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:

• Your lines are mostly looking smooth and confidently drawn. Don't worry about adding dots to ghost too, that's something that was encouraged earlier in the course. As long as you're not relying on explicitly drawing your vanishing points on the page dots are fine.

• When hatching you're leaving your lines evenly spaced which helps them remain tidy and look well thought out rather than rushed.

• It's good to see that you're trying to apply line weight. Most people feel they need a bit of mileage before they feel comfortable applying it so getting an early start is a good idea. You do get some wobbling when applying it so just remember like any other line confidence is our top priority and accuracy will improve with mileage.

• Good work experimenting with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is an important part of our learning process and helps us form a more well rounded understanding. Keep building this habit in future exercises and it'll serve you well.

• Overall your convergences appear to become more consistent as you progress through the challenge which shows that your sense of 3D space is developing.

Things you can work on:

• There's room to experiment with rates of foreshortening more, you tend to keep your vanishing points as far as you can, mixing it up more will help you in the long run.

• 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 a few mistakes your boxes are improving 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 and boxes as warm ups, and good luck.