Congratulations on making it through the box challenge!
Now to the critique:
Overall your lines look great: they are straight and smooth! I do see really slight curving and wobbling on some of your lines but considering most of your lines don't have this problem, I wouldn't worry about it. Just remember to take time to draw each line carefully. Crosshatching on your boxes is also most of the time really neat; however for example in the box 68 the crosshatching overshoots or undershoots on both sides. When deciding to add crosshatching, remember to take your time with each line, planning each line and executing it confidently. When it comes to the line weight, it should be applied to the silhouette of the box to make the form more cohesive. I see couple of boxes like the 114 that have the inner corner line thicker as well. If this is due to drawing the extension lines, it's fine but otherwise don't redraw lines without a good reason.
But as I said before, your mark-making is overall excellent. The things I pointed out are just really small things to look out for in the future.
You have extended the majority of your lines correctly, and in the cases where you have not, you have realized it and made a note of it. Good!
Your boxes perspective wise are really well constructed! When looking at the box as a whole I don't see parallel lines or diverging lines. I do notice though that some of your boxes have a single line either diverging, being parallel to another line or converging too much. For example boxes 177 and 96. This is a really common thing to happen and not something you need to worry about too much. One thing that could help with this could be thinking about the relationships between lines. You could try and change up the order in which you draw your boxes to help with this. You have also marked yourself in what direction the lines should have gone, which I think is a great way to learn. When doing this you could also try to imagine how changing the line's direction affects the other lines. I would also recommend ScyllaStew's method but it looks like you are already using it.
Lastly, don't be too harsh on yourself. The goal is not to be able to draw boxes perfectly in perspective.
As a whole you have done an amazing job with this challenge! I'll mark this as completed and you are free to move on to the lesson 2. Considering how good your boxes are, you can also start looking at the advanced box exercises. Keep up the good work!
Next Steps:
Move on to the lesson 2.
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Was rather doubtful about how I did, so I'm really happy you think I did good!! :D
Your critique is really well-done and helpful, thank you so much!
Would you recommend I try out the different order of drawing boxes pinned in the #basic-challenges channel over at Discord (The second pin from the top) in my warmups?
You can certainly try that and see if it works!
If I have understood it correctly, the advice to change the order in which you draw your boxes is based on that you can't rely on your habits when drawing boxes. With this many boxes to draw it's probably easy to just make it an automatic habit of placing one line after another in a certain order. When you change it up, you can't rely on that, which makes you think more about what you are doing. That's what I assume at least. You may want to ask other people about it to get further information though as I have not tried this. I personally plot everything after my Y and the first plane before placing any other lines.
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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