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

Taking your time is better than rushing so don't stress about it taking 2 months.

Not only does the box challenge 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:

• Your lines are mostly looking confident and your hatching is clearly drawn with intention rather than being treated as an after thought and rushed.

• You're experimenting with proportions and orientations, experimentation is a key factor in helping us deepen our understanding of new concepts so it's a good habit to build and I hope you continue to do so.

Things you can work on:

• You tend to draw quite small and have lots of space left over on your page, I recommend drawing larger as it helps us become more comfortable using our shoulder and allows us to see our mistakes more clearly.

• You are redrawing your lines at times which is a bad habit to form, we have to work with any mistakes we make.

• It doesn't appear like you're experimenting with line weight much (If you are I apologize your pictures are from quite far back and your boxes are small so it's harder to see small details.) It's an incredibly useful tool and one that requires mileage to use effectively so I recommend practicing with it.

• Your convergences are improving but there are a few issues worth mentioning. At times you're imagining your vanishing point in the wrong position and extending your lines in the wrong direction, (boxes 232 and 442(?) are examples of this) I made this diagram to help some other people who suffered from this issue earlier on so hopefully it can help you as well.

• There are times when your lines converge in pairs or are kept a bit too parallel as well. 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.

Due to perspective our lines should never be completely parallel, never diverge from the vanishing point and always converge consistently as a set of 4 lines and not as pairs.

You are improving, while your work is starting to look solid and more consistent there's a few key issues we need to tackle before moving ahead where we'll be stacking more concepts on top of the previous ones.

For that reason I'm going to be asking you to draw 15 more boxes.

Remember:

• Draw large

• Don't redraw lines

• Draw confidently

• Extend your lines in the correct direction using the Y method shown in the diagram mentioned above.

• Try your best to have your lines converge in sets and avoid keeping them too parallel if the vanishing point is further away.

• Experiment with line weight, while we don't expect you to be perfect at it it's better to start building up mileage sooner rather than later.

Once you've completed your boxes reply to this critique with a link and I'll look over them, from there I'll point out anything that needs to be worked on and move you on to the next step.

I look forward to seeing your work!