Hello Seppio,
Congrats on completing the challenge! It's very intimidating due to the sheer amount of boxes you have to draw, but you persevered and finished it, which shows your desire to learn and that you have what it takes to stick to the lessons.
Today I'll be reviewing some of your work, I hope that my advice is helpful to you.
What you've done well
Starting off with what you've done well, your lines are looking confidently drawn and smooth. You're making good use of the ghosting method and your hatching is clearly planned, nice and clean. Good job.
It's good that you're applying lineweight as well, with some mileage you'll get even better at it.
You've also done a good job of experimenting with proportions and rotations for your boxes.
What you can improve upon
I ask that in the future you replace the yellow/pinkish looking extension lines for a bolder color, like red. As it stands now it's pretty difficult to see them in a lot of your pages.
The perspective of your boxes is very similar throughout all of your pages, while you attempt drawing some boxes with one vanishing point close, it would've been nice to see you attempt boxes with all vanishing points very close, since you seem to have focused more on shallow perspective.
There is a lot of improvement from your first boxes to your last ones, but quite often your lines are still converging in pairs.
This happens for a few reasons, but regardless we can try to improve upon this mistake by keeping in mind that all of our lines should converge as a set, and that inner lines will usually be very similar unless the box is quite long.
We can also try to distribute the minor errors we commit by changing the order in which we draw boxes, by drawing our inner corners right after finishing one outer one, we can distribute better the mistakes we've made and draw a more forgiving looking box.
I believe this was a solid submission and that with more practice you'll continue to develop your abilities. I'll be marking this challenge as complete, don't forget to add boxes to your warm up list.
Good luck with lesson 2.
Next Steps:
Move on to Lesson 2.
Here we're getting into the subjective - Gerald Brom is one of my favourite artists (and a pretty fantastic novelist!). That said, if I recommended art books just for the beautiful images contained therein, my list of recommendations would be miles long.
The reason this book is close to my heart is because of its introduction, where Brom goes explains in detail just how he went from being an army brat to one of the most highly respected dark fantasy artists in the world today. I believe that one's work is flavoured by their life's experiences, and discovering the roots from which other artists hail can help give one perspective on their own beginnings, and perhaps their eventual destination as well.
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