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

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 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:

• The largest issue in your submission is that you're focusing on accuracy rather than following the principles of markmaking introduced in lesson 1. This focus leads to you hesitating and drawing slowly which causes your lines to wobble rather than being drawn smoothly and confidently. It's great that you tried to apply hatching and possibly line weight but the quality of your lines hampers your results.

• 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.

Your boxes themselves are on the right track, your line quality is the issue. Every mark in this course should be planned using the ghosting method and then drawn in a smooth confident motion, your accuracy will improve with mileage. The choice to prioritize accuracy and hesitate by doing so will only make later course material more difficult so I'll be asking you for 10 more boxes. If you can present boxes with lines drawn confidently then I have no problem moving you on with the hope that you can continue to address the issue on your own. If however it appears like you're still struggling then you may be asked for further revisions.

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.