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:

• You're doing a great job keeping your lines smooth and confident.

• When hatching you're keeping your lines evenly spaced which shows care and planning ahead rather than just rushing them on to the page.

• While not a requirement of the challenge it's nice to see you're applying line weight. Most people feel they need a bit of mileage before they find themselves able to comfortably apply it so getting an early start is a good idea. The sooner people practice the sooner they'll see results.

• You're experimenting with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is an important habit to build and helps use form a more well rounded understanding of the concepts we're trying to learn. I hope you continue to experiment in the future course content as well.

• Overall your convergences are becoming more consistent with fewer distorted boxes being created from diverging lines.

Things you can work on:

• 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 a few mistakes your boxes are improving so far and with more mileage you'll continue to become more consistent. That being said I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 2.

As a final note you mention that it took you over a month to do this challenge, know that that's totally fine. Some people look at the 2 week waiting period between submission as a timeline of how fast they should be working and it's not that at all. This course is dense and if it takes you a month or longer to fully absorb what the lessons are teaching you and display your best work that's totally fine, the people who rush to complete their work are only hurting their own progress.

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