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:

• Your lines are looking smooth and confidently drawn.

• It's nice to see that you're spacing your hatching lines evenly with care rather than just rushing them on to the page, good work.

• It looks like you're trying to implement line weight which is great. Line weight takes a bit of mileage before more people find themselves comfortable working with it, but it's a very useful tool and it's worth learning.

• You're experimenting with proportions, orientations, and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is an important habit to develop, it helps us form a better understanding of what we're practicing.

• You're drawing large which helps you become more comfortable using your shoulder and shows your mistakes more clearly.

• Your convergences are looking more consistent by the end of the challenge which shows your sense of 3D space is coming along nicely.

Things you can work on:

• 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 looking pretty solid so far with noticeable improvement and with more mileage you'll continue this trend and 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 as warm ups and good luck.