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've done well:

• Your lines are looking smooth and confident with few cases of wobbling.

• When drawing hatching lines you're keeping them tidy and evenly spaced rather than rushing them as an afterthought.

• You're doing a good job of experimenting with orientations and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is important in order for us to develop a deeper understanding of new concepts so it's great to see that you're developing this habit and I hope you'll continue to nurture it in the future.

• Overall your convergences are looking more consistent with fewer diverging lines leading to distortion.

Things you can work on:

• I'm unsure if your pen was possibly dieing or it's the amount of pressure you're applying but many of your lines are very light and often fade from the page, try pressing just a bit more to maintain solid lines.

• Line weight is an incredibly useful tool and one that requires a lot of mileage to become comfortable using. It does appear like you're trying to use it at times but from your lines being so light to begin with it's hard to tell at times, either way be sure to start building up that mileage in your future warm ups/work.

• I'd like you to experiment with proportions a bit more in the future, currently most of your boxes are the same shape/size, try implementing some long and thin or wide boxes so you're comfortable working with various forms.

• While you've definitely improved, there are moments where your lines are converging in pairs as shown here, this is a mistake we can work on. If you take a look at this example it shows how each line in a set relates to one another and their 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.

Overall this was a solid submission and I have no doubt you'll continue to improve and grow with more mileage. I'll be marking your submission complete and moving you on to the next lesson. Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck in lesson 2!