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

Congratulations on completing the box challenge, it's definitely a lot more work than most people expect. Not only does it help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. Be proud of what you've accomplished and that desire you've shown. 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've done well:

• The majority of your lines are looking smoothly and confidently drawn.

• Your hatching is tidily applied and mostly evenly spaced rather than just rushed haphazardly on to the page.

• You experimented with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening. Experimentation is important as it helps us deepen our understanding of new concepts, it's a great habit to be building and one that I hope you'll continue to show in the future as well.

• Your convergences at the start of the challenge were quite rough, even up until page 23 there are cases where you have lines diverging rapidly from the rest of the lines in a set. I'm glad to see that you do begin to figure things out and improve your consistency as you continue through the challenge.

Things you can work on:

• It appears like you're trying to apply line weight which is great as it requires a fair bit of mileage to become comfortable using. That being said by the end of the challenge you are applying it quite heavy handedly and also applying it heavily on all of the corners for some reason. I may be incorrect but I get the feeling you started doing this to hide the fact that your lines didn't always line up with the previous line underneath it. If this is the case I encourage you to stop, it's essentially redrawing our lines which is something we don't want to be doing, we instead want to work with our mistakes and see the effect they have. As long as you're drawing confidently your accuracy will improve with mileage.

• Towards the end of the challenge you fall into a bit of a pattern of drawing basically the same box over and over. As mentioned experimentation is important, while these boxes do look better than earlier ones you risk only being able to draw these types of boxes better.

• 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.

Overall while you did make some mistakes your work is looking pretty solid so far with noticeable improvement and with more mileage you'll continue this trend and become more consistent. I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 2.

Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck.