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.

Things you did well:

• You're keeping your lines smooth and confidently drawn.

• When you do apply hatching lines you're keeping them evenly spaced which helps them appear well thought out and tidy rather than rushed.

• It's not a requirement of the challenge so it's nice to see that you're trying to apply line weight. Most students need a fair bit of mileage with it before they can apply it comfortably so getting an early start like this is a good idea to help you see good results sooner.

• You're experimenting with orientations, proportions and rates of foreshortening. This experimentation will help prevent you from only improving at one thing and instead help you achieve a more well rounded understanding. I hope you continue to experiment and turn this into a habit in the future.

• Your convergences are looking more consistent than when you started which is a good sign that your sense of 3D space is improving.

Things you can work on:

• At times you're redrawing lines when you make a mistake, try not to do this. It's a bad habit because we want to work with our mistakes and learn from them. Redrawing just makes a mess and draws more attention to the mistake in the first place.

• 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.

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, and good luck.