Hi Luke, I'll be the one looking over your submission today and hopefully I'll be able to provide you a helpful critique.
Before starting I'd like to congratulate you for being able to reach the 250th box, this is a very tiring challenge which requires a lot of patience, and not everyone is able to push through this far as many stop before even starting this challenge; This just shows your eagerness to improve and I'm looking forward to you're next submission.
so let's get started!
starting off with your extension lines, you've done great extending it on the right direction, you've also extended it to a certain extent which makes it so that you can see where you got it off or where you got it to converge into a single point. Looking at you're boxes, you've experimented well with the orientation, width/length, as well as the foreshortening of the box, it's also great that you kept your boxes into a maximum of 5 per page.
moving forward there are some instances where you crossed out some things like the extension line or some hatching lines, while it does give you a sense of wanting to fix it, it's best that you try to work with it since you wouldn't want to hide it as you won't know that it's a mistake or correct it since it'll be even more noticeable.
looking at you're hatching, although consistent and tight, they're wobbly; like any other line, hatching deserves to be ghosted which not only would it make it a bit more appealing it could also add to your mileage. if you did ghost it, try to experiment with the tempo or speed of your ghosting in your warmups and see where you are comfortable but confident with your markmaking.
a lot of instances you were able to converge 3 lines into a point and some very close to converging into a single point, while it isn't expected that you're able to make the set of lines into it's own individual point, there is significant improvement throughout your submission and i can see well that you did your best, just to add this: keep in mind that a set of line should converge into a single point not into multiple points(it'll take sometime for you to guesstimate accurately, but adding noncommital marks will surely help make it slightly converge closer.), it shouldn't diverge away from the vanishing point nor will it be parallel due to perspective.
overall this is a solid submission, you did your best and you seem to get the gist of what this challenge is about, one thing that I'd want you to keep an eye out is the confidence in your lines but congrats, don't forget the 50% rule and add this challenge to your pool of warm-ups, once you're more confident you can check out the advanced box exercises: https://drawabox.com/lesson/250boxes/2
Edit: woops i meant to type move onto lesson 2 sorry for the typo
Next Steps:
250 box challenge
(feel free to ask questions if you're confuse about something)
Thank you for the critique! I'm going to be starting lesson 2 today.
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Now, we're not a big company ourselves or anything, but we have been in a position to periodically import large batches of pens that we've sourced ourselves - using the wholesale route to keep costs down, and then to split the savings between getting pens to you for cheaper, and setting some aside to one day produce our own.
These pens are each hand-tested (on a little card we include in the package) to avoid sending out any duds (another problem with pens sold in stores). We also checked out a handful of different options before settling on this supplier - mainly looking for pens that were as close to the Staedtler Pigment Liner. If I'm being honest, I think these might even perform a little better, at least for our use case in this course.
We've also tested their longevity. We've found that if we're reasonably gentle with them, we can get through all of Lesson 1, and halfway through the box challenge. We actually had ScyllaStew test them while recording realtime videos of her working through the lesson work, which you can check out here, along with a variety of reviews of other brands.
Now, I will say this - we're only really in a position to make this an attractive offer for those in the continental United States (where we can offer shipping for free). We do ship internationally, but between the shipping prices and shipping times, it's probably not the best offer you can find - though this may depend. We also straight up can't ship to the UK, thanks to some fairly new restrictions they've put into place relating to their Brexit transition. I know that's a bummer - I'm Canadian myself - but hopefully one day we can expand things more meaningfully to the rest of the world.
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