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:

• You're keeping your lines mostly confident and smoothly drawn. You do have a bit of arching occurring at times which may be a sign you're slipping into using your elbow or wrist rather than your shoulder.

• You're experimenting with proportions, orientations, and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is an important habit to have because it helps us form a more concrete understanding of the concepts we're practicing. I hope you'll continue to experiment in the future.

• There is noticeable improvements when it comes to your converging lines with fewer distorted boxes being created from distorted lines.

Things you can work on:

• Your hatching lines could be a bit tidier, try to keep them evenly spaced. Just remember that every line should be planned and drawn confidently.

• While not a requirement of the challenge I suggest you practice implementing line weight. It takes a fair bit of mileage before most people find themselves comfortable applying it but it's a useful tool. The sooner you begin to build up that mileage the sooner you'll see results.

• 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.

People do often require a bit of warmup before they get started working which is why we recommend you do them when you sit down to draw.

Overall while you did make a few mistakes your boxes are looking pretty solid 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 as warm ups and good luck.