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.

I will quickly point your boxes are largely well done and you may feel you plateaued but realize that everyone's starting position is different. If you start off with really weak boxes you have a lot of room to grow, you started off making some pretty solid boxes so you definitely do improve it's just not going to be as drastic of a change. Basically, stop being so hard on yourself, your work is looking solid and you'll only continue to get more consistent as time goes on.

Things you did well:

• Your lines are looking tidy, smooth and confident.

• Good work taking your time when drawing hatching lines, you clearly put thought into them rather than rushing them as an afterthought.

• It's good to see you're implementing line weight it takes a lot of mileage to become comfortable using so starting to build up mileage early means less frustration later (your line weight is definitely looking more accurate than what we expect at this point by the way, so again stop beating yourself up).

• Great work experimenting with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening. Experimentation is the key to developing a deeper understanding of new concepts so I hope you'll continue to build this habit and nurture it in the future.

• Overall your convergences are becoming more consistent with fewer instances of diverging lines that lead to distortion.

Things you can work on:

• While you've definitely improved, there are moments where your lines are converging in pairs as shown here, this is a mistake we can work on. If you take a look at this example it shows how each line in a set relates to one another and their 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 this was a solid submission and I have no doubt you'll continue to improve and grow with more mileage. I'll be marking your submission complete and moving you on to the next lesson. Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck in lesson 2!