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 did well:

• While there's still some work to do your line work has improved quite a bit over the course of the challenge.

• You took the time to space your hatching lines evenly which helps keep things looking tidy rather than just creating a rushed mess.

• You're trying to apply line weight which while not a requirement of the challenge is nice to see. It takes most people a fair bit of mileage before they feel comfortable applying it so getting an early start like this will help you see results sooner.

• It's great to see that you're experimenting with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening as well. Experimentation is an important part of the learning process so I hope you'll continue to nurture and display this habit in the future as well.

• When it comes to your convergences you're becoming increasingly consistent with fewer distorted boxes being created from the results of diverging lines.

Things you can work on:

• There's still some noticeable wobbling and arcing occurring in your lines which shows you may hesitating rather than drawing confidently. The arcing is from possibly not making use of your shoulder as much as you could be.

• At times you do draw your boxes a bit small and leave lots of blank page space. By drawing larger we become more comfortable working with our shoulder and it allows us to see our mistakes more clearly as well.

• 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 a few mistakes your boxes are improving so far and with more mileage you'll continue to become more consistent. That being said I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 2.

Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups, work on your line confidence and good luck