I was looking at your work earlier in the week - it's hard to see a lesson 7 in the queue and not want to take a peek - and honestly your work is phenomenal.

To start, your form intersections show an exceptionally well developed grasp of how these forms relate to one another within 3D space. You've included a great many rounded forms throughout - ones that are definitely of the more difficult sort to figure out, and have handled them with considerable ease. Not only do they intersect perfectly (based on what I can tell with my naked eye, anyway), the forms themselves feel confident and cohesive. Now, it's clear you took me up on that invitation to use whatever tools you saw fit in terms of rulers, ellipse guides, etc. but I'm a firm believer in the fact that a tool is only as useful as a person's understanding of how to use it. Your achievements here are entirely your own, and they are impressive.

Your cylinders are much the same, although I see just a hint of imperfection in the straight lines that suggests that - though I might be incorrect - you appear to be freehanding them. Just a bit of wavering only really noticeable in a couple specific places, but otherwise the linework is impeccable as everywhere else.

Anyway, moving onto your actual vehicle constructions, I really only have just one issue with the lesson submission as a whole. At this point, it's not nearly as significant as it would be had it been earlier in the lessons, but it's still worth pointing out. It's the fact that in several places (though most notably the excavator construction towards the beginning), you're a little loose and sketchy with your linework. There's still a great deal of intent and thought that goes into your lines, but you're more willing to go back over your lines than you really should be when doing work for this course. It implies that the ghosting method is slipping a little bit, and while that is entirely normal and expected, I'd hope to see students adhere as closely as possible to those principles until the end of the course, before allowing the habits to slip a little.

Now, it's totally clear that no matter how you draw your lines, there's still that little pause in your execution where you consider the nature of the line you want to draw, planning more than you might have beforehand. It's not the kind of hapless scribbling we get from beginners, but much more mindful exploration. Just remember that in this course, we want to strive to do as much of the planning and exploration in our heads, rather than on the page.

Continuing on from there, everything else is stellar. Your grasp of 3D space, your care and conscientiousness in breaking your enclosed space (the box container) down with as many subdivisions as are required to pin down every specific feature and detail, your handling of those smooth, characteristic curves of each vehicle, all of it is extremely impressive. While that sketchy linework rears its head again in this car, it's not the sort of thing I can fault you for. We inevitably fall back to old habits when we get overwhelmed, and there's not much more overwhelming than a race car like that. As a result the linework is certainly a bit weaker, but all of the key components of the car are fleshed out beautifully, and that curvature of the vehicle near the far side mirror has such grace to it that it reminds me of a woman's high cheekbone.

Now most students I've seen go through this process hit the race car as their grand finale. They'll nail it (or not), and then call it quits, happy with whatever they achieved. But you... you decided you needed more, apparently, and your next few cars all feature the same kinds of challenges and struggles, but you achieved them with far more concise linework, regaining that sort of smooth precision in all of your curves with far less scratchiness. Not all were as detailed, but for some reason this one in particular really speaks to me in terms of the confident solidity of its various forms.

Now, I could gush for hours on each and every little drawing, but unfortunately you're the fifth of twenty-one critiques I have to get through today. So I'll keep the rest of this short: congratulations on completing this lesson, and with it, all of Drawabox. And hey - it's been precisely one year since you submitted Lesson 1! Pretty neat little coincidence.

At this point you can choose to tackle the remaining optional challenges (the texture challenge, the treasure chest challenge) but none of them are required. As of today, you are a completionist. I can see that you're not particularly active on the discord server, though you are there. Those who get past lesson 7 receive permanent access to the patreon channel there, whether they maintain their pledge or not.

Aside from those optional challenges, what you do next is entirely up to you. I hope you've been balancing Drawabox with a good deal of drawing for drawing's own sake, so hopefully it won't be a tough transition. Best of luck!