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:

• For the most part your lines are looking confidently drawn. There is the occasional wobbly line that could be more confident as you mentioned but you're on the right track and as long as you're aware of this you can continue to improve your line quality.

• Your hatching lines appear planned and evenly spaced. This helps keep your boxes tidy rather than appearing rushed.

• It does look like you're trying to apply line weight at times which is great. It's a useful tool but one that requires most people to build up a bit of mileage before they feel comfortable applying it. Getting an early start at building up that comfort will help you see better results sooner.

• You're doing an excellent job of experimenting with orientations, proportions and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is important when learning any skill and helps develop a more well rounded understanding of new concepts. Without doing so you may only improve at one particular method so it's a great habit to be building and one I hope you continue to demonstrate in the future.

• Overall you've noticeably improved by the end of the challenge in terms of both line quality and convergence consistency and with more mileage you'll continue to see improvements.

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.

A quick note about the back edge is that it is very rarely perfect, this is because it is affected by every other mistake up to that point so if another line is off this one will be as well. While it's good to note that you can improve them don't stress about them being perfect since we're doing this freehand. Largely we just want to improve our understanding of 3D space and you're on the right track so far.

Overall while you did make a few mistakes your boxes are improving so far and with more mileage you'll continue to 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 and boxes as warm ups, and good luck