Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.

After the first 50 you shouldn't have any explicit vanishing points, so no drawing the point, no placing your finger on the page etc. At that stage you should be using the ghosting technique, your imagination and your other lines as reference to determine where your vanishing point should be. Having the vanishing points on the page is a good way of getting you used to thinking of them and seeing how your lines should behave, but relying on them means you don't really think about the 3D space you're creating much because the answer is solved for you (and learning to think about 3D space is the goal of the course).

Anyways, 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:

• When hatching you're taking the time to space each line evenly which shows that care and thought is being put into each line. This helps your boxes appear solid and tidy rather than rushed.

• You're doing a great job of experimenting with orientations, proportions and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is an important habit to build when learning any new skill, it helps form a more well rounded understanding. I hope you'll continue to display and nurture this habit in the future.

Things you can work on:

• You have some noticeable wobbling occuring in your lines. Remember that line confidence is our top priority and that accuracy will improve as we continue to build up more mileage.

• You're also re-drawing over some of your mistakes at times, try not to do this in the future. Part of why we work with ink is so that we have to learn from and work with our mistakes, re-drawing doesn't erase them and just makes your work less tidy.

• 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. Your lines need some work but otherwise your boxes are looking solid. I'm hopeful you can address your lines in your warmups and on your own time without the need for revisions. Just know that if they continue to be a problem later on that you'll likely get asked for some revisions to address it.

That being said I'll be marking your submission as complete and move you on to lesson 2.

I hope your injury heals/has healed as well as it can.

Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups, and good luck.