Hey, congratulations for making it through.
In my opinion your boxes have improved a lot. Linework has leveled up substantially. Kudos Perspective wise you have improved for sure but I think you still have to go a little further. The back side of your boxes is usually your weakest side and where you get divergent lines at times.
A few tricks I used to get better that you can try and see if they help you are:
Try to visualize the whole box before drawing every edge. I tended to fix in too much on individual edges and didn't see the big picture until it was drawn. Usually, erroneusly.
Always follow the same process. Is much easier too find where you are deviating if you always follow the same steps. I drew the 2 front faces first, then the hidden "base" of the box and then the rest. But that is just and example.
After drawing the visible edges I drew the "ghost" points for all hidden edges at once and used (1) to see if they where good.
I would continue using the boxes as a warm up until you nail that perspective. But don't let that stop you and continue to lesson 2.
This is another one of those things that aren't sold through Amazon, so I don't get a commission on it - but it's just too good to leave out. PureRef is a fantastic piece of software that is both Windows and Mac compatible. It's used for collecting reference and compiling them into a moodboard. You can move them around freely, have them automatically arranged, zoom in/out and even scale/flip/rotate images as you please. If needed, you can also add little text notes.
When starting on a project, I'll often open it up and start dragging reference images off the internet onto the board. When I'm done, I'll save out a '.pur' file, which embeds all the images. They can get pretty big, but are way more convenient than hauling around folders full of separate images.
Did I mention you can get it for free? The developer allows you to pay whatever amount you want for it. They recommend $5, but they'll allow you to take it for nothing. Really though, with software this versatile and polished, you really should throw them a few bucks if you pick it up. It's more than worth it.
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