate this habit in the future as well.

Things you can work on:

• You draw a bit small with lots of page space left over, I recommend drawing a larger because it helps us become more comfortable working from our shoulder and allows us to see our mistakes more clearly.

• There are times where you're imagining your vanishing points between the viewer and the box and extending your lines in the wrong direction, this causes your lines to diverge from where the actual vanishing point would be and causing your boxes to become distorted. Here's a guide I wrote up that will hopefully help you know how to imagine your vanishing point consistently.

• 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'd like you to draw 15 more boxes. Focus on getting your convergences to be more consistent and in the correct direction, remember to draw large as well.

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.