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2:30 PM, Tuesday December 1st 2020

Congratulations for completing the 250 Box Challenge!

You've done a pretty good job on the challenge overall. I can see you made some good improvement with the quality of your mark making. Your lines steadily become straighter and more confident looking as you progressed through the challenge. You also do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points!

One thing I notice about your boxes is the extra line weight you applied. It looks like you are going a bit heavy when you apply your line weight in some areas. I recommend that you try adding your extra line weight in no more than 1-2 pases. You can also 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.

Finally while your converges 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. It is important to think about all four of these lines as a set. 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!

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Continue to lesson 2!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
6:26 AM, Wednesday December 2nd 2020

thank you for critiquing my work and the useful hints and diagram.

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