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 drawing your lines confidently which results in them appearing smooth rather than wobbly.

• When hatching you're trying to keep your lines evenly spaced which shows that thought and patience is being applied to them rather than just rushing them on to the page as an afterthought.

• You do a great job of experimenting with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is an important part of the learning process and helps us form a more well rounded understanding, I hope you continue to experiment in the future as well.

• Overall your convergences are becoming more consistent with infrequent distorted boxes being created from diverging lines.

Things you can work on:

• At times you try to redraw your lines to cover up mistakes, it doesn't erase the mistake and just makes things appear messy so try not to make it a habit. Mistakes are valuable teaching tools as well and people often stress over them too much, just learn what you can and work with them.

• It's not a requirement of the challenge but I recommend practicing applying line weight. Most people need a bit of mileage before they're comfortable applying it so getting an early start will help you see positive results sooner.

• 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.