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 smoothly and confidently drawn. I don't notice a ton of arching but it's usually a sign that you're relying a bit too much on your wrist as opposed to your shoulder. To fix under/overshooting I recommend lifting your pen off the page while it's in motion rather than stopping on the page, it takes a bit of time to build up muscle memory but once you do you can accurately lift your pen at the stopping point you desire while maintaining line confidence.

• Your hatching is mostly cleanly applied and evenly spaced which shows you're not rushing. This is where you undershoot a bit more because you're so focused on accuracy, just remember it comes with time as long as you're drawing confidently.

• It's good to see that you're trying to apply line weight, it takes time to build up mileage and become comfortable using it but once you are comfortable it's a very powerful tool. You're off to a good start and the sooner you start to build up mileage the sooner you'll see results.

• You did a good job of experimenting with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening. Experimentation helps us deepen our understanding of new concepts so it's an important habit to build. I hope you'll continue to nurture and display this habit in the future as well.

Things you can work on:

• Earlier in the challenge there were times you're extending your correction lines in the wrong direction while imagining your vanishing point between the box and the viewer, this results in your lines diverging from the actual vanishing point causing your boxes to become distorted. I put together this example to help someone else previously and hopefully it will help you as well. On the left you'll see some of their boxes that I corrected and on the right I go over the process that we can use to determine how to consistently tell which direction our lines will extend. Basically when we create our initial Y the center point of it will be the closest corner to the viewer, meaning that when we extend 3 lines out from it to create the Y itself we would continue extending our lines in these directions.

• 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.

Overall while you did make some mistakes your work is looking pretty solid so far with noticeable improvement and with more mileage you'll continue this trend and become more consistent. 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.