Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!
You did pretty well on the challenge overall. When I compare your early boxes to your last few pages I can see improvements to your mark making quality and better consistency in your construction. You keep your lines straight and confident throughout the challenge and you do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points by the end.
One thing about your boxes that jumps out to me is your hatching. The quality of most of your construction is fine except for this area. Just remember that when working through Drawabox you should employ the ghosting method for every mark you make at every step of your construction to ensure that all of your mark making is clean and confident looking. This includes the hatching that we sometimes use for our boxes.
I also read your comment about going back over your lines to try and make them "right". Just remember that the confidence of the stroke is far and away your top priority. Accuracy is something that you will improve on as you continue working through Drawabox and practice ghosting. If you make a mark and the mark is wrong, you should leave it be and move onto the next line.
Finally while your convergences do improve overall I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. 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.
Congrats again and good luck with lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Continue to lesson 2!
Omg it's you Scylla! I have seen your YouTube channel (which was a huge help in subscribing to official critique, thanks btw).
Thank you for the feedback, I realize I was lazy with the hatching, I am going to put every line with intent from now on. :)
I'm glad you found my videos helpful!
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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