Hello, Michael:

Thank you for participating in the critique-exchange discord initiative!

Overall i think you did an excellent work. Your self-critique it's good and it had served you to improve through the challenge. You have some mistakes but all of them are expected because you need more practice on them, but that polishing part will fit itself in place as you do warm ups so don't forget about them before each exercise.

I have seen that you did a lot of dramatic foreshortening but only a couple of instances were it was shallower. You should practice shallow foreshortening more because you will need it more for future lessons. Dramatic foreshortening is useful for eye fish camera like drawings, but we are not going to practice those for learning construction so it would be better if you focus on shallow foreshortening in future exercises.

Your hatching seems sometimes rushed. Remember that every line drawn on drawabox counts for the plan-ghost-draw process and the hatching lines are no exception. Try to take hatching like an improved version of the ghosting lines exercise from lesson 1, you have to do it anyways so better take this as another opportunity to practice the ghosting method.

Besides having good results i think the reason some of your boxes end up being distorted is because of the inner corner. The reason could be in the nature of the exercise itself that guides you to let the inner corner to the end to make the mistakes obvious. A way to avoid this from now on is to plan all your corners after drawing the first 3 main lines and then adjust any corner that shows too much convergence (or that diverges) respect the others. You can find a more detailed description of the process in this ScyllaStew video. I recommend you to try out this method because you are going to draw even more boxes through this journey.

Last thing is that i think you are afraid of using more marks if you realise that the marks you already put on the paper are good enough. I think that's a bad idea because small errors that you can detect aren't that small and they will eventually accumulate into a bigger problem that anyone will detect easily. If you plan your drawing, place a mark and while marking other parts or looking at that first mark you realise that mark is wrong, change it and put another one that is correct. I have my pages filled with marks that were wrong and it's super useful to have them. They track your planning progression through the course (the less marks the more you are improving). They help you to identify the areas you are struggling with (too many marks while drawing pyramids? Maybe you have some trouble with them!). And you practice more the planning of a drawing and your observational skills! Half of drawabox is to teach you how to think and look at the things you want to draw ... and that happens in the most part when you are planning and thinking where you are going to place your lines.

Congratulations for completing this challenge. I hope my review have been useful to you. I will be glad to help you answering any question regarding this critique and good luck with lesson 2!