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

Congratulations on completing the 250 box challenge! While usually I love to dig into the positives of a student's work, I have a big pile of work to get through, and we're suffering through a pretty brutal heat wave - so I'll just get right into it.

Things you did well:

• Your lines appear more confident, accurate and less sketchy as you progress through the challenge.

• You're attempting to make use of line weight and while you may still have room to improve it's a tool that requires a lot of mileage to become comfortable using so it's good that you're starting to use it early on.

• Your hatching is clearly thought out and appears confidently drawn rather than rushed.

• Good work experimenting with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening. Building up a habit of experimenting with help you in the future as it's often the key to developing our understanding of new concepts.

• Your convergences are much more consistent by the end of the challenge and there are fewer cases of diverging lines popping up and distorting your box.

Things you can work on:

• While not a huge issue in their current state you could draw your boxes a bit larger to make better use of your page. Drawing large helps us become comfortable using our shoulder and allows us to see our mistakes more clearly. Yours are on the line of just big enough but drawing larger can be beneficial so it's worth considering in the future.

• You're overshooting your stopping point at times, if you aren't already try lifting the pen while it's still moving to maintain your confidence. As you build up muscle memory you'll learn when the right time to lift your pen is to stop your line where you want.

• There are moments where your lines are converging in pairs rather than as a set which you can see an example of here. I'll quickly point you to this example which shows how each line in a set relates to one another 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.

Overall this was a really 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!