Congratulations for completing the 250 Box Challenge!

Just to let you know, while doing Drawabox you should not start on the next lesson assignments until after you have received official feedback from Uncomfortable or a TA and had the lesson marked as complete. Back to your critique.

I can see you made some good improvement with the quality of your mark making. Your lines steadily become straighter and more confident looking as you progressed through the challenge. Your boxes are drawn at a good size with a variety of orientations and vanishing points. You have made good progress with adding extra line weight to your boxes, I can see that your extra line weight is blending more seamlessly with your original marks as you progressed.

While you have made good progress with executing your marks confidently, I can see that you still have frequent signs of some wobbling and hesitation showing in your mark making. Just remember that the confidence of the stroke is far and away your top priority. Once your pen touches the page, any opportunity to avoid mistakes has passed, so all you can really do is push through. Hesitation serves no purpose. Mistakes happen, but a smooth, confident mark is still useful even if it's a little off. Accuracy is something that you will improve on as you continue working through Drawabox and practice ghosting.

Now, while it is important that you use the ghosting method of each mark you make while doing Drawabox, one thing you can try to help with ending your marks closer to where you want them is lifting the pen off of the page rather than stopping the motion of your arm. I would also recommend that you read this comment by Uncomfortable, where he talks more about hesitation.

One thing I notice about your boxes is that you were not always applying your extra line weight correctly. When you go to add weight to a line it is important that you treat the added weight the same way you would a brand new line. That means taking your time to plan and ghost through your mark so that when you go to execute it the mark blends seamlessly with your original mark. This will allow you to create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines that reinforces the illusion of solidity in your boxes/forms. I recommend that you try adding your extra line weight in no more than 1-2 pases.

Extra line weight should never be used to correct or hide mistakes. You can also read more about this here. Something to keep in mind as well, when you are working through Drawabox you should be employing the ghosting method for every mark you make. This includes the hatching that we sometimes use for our boxes.

I see that for some of your boxes, you purposely tried to keep your sets of lines parallel on the 2D page, drawing them all to an "infinite" vanishing point. As explained in this section, because these boxes are oriented with us looking at the corner of the box, we should be drawing it in 3 point perspective - meaning with 3 concrete vanishing points, each set of lines converging towards a real point in space, even if that point is far off and the convergence is gradual.

Finally while your converges do improve overall I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. So, when you are looking at your sets of lines you want to be focusing only on the lines that share a vanishing point. This does not include lines that share a corner or a plane, only lines that converge towards the same vanishing point. Now when you think of those lines, including those that have not been drawn, you can think about the angles from which they leave the vanishing point. Usually the middle lines have a small angle between them, and this angle will become negligible by the time they reach the box. This can serve as a useful hint.

Before moving onto lesson 2 I am going to have you draw 30 additional boxes. For these boxes you will be adding extra line weight to all of them, as described in the links above. You will apply your extra line weight in one pass.

I will also be checking your convergences and seeing if you are doing a better job of getting your sets of lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points along with your overall line confidence. Make sure you reread the instructions in their entirety before you begin your revisions. If you have any questions feel free to ask.