Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.

No worries about the order, as long as they're numbered it's workable and even if they're in complete reverse order that's better than it being completely random.

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 did a good job keeping your lines smooth and confidently drawn.

• Your hatching is kept pretty tidy even though you drew a lot of lines which is something people tend to struggle with. In the future you really don't need to apply this many (unless you're doing it for an intended reason), even just a few lines across the form is enough to help distinguish the face they're being drawn on.

• Great work experimenting with proportions and orientations. Experimenting is an important habit to build and helps us form a more well rounded understanding of the concepts we're practicing. I hope you continue to develop and display this habit throughout the rest of the course.

• Your convergences are looking much more consistent than when you started and demonstrate that your sense of 3D space is coming along nicely. Your boxes by the end of the challenge are much more solid appearing and you create fewer boxes that end up distorted from having diverging lines.

Things you can work on:

• There's room for you to experiment with rates of foreshortening more. Currently you tend to keep your vanishing points at a consistently far off distance so the majority of your boxes have lines that converge at similar rates. Try mixing it up to see how your lines react, moving the vanishing points closer with cause a more dramatic rate of foreshortening.

• 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.

I will quickly touch upon some things that I'd like you to keep in mind in the future as well. You're definitely being hard on yourself in your submission, you managed to make quite a bit of progress. I did notice however that you completed the challenge in basically 2 weeks which is quite a bit faster than we'd normally recommend most people to tackle it. It's definitely doable but it's a lot of work and people risk burn out which slows down their progress more than anything, I get the impression you may have come close to doing so (or maybe you are feeling a bit burnt out already) in which case it's best to recall the 50% rule brought up in lesson 0. Something to keep in mind as well is the two week wait period between homework submissions is in no way a time frame of how fast you should be tackling the course material, it's mainly there to prevent us from being flooded by submissions as well as accounting for the fact that everyone comes into the course at a different stage of their life. Some people have never drawn before in which case they'll learn a lot more by drawing 30 minutes a day everyday and taking a month or more on a challenge like this while someone who may just be revisiting some of the basics and touching up on some of their skills could progress through this challenge quickly and may be used to drawing for hours upon hours at a time. In the future if you feel like you're starting to burn out and really struggling to put your pen to the page it may be best to call it a day, maybe do something else and start again tomorrow or spend some time drawing for yourself. Grinding out any form of lesson material in any skill is a good way to not want to touch the skill for months at a time. While if you took it at a more lenient pace you'd make more consistent progress.

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, experiment with rates of foreshortening and good luck.