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:

• You're doing a good job of drawing the lines constructing your boxes smoothly and confidently.

• When hatching you're taking the time to space each line evenly which shows that care and thought is being put into each line. This helps your boxes appear solid and tidy rather than rushed.

• Line weight isn't a requirement of the challenge so it's nice to see you're applying it anyways. Most people need to build up some mileage before they feel comfortable applying it so I always recommend starting early. The sooner you feel comfortable the sooner you see better results.

• You're doing a great job of experimenting with orientations, proportions and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is an important habit to build when learning any new skill, it helps form a more well rounded understanding. I hope you'll continue to display and nurture this habit in the future.

Things you can work on:

• 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.

Now let's address your questions quickly.

• It's not a race to get your warm ups done in 10 minutes, if they go a bit longer that's totally fine. Just don't sit there and grind, 10-15 minutes is often enough. If you're doing an exercise that takes longer like rotated boxes, you may find that it'll take up your whole warm up but you also don't need to complete the entire exercise for it to be valuable. You can start it, maybe you get a few boxes completed in 15 minutes and you can reflect on that.

• Yes you should be adding boxes into your warm ups, then when you complete lesson 2 you'll add those exercises in to your pool of exercises to pull from, then lesson 3 etc.

• You're going to be less comfortable working with things other than boxes because you don't have as much experience. This exercise isn't an exercise that trains you to be able to draw every form in every type of perspective. It's an exercise that helps develop your understanding of 3D space so you can tackle these different shapes and hopefully understand what your goal is, what mistakes you're making, and better visualize what you're drawing on your page.

• You did noticeably improve throughout the challenge but your boxes also started off fairly solid to begin with. This means that while you improved it's a lot harder to notice and appreciate the improvement. The better your boxes are the harder it is to improve them because it becomes a matter of refinement. Someone whose lines are wobbling or diverging has major issues that when addressed can look like a completely different person drew them. Long story short, you're being hard on yourself, but there are also still things to work on and improve.

I hope that addresses some of your concerns, if not feel free to ask for more clarity and I'll take another attempt at tackling them or bring in Uncomfortable if necessary.

Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups, and good luck