Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!

Before we begin I just want to let you know that in general TAs will ignore student self assessment or critique (unless you have a question!) so as not to contaminate our own critique of your work. Back to your critique.

Overall I can see that you did very well on this challenge. When I look at your early pages of boxes and compare them to your final sets I can see that the quality of your mark making steadily improves. Your lines are straighter and more confident looking overall and you made some good progress with adding extra line weight to your boxes. You also do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points.

Now I noticed that you asked about the extra line weight and how to make it smoother and blend better with your previous marks. When you go to add weight to a line it is important that you treat the added weight the same way you would a brand new line. That means taking your time to plan and ghost through your mark so that when you go to execute it the mark blends seamlessly with your previous mark. This will allow you to build and create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines. As for covering the previous mark, you don't have to necessarily have to copy your previous mark from end to end. You can let the extra line weight taper off as a way to help that extra line blend more seamlessly with the previous mark. However, if your goal is to mimic the previous mark from end to end you can always try lifting your arm to end your mark, rather than trying to stop or slow the motion of your arm. You have been doing a good enough job so far with adding extra line weight, I mainly think that more time practicing will help you just as much if not more than trying out my suggestions.

Finally while your convergences do improve overall I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. So, when you are looking at your sets of lines you want to be focusing only on the lines that share a vanishing point. This does not include lines that share a corner or a plane, only lines that converge towards the same vanishing point. Now when you think of those lines, including those that have not been drawn, you can think about the angles from which they leave the vanishing point. Usually the middle lines have a small angle between them, and this angle will become negligible by the time they reach the box. This can serve as a useful hint.

Congrats again and good luck with lesson 2!