10:22 PM, Tuesday June 7th 2022
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.
In order to keep this critique brief it may also get a bit blunt at times so I apologize in advance, it's not a critique of you just the work that's been provided.
I do get the impression that you rushed through this challenge and there are a few reasons that lead me to believe this. You should be waiting until you get critique on your submission before starting the next step of the course, as an example you shouldn't start the box challenge until you get your lesson 1 critique or start lesson 2 until you get your box challenge critique. While I can't be certain that you started this before your lesson 1 submission your boxes are very wobbly at the beginning of the challenge and looking at your profile I can see that you're asking questions about lesson 2 which you shouldn't be looking at until this critique has been read and given you the "ok" to move on to it.
You were told to move on to the box challenge on the 26th which means that you completed the challenge in 12 days, while 20 boxes a day is doable it's more than we typically expect or recommend. Each box typically takes around 5 to 10 minutes to complete if people take their time, with some more time spent looking over each page to determine how to adjust their approach on the next page. If each box takes 10 minutes it's about 41 hours for the whole challenge, it's not surprising if the challenge takes around a month total. Of course if your time isn't limited it's possible to do it faster but people often hit a point of dimishing returns when trying to learn things so it's better to do something for 30 minutes a day rather than doing the same amount of work in 3.5 hours in one day
Your lines do improve over the course of the challenge but there is still the occasional wobble or line that's broken into multiple sketchy lines rather than a single confident one. Remember that accuracy comes with mileage, smooth confident lines using the ghosting method are the top priority.
This brings us to the main issue I've noticed, you may have been so focused on your linework that you neglected some of the principles of the challenge itself. Your lines are often diverging or don't converge in a consistent manner which shows that you may not have clear vanishing points in mind. As you can see here our lines are part of a set and should converge towards a vanishing point, the further the vanishing the point the closer to parallel the lines will become but they should never be diverging. Each box is composed of 3 sets of lines and each set will have it's own vanishing point that they converge towards.
There doesn't appear to be any attempts at hatching or line weight which while optional are very useful tools and I encourage you to practice them going forward. The lack of them also leads to the feeling that you may not have given yourself enough time to complete this challenge.
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.
I'd like you to read through the instructions again and draw 50 more boxes please. Take your time, give them your best attempt. Try implementing hatching and line weight, utilize the ghosting technique to plan your lines before drawing them and imagine how each set converges towards your vanishing points. Be sure to experiment with proportions and rates of foreshortening by placing your vanishing points at different distances as well.
While not directly related to the challenge itself if you could take pictures of your pages closer up so that there's less non-relevant information, and we can have an easier time seeing smaller details it would also be appreciated going forward. Your pictures are high res which is great, but ideally we don't need to open each photo to look for things and can instead scroll through the imgur/website page and get all the info we need.
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.
Next Steps:
50 more boxes please.