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

Not only does this challenge help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. With that being said, it is important that we read through all of the directions to get the most out of the lessons/exercises or else we end up wasting not only our time but the person critiquing our work's as well.

I am glad that you noticed you weren't following directions eventually, but in the future do make sure you read through the lesson content completely before starting to work on the exercises.

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:

• Your lines are mostly looking confident and smooth with few cases of wobbling occurring.

• You're experimenting with orientations and proportions quite a bit. Experimenting is a key habit to develop in order to deepen our understanding of new concepts, I hope you'll continue to work on this habit in the future.

Things to work on:

• While you do show that you can draw confidently, it does appear like you're redrawing your lines when you make a mistake. Part of the reason we use ink is to become used to working with our mistakes so I'd encourage you to not make this a habit.

• While not mandatory to the challenge you're not implementing hatching lines, it's a useful tool and good practice so I would recommend adding it in the future. It's also tricky to tell at times if you're trying to implement line weight intentionally or not, some times it appears like it's there but not following the guide lines laid out in the challenge, and other times it just appears like you're redrawing. Much like hatching it's not required for the challenge it is an incredibly useful tool and one that requires a lot of mileage to become comfortable using so I would recommend starting to build that mileage sooner rather than later.

• Earlier in the challenge you draw quite a few boxes per page and later on you still have a decent amount of blank page left over. We recommend drawing 4-6 large boxes per page as it helps us become more comfortable using our shoulder and allows us to see our mistakes more clearly.

• 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.

I won't be moving you on just yet as you didn't really complete the challenge as it was instructed and there are still a number of things to work on. With that being said your boxes are on the right track and I feel like if I asked you to draw all of your boxes properly until you did 250 of them on top of what you've done it would just risk burning you out needlessly, so I'll only be asking you to draw 25 more.

Make sure you read through all the instructions, read through your critique and try to work on all the issues brought up. I know you're capable of doing this and look forward to seeing your work, give it your best attempt.