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 good job of keeping your lines smooth and confident.

• When hatching it's clear you're putting thought and planning into each line since they're spaced evenly. Just try to push them so both ends reach an edge of the plane they're being drawn on.

• It's not a requirement of the challenge so it's nice to see that you gave line weight a try. It's a useful tool but one that most people require a fair bit of mileage with before they feel comfortable. Getting an early start on building up that mileage will help you see results sooner.

• You do a good job of experimenting with orientations, proportions, and rates of foreshortening. Experimentation is an important part of the learning process and it helps us develop a more well rounded understanding. I hope you keep building this habit in the future and demonstrate it in later course material.

• Your convergences are noticeably improved by the end of the challenge (the last few pages have a few diverging lines, most likely from you rushing as you mentioned) compared to the beginning. Overall there's fewer cases of diverging lines creating distorted boxes.

Things you can work on:

• Try not to rush, learning can definitely become tedious at times but even so intentional practice will help you improve the fastest. Rushing just risks burn out so if you feel the need to rush or notice that you are it may be time to take a break or pick it up again the next day.

• There's room for you to experiment with proportion a bit more than you are currently, there are moments where large chunks of boxes become fairly similar. Don't be afraid to throw in some long and thin boxes, or wide boxes to mix it up.

• 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.

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