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5:41 PM, Monday June 15th 2020

Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!

You did really well overall and I can see a lot of growth in your work overall! When I compare your first few pages with the rest of your work your mark making shows a lot of improvement and your sets of parallel lines converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing point. You did a good job of varying your boxes and varying how far your vanishing points are. Your line quality also improved and became more consistent by the end.

I can also see that you did try to add line weight to some of your boxes. This is good to see and I encourage you to continue doing this in the future as I think it will really push your boxes forward. When you go to add weight to a line it is important that you treat the added weight the same way you would a brand new line. That means taking your time to plan and ghost through your mark so that when you go to execute it the mark blends seamlessly with your previous mark. This will allow you to build and create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines.

Finally while your convergences do improve overall I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. So, when you are looking at your sets of lines you want to be focusing only on the lines that share a vanishing point. This does not include lines that share a corner or a plane, only lines that converge towards the same vanishing point. Now when you think of those lines, including those that have not been drawn, you can think about the angles from which they leave the vanishing point. Usually the middle lines have a small angle between them, and this angle will become negligible by the time they reach the box. This can serve as a useful hint.

Your boxes show a lot of good improvement and if you keep in mind what I said here you should continue to see improvement in your boxes and your mark making as a whole. Congrats again and good luck with lesson 2!

Next Steps:

Continue to lesson 2!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
11:59 PM, Monday June 15th 2020

Thanks very much Scylla!

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