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 good job of drawing the lines constructing your boxes smoothly and confidently.

• Great work experimenting with orientations, and proportions. It's important to experiment when learning any new skill, it helps form a more well rounded understanding of new concepts. This habit will serve you well in the future so I hope you'll continue to build it as you move forward.

• It's nice to see that you're drawing large, this will help you become more comfortable working from the shoulder and allow you to see any mistakes you've made more easily.

Things you can work on:

• Line weight and hatching aren't requirements of the challenge but I do recommend practicing them in your future attempts. They're incredibly useful tools but people often require a fair bit of mileage they feel comfortable applying them. The sooner you start to build up that mileage the sooner you'll see better results.

• I'd like you to experiment with rates of foreshortening more. You tend to keep your vanishing points fairly far away and your lines as parallel as possible. Try mixing it up by bringing your vanishing points in closer and converge your lines as a faster rate. Remember that experimenting is an important part of the learning process.

• 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.

I'd like you to draw 15 more boxes. I think you're on the right track but I want to make sure you can change your rate of foreshortening comfortably before moving forward. This is a good chance to experiment with hatching lines and line weight as well.

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.