Hi Hi, today I will be critiquing your 250 boxes challenge :D

First 50

From what I see, the furthest corner of the boxes (one that is inside the box) seems to be the one where you had the most difficulty. But most of the time, it's been consistently close or mitting the exact spot. The second, smaller mistakes that I see as a pattern is that you seem to have difficulty drawing the sides of the boxes. Some of the lines extension made it so that they are a bit way off from the point where they met.

It's been a while since I have done this challenge, but I felt like some of the vanishing points are too close to the box. I saw that during this section you are supposed to have dramatic foreshortening, but I see that some boxes like 43-45 felt that one of their corner is pulled too strongly giving the illusion that the box is distorted. I do not know how close is too close for this section, but I just wanted to point that out.

Overall, the line extensions have been hitting the vanishing points that you have set up on the paper.

Next 50

The consistent pattern I see from this part is you kept drawing the boxes near to the pages, essentially eliminating one of the vanishing points from being properly assessed. From like a quick glance, it might look like it is converging, but without being given a bit more room, it is hard to judge whether the line extensions are close or meeting with one another. The other two vanishing points that are available usually meet in similar place.

I also saw that the convergence would often split into 2 parts. Especially if the box has a higher height compared to it's width. For this case, the line extensions usually are split into 2 pair, the top pair that converge in one direction and the bottom pair with their own convergence.

I also see that you seem to have an almost consistent miss with the line extensions coming off from the side of the boxes. Which is a very rare problem, because usually people have difficulties middle corner (the one inside the boxes). From what I see, the consistent pattern is that the two middle corners were converging or almost parallel to one another (which is what the creator used to help those who have this problem https://imgur.com/8PqQLE0) but the sides furthest away from this middle corner tend to have a wider angle which tend to not converge.

The next 150

Most of the feedback I have given for this part came from the Next 50 sections, especially the first and second paragraph. I can say that most of the time your convergence does meet together, making the boxes stable. I do see a lack of dramatic foreshortening during this part, mostly because your prefer to have shallow foreshortening outside of the pages. Some more variation would be nice, especially if you are doing warmups :D

I do want to give feedback regarding the format of the submission:

• Regarding the fine liners size, please try to stick to the fine liners thickness that was recommended (0.5, 0.4 might be fine). While this is a free critique, I have difficulties tracking the boxes between the line extensions, mostly because the line extensions have bolder color that drawn out the lines of the boxes.

• Try to put hatching on the sides closest to the viewer on future exercises like 250 ellipses, this would help the viewer understand which side is the closest to the viewer. I believe it's not mandatory, but this would help those who critique you :D

• Try to move out or clear away other pages from the image of the page you want to submit. Starting from box 30, the pages underneath the pages you are submitting starting to spill over onto the current pages and help confuse the line extensions that came out of the pages. By the final image, the stack of paper underneath the page you are submitting felt like it is interfering with the page you want to submit. Next time, try to focus on one page at a time, removing other pages out of the frame help the critique to focus on that page alone. This is not a feedback regarding the background (I take mine of a black table or bed at times), but the things near the page that you want to submit (which in this case is other pages).

In general, I still think that the line extension of the boxes from all three sides converge / meet at the same point, so good job :D