Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.

Not only does the challenge help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. 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 keeping your lines smooth and confident for the most part which is good to see.

• You tend to draw large which helps people become more comfortable working from the shoulder and allows them to see their mistakes more clearly.

Things you can work on:

• Hatching and line weight are optional parts of the challenge but ones that I recommend you practice applying. They're useful tools and people often need some mileage with them before they feel like they can utilize them comfortably.

• You're not experimenting much with orientations, proportions, or rates of foreshortening. Instead you keep your boxes fairly similar throughout the challenge and try to make your lines as parallel as you can. Experimenting is an important part of the learning process and how we form a more well rounded understanding of new concepts, without doing so we only improve at drawing one particular style of box.

• There are times when your lines converge in pairs and you often attempt to keep your lines 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.

I won't be moving you on to the next lesson just yet, each lesson builds off concepts in the previous course material so if you move forward with un-addressed issues you end up just creating further issues on top of them.

I'd like you to draw 30 more boxes please. Focus on experimenting by mixing up your boxes orientations, proportions by making longer/thinner/wider boxes, and rates of foreshortening by changing the distance at which you place your vanishing points. This is a good opportunity to try applying hatching and line weight as well.

Once you've completed your boxes reply to this critique with a link to them, I'll address anything that needs to be worked on and once you've shown you're ready I'll move you on to the next lesson.

I know you can do this and look forward to seeing your work.