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've done well:

• In your most recent 50 boxes especially your lines have become much more confident and appearing straight and smoothly drawn.

• When hatching you're evenly spacing your lines which shows thought is put into them rather than just rushing them on to the page and creating a mess. In your original 250 you experimentged with curved lines as well as some other fun ideas, while these can definitely be fun and stylistically interesting I'd recommend sticking to stuff like that to your fun drawing following the 50% rule. Mainly because when you try to include even more ideas on top of new concepts it can lead to you getting distracted and not absorbing things as efficiently as you could be.

• It appears like you tried to experiment with line weight a bit in your original 250 boxes and were a bit confused about whether it was correct or not based on what you wrote in your submission. Basically what we want to look out for is the intention behind drawing over a line, if you're doing it to help clarify edges or help the overall solidity of an object as mentioned in the line weight instructions that's totally fine and encouraged. It takes a fair bit of mileage to become comfortable working with line weight so starting early helps you reach that comfortable state earlier. What we want to avoid is redrawing lines when we make a mistake, it feeds the inner critic in our minds that everything needs to be perfect and slows us down, which is part of the reason we use ink to begin with. Mistakes allow us to see the effects they have and help use understand new concepts better and redrawing doesn't fix those mistakes, it just creates a mess.

• You experimented with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening a fair bit. Experimentation is important as it allows us to develop a deeper understanding of new concepts. It's a great habit to be building and I hope you'll continue to nurture and displat it in the future as well.

• Overall your convergences are looking more consistent with fewer cases of distorted boxes occurring in your later attempts.

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 some mistakes your work is looking pretty solid so far with noticeable improvement and with more mileage you'll continue this trend and become more consistent. 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.