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:

• You're doing a good job of keeping your lines smooth and confident.

• When hatching you're spacing your lines evenly which shows you're taking the time to plan them rather than just rushing them on to the page.

• It's nice to see that you're trying to apply line weight. It often takes people a fair bit of mileage before they feel comfortable working with it, getting an early start will help you see results sooner.

• Drawing large helps us become comfortable using our shoulder and allows us to see our mistakes more clearly so it's good to see that you were doing so.

• You're experimenting with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening. Experimentation is an important habit to build because it helps us deepen our understanding of the concepts we're practicing. I hope you continue to nurture this habit in the future.

• Overall your convergences are looking more consistent and there are fewer diverging lines causing distorted boxes to be created.

Things you can work on:

• Your line weight does get a bit heavy handed at times which leads me to believe you may be trying to cover mistakes. Remember we don't want to redraw our lines, if we make mistakes we learn from and work with them. Our accuracy will improve with mileage.

• 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 and good luck