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

Nearly a year is definitely a bit of a break, that being said your boxes are still looking solid and because you openly admit to it as well as being so cooperative I imagine that I can trust you to revisit the lesson 1 exercises as warm ups. I do recommend reading through it again and completing one page of each exercise just to make sure you're familiar with it all before moving forward, each lesson builds upon each other so this helps prevent any holes in your understanding. With that out of the way let's get started.

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 drawing both your box and hatching lines confidently and keeping them tidy. It's nice to see you're taking the time to space your hatching lines evenly as well, this prevents thing from becoming a mess.

• While not a requirement of the challenge it does look like you're trying to implement line weight which is great. It takes a bit of mileage to become comfortable with it but once you are it's a useful tool.

• You're experimenting with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening. Experimentation is a great way to help better you understanding of new concepts, I hope you'll continue to make a habit of this in the future as well.

• Overall your convergences have improved quite a bit, there's fewer distorted boxes by the end of the challenge that are caused by diverging lines.

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, I'm glad to see you're giving the course another chance (or have the time to tackle it) and good luck!