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:

• Your lines are looking tidy and confidently drawn.

• When hatching you're clearly giving each line the time it needs in the planning stage which helps keep your lines evenly spaced and prevents them from looking rushed.

• You're experimenting with proportions, rates of foreshortening and orientations. Experimenting is important because it helps us develop a better understanding of concepts. Continue to nurture this habit in the future and you'll see lots of benefits.

• When it comes to convergences you were imaginging your vanishing points in the wrong position and extending your lines in the wrong direction but i'm glad to see that it appears you figured it out around half way through. After this point distorted boxes become less prevalent.

Things you can work on:

• It doesn't appear like you're applying line weight, while not a requirement of the challenge it is a useful tool and one that requires a fair bit of mileage to use properly. Working with it sooner will help you see results faster.

• It appears like you're redrawing lines (or applying line weight in correctly possibly) if you are redrawing I encourage you to stop. Learning to work with your mistakes is an important and valuable skill.

• I'll point you to this diagram if you're still unsure about how to determine which way to extend your lines.

• 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.

Overall while you did make some mistakes your boxes are looking pretty solid so far with noticeable improvement and with more mileage you'll continue this trend and become more consistent. That being said I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 2.

Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck.