Congratulations for completing the 250 Box Challenge!

From what I can see your line work is fairly well done and your boxes are coming along well.

One of the first things I notice about your work here is that you did not follow a number of steps correctly. It is important that when working through Drawabox that you follow all of the instructions explicitly so that you get the most out of each assignment.

Starting with the way you set up your pages. You did not abide by the 5-6 boxes per page limit. and this forced you to draw many of your boxes quite small. Part of the reason for the 5-6 boxes per page rule is so that students have enough room to draw their boxes larger while having room to check their convergences. Drawing bigger also helps engage your brain's spatial reasoning skills, whereas drawing smaller impedes them. This, along with varying your foreshortening and orientations of your boxes will help you get the most out of the exercise. If you are using a paper that is not the recommended size for Drawabox make sure to take that into account when drawing your boxes. If your paper is smaller, you will want to draw fewer boxes per page so that you can still do the exercise correctly.

While your lines are much more clean and confident looking, I do see that you still hesitate in some areas. This is likely due to prioritizing your accuracy over creating a smooth, confident looking line.

Just remember that the confidence of the stroke is far and away your top priority. Once your pen touches the page, any opportunity to avoid mistakes has passed, so all you can really do is push through. Hesitation serves no purpose. Mistakes happen, but a smooth, confident mark is still useful even if it's a little off. Accuracy is something that you will improve on as you continue working through Drawabox and practice ghosting.

Now, while it is important that you use the ghosting method of each mark you make while doing Drawabox one thing you can try to help with ending your marks closer to where you want them is lifting the pen off of the page rather than stopping the motion of your arm. I would also recommend that you read this comment by Uncomfortable, where he talks more about hesitation.

You were also checking your convergences incorrectly. Checking your convergences is an important step so you should always take your time and make sure you are extending your sets of lines away from the viewer and towards their vanishing points. You can refer to the diagrams in this link if you are ever confused or uncertain. You do this so that you can see how a given set of parallel lines (that is, a set that is meant to converge towards a single vanishing point) actually behaves.

I see that for some of your boxes, you appear to have purposely tried to keep your sets of lines parallel on the 2D page, drawing them all to an "infinite" vanishing point. As explained in this section, because these boxes are oriented with us looking at the corner of the box, we should be drawing it in 3 point perspective - meaning with 3 concrete vanishing points, each set of lines converging towards a real point in space, even if that point is far off and the convergence is gradual.

I think this diagram will help you as well. 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.

I can see some areas where you were not always applying your extra line weight correctly. 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 original mark. This will allow you to create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines that reinforces the illusion of solidity in your boxes/forms, which you should apply only to the silhouette of your boxes. I recommend that you try adding your extra line weight in no more than 1-2 pases to better focus on ghosting your extra line weight properly.

Extra line weight should never be used to correct or hide mistakes. You should read more about this here. Something to keep in mind as well, when you are working through Drawabox you should be employing the ghosting method for every mark you make. This includes the hatching that we sometimes use for our boxes.

Keep in mind as you progress through Drawabox and begin to construct more complex forms that it is important to put in the time and focus required to execute each line correctly and to apply the ghosting method to every step of the process, as explained here. You should also frequently refer back to the instructions to ensure you are doing everything correctly and to the best of your current ability.

Before moving onto lesson 2, I am going to have you draw 25 additional boxes.

For these boxes you will do the following:

• Limit the number of boxes per page to 5-6. If you are using larger paper you may draw more boxes per page but please indicate that in your revisions so I can take it into account.

• Extend all of your lines correctly

• Apply extra line weight to your boxes You will apply your extra line weight in a single pass.

Make sure you visit every link I have left for you and reread the challenge instructions in their entirety before beginning your revisions.