Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.

In the future please try to limit what you include in your critique to just a simple greeting and any questions you may have. It may seem strict but ultimately we don't want any of your critique to influence our thoughts and lengthy submissions do take up time that we could be using to help you or other students. Nothing personal nor does it mean your feelings are invalid We just have to read it all to make sure we're not missing questions and it does add up with the volume of students we deal with.

I'll address your questions here quickly:

• Ultimately I can't tell you how to think, nor can I magically make things less precious. At the end of the day though, sketchbooks are just bundles of paper no different than printer paper. Yes they can look fancier, yes they're more organized and they can feel precious (they might even be higher quality) but if you don't use them they'll just sit and collect dust. Perfection is the enemy of good, and if you wouldn't do something unless it's perfect you'd never do anything because mistakes will always be made and no one starts out perfect (nor do they ever reach it really, always room to grow). Just do your best, realize that mistakes are part of the process and learn from them. The time spent worrying about "ruining" sketchbooks can go to filling more of them and you'll be happier with the progress you make and look back on how far you've grown. Can also brute force it to a degree by working in pen or markers, something that you can't erase (as long as the paper doesn't eat at the pen tips). Personally I used to find working with markers without any lines fun because once I started there was no point in stopping really and I couldn't just sit there and erase lines endlessly.

• As for your finishing comment, you can always add more to a piece, but you decide when it's finished. Whether it be out of boredom, lack of energy or just thinking it's good enough and you learned what you wanted to learn from it. Unless you're being paid to deliver something specific or you're following a course with requirements, you decide when to start and when to end.

Hope that helps.

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 construction lines are looking smooth and confidently drawn.

• You're doing a great job of experimenting with orientations, proportions and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is an important habit to build when learning any new skill, it helps form a more well rounded understanding. I hope you'll continue to display and nurture this habit in the future.

Things you can work on:

• It's not a requirement of the challenge but I recommend practicing applying hatching in your future work. It's a useful tool to learn and the only way to improve is to practice.

• 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.

While I've noted a few things you can work on in the critique above, you've completed quite the daunting challenge. Overall your boxes are looking solid, good work.

That being said I'll be marking your submission as complete and move you on to lesson 2.

Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups, and good luck.