Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!

Before we begin I just want to let you know that in general TAs will ignore student self assessment or critique (unless you have a question!) so as not to contaminate our own critique of your work. Back to your critique.

Overall you did pretty well on the challenge. I can see some solid improvement in your mark making when I compare your early boxes with your final pages. Your lines are straighter and more confident by the end and you do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points.

One thing that I notice about your boxes is the added line weight. By the end you do a better job of making that added line weight blend in more smoothly your original marks. But there is still some room for improvement here as even at the end I see that you still appear to be hesitating with these marks. When you go to add weight to a line it is important that you treat the added weight the same way you would a brand new line. That means taking your time to plan and ghost through your mark so that when you go to execute it the mark blends seamlessly with your previous mark. This will allow you to build and create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines. You can read more about this, here.

Another quick thing I want to point out is your hatching. While working through Drawabox you should be employing the ghosting method to plan and execute every mark you make. This includes the hatching we sometimes use on our boxes.

Finally while your convergences do improve overall I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. So, when you are looking at your sets of lines you want to be focusing only on the lines that share a vanishing point. This does not include lines that share a corner or a plane, only lines that converge towards the same vanishing point. Now when you think of those lines, including those that have not been drawn, you can think about the angles from which they leave the vanishing point. Usually the middle lines have a small angle between them, and this angle will become negligible by the time they reach the box. This can serve as a useful hint.

Congrats again on completing the 250 Box Challenge and good luck with lesson 2!