Hello, Optimuserik:

I am not that ahead of you so take this feedback with a grain of salt. It's based on elodin guidelines to critique this challenge.

Congratulations, it's a tough challenge and you made it. It would be great if instead of rushing through it you would have completed this with a more calm and constant pace. One of the goals of this challenge is teaching us patience and resilence. Try to stick to a daily routine and make it small enough so you can keep with it. I made 5 boxes a day during all days of the challenge (took me about a month) and that was 1 hour every day. If I would have done more, I'm sure the burnout would have been achieved so I prefered to take more time in the long run but being constant. That's why I improved a lot on my first hundred boxes, because I let a lot of time to let the basics sink in. If you have to take something out of this critique is find out a way to create a routine that works for you.

I see that there are multiple times where you attempted the same line. I don't know if this was to correct a missed stroke (in which case, stop trying to correct your failures it's a waste of time, learn from them and move on) or if it was to draw thicker lines to add weight to the contour. In the last case, try to do the second pass without stopping after the first so you can use the short term muscular memory accumulated after ghosting.

Another thing to keep in mind, all the pages are a bit overflowed with lines of the same colour crossing with each other. Try to avoid it because it's confusing at the moment of tell you some feedback. I have seen some extension lines curving at the end, I don't know if it's because of the camera or that you didn't use a ruler on those. If it the first try to fix it using a scanner or an app that fixes that effect. If it is the second, use a ruler.

Also while extending the lines, you did extend the "ideal" line instead of the drawn one. I had the same doubt while doing the challenge but after reading some similar questions I got to the conclusion that the line that should be extended is the one that is drawn. I think it is nothing too wrong but keep it in mind because the extensions on this exercise should show your progression overall and not only on your estimations with your marks.

I haven't seen too many boxes with dramatic convergence. It could be interesting if you play around with that concept with a couple of boxes. Also playing with the different lengths of the axis is interesting too but I've already see that you did it with some boxes already.

You have improved a lot with the inner corner too. The thing that worked for me was to mark it early, before joining the other marks, so I could make corrections without messing up the whole drawing.

I think your progression overall is good enough to continue with lesson 2.

Hi Optimuserik, nice to meet you.

Like you, I just finished my 250 box challenge, it was tough, like the current times, so I understand that you stumbled.

First, I'd like to say that you sense of perspective y really nice. Although you seem to correct your lines, is clear that you understand how perspective works.

I suggest you two things. First, try to add some shadow to you drawing, it is really helpfull for give the sense of depth. And the other thing is that you can add more wight, make the outline edges a little more thicker to give the sense of solidity.

I´m just adding a little things because I totally agree on Raulillos's review. Specially on attempting the same line or trying to correct the stroke and the projection of the lines that you already drew.

I will no repeat the things that raulillo already said but I would add more work on the boxes. I siggest that, in your warmups, try to do a pair of boxes and projected with the correction that we have writed.

Good luck and keep the good work

Hi!

I'll start by saying that I liked your attempt. The boxes are big so you could draw more easily with your elbow and many of them seem very solid and sell well the illusion of three-dimensionality.

I find it remarkable that you decided to start from scratch after you stumbled and finally completed the challenge! You may have rushed, but I believe that's something we all end up doing with this challenge at some point!

In the first few pages, there are many attempts for each line when it should be a single, confident line. But that's something you seem to have corrected as you progressed.

Moreover, the line extensions overlap too much in some pages making them hard to decipher. The advantage of being that long, however, is that one can see if they converge to the same vanishing point or not and you seem to have managed to do so in many of them. Also, I didn't see any lines extended in the wrong direction.

As you also mentioned in your critique of my attempt, I did see that there wasn't too much variance in the shape of the boxes. There are some pages where it looks like you tried to experiment a bit though. A suggestion could be - before drawing the next shape, try and take a moment to plan it a bit in your head and ghost the lines to understand more or less where you'd like to put them.

Regarding the lineweight, all lines seem to have the same, just like in my own attempt. It might be good to try and add it in further exercises.

Generally speaking it looks to me like a really good attempt!