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

Taking your time to absorb the material to the best of your abilities is always preferred over rushing, and sometimes life just gets in the way so don't worry about it taking 3 months.

Not only does the challenge help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. 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 doing a good job of drawing the lines constructing your boxes smoothly and confidently.

• It's good to see that you're taking the time to plan and evenly space your hatching lines. This helps keep your boxes tidy and makes them look more solid.

• Seeing as how line weight is not a requirement of the challenge it's nice to see that you're applying it. It's a useful tool but one that most people need some mileage with before they feel comfortable applying it. Getting an early start like this will help you see better results sooner.

• You're doing a great job of experimenting with orientations, proportions 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:

• Probably the most notable thing to work on is that you very rarely actually extended all 3 sets of lines in your boxes and often limited yourself to 2 sets. This means that you're not getting the full information of how your convergences are behaving and limiting the speed at which you improve. While it may not seem like much it's definitely an important step to give you the full picture of what's occurring.

• 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 to the next lesson just yet, each lesson builds off concepts in the previous course material so if you move forward with un-addressed issues you end up just creating further issues on top of them.

While you're largely on the right track I'm certain you would have seen better results if you had followed all of the instructions provided. I'll be asking you to draw 25 more boxes, be sure to take your time and extend every set of lines to give yourself the best chance at seeing improvement. Keep in mind where your vanishing points are placed and how your lines should converge towards them as a set as well.

Once you've completed your boxes reply to this critique with a link to them, I'll address anything that needs to be worked on and once you've shown you're ready I'll move you on to the next lesson.

I know you can do this and look forward to seeing your work.