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:

• Good work drawing your construction lines confidently, this keeps your lines smooth and prevents wobbling.

• You're doing a great job of experimenting with orientations, and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is an important habit to build when learning any new skill, it helps form a more well rounded understanding. I hope you'll continue to display and nurture this habit in the future.

Things you can work on:

• They're not a requirement of the challenge but I recommend practicing applying hatching and line weight in your future work. They're useful tools to learn and the only way to improve is to practice.

• I'd like you to experiment with proportions more. For the most part a lot of your boxes were similarly shaped, try mixing in some longer/thinner/wider boxes to see how your lines behave in different situations.

• 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 move you on to lesson 2.

You mention not fully understanding 3D space just yet and being a bit worried about it. I will say that it does take time and you aren't expected to fully grasp it all just from this challenge but largely you are on the right track. You thought of vanishing points and extended your lines towards where you thought they were, that's a large part of the process. Some people have moments where things click and then suddenly their quality of work jumps up a lot but yours was solid all the way through and that just means that you were already a bit more comfortable thinking in 3D space than some others so don't worry too much. Mixing in some different proportions and continuing to experiment will also help because it means you can't rely on solved problems but have to keep actively thinking.

Long story short, you're doing fine so don't worry too much.

Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups, and good luck.