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

Something I need to stress right away is that while there is a 2 week period between each allowed submission that this is in no way meant to be a time frame of how fast you're meant to complete each section of the course. Everyone has different amounts of time available, and comes into the course with different levels of experience. The 2 week period is actually there to prevent us from being overwhelmed with submissions as well as an attempt to discourage people from rushing.

The reason I feel the need to stress this is that you completed your box challenge much faster than most students this is not inherently an issue, but it does reflect in your work. You didn't get as much out of this challenge as you could have if you had taken your time.

I'll be attempting to keep this critique brief so you can get back to work.

• Your lines are wobbling and arching which shows you're not drawing confidently and relying on your wrist and elbow rather than your shoulder.

• You're not giving yourself nearly enough time to plan your lines using the ghosting method which is part of the reason your convergences aren't consistent. Each line is a part of a set and that set should converge towards a single vanishing point with each other line in mind.

• It's not a requirement of the challenge but I'd recommend trying to apply line weight. It's a useful tool and one that most people need some mileage with before they can comfortably apply it.

• While you do change your boxes orientations you don't experiment much with proportions or rates of foreshortening. You mostly keep your vanishing points further away from your boxes and try to keep your lines as parallel as you can. There are times where your lines converge to a closer vanishing point but it's difficult to tell if this was intentional or simply an outcome of the way your boxes ended up because it's quite inconsistent.

• Part of this inconsistency comes from the fact that you're imagining your vanishing point between the viewer and your boxes at times. This results in you extending your lines in the wrong direction and your lines diverging from where their actual vanishing point would be, this distorts your box in the process. Here's a guide I wrote that will hopefully help you place your vanishing points and line extensions more consistently.

• 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.

I won't be moving you on to the next lesson just yet. There's a lot that can be improved here and you can still learn a lot from this challenge as well.

I'll be asking you to draw 75 more boxes, do your best to address the issues above and take your time. It's normal for this challenge to take over a month for people and each box usually takes about 10 minutes to draw.

I’m going to ask that you submit these assigned revisions no sooner than December 5th, so you have plenty of time to work through these additional boxes and commit as much time as you need for each and every mark.

I'll also direct you to this video that ScyllaStew created about how she tackled boxes in this challenge. She recorded herself completing some of the course work and it may help give some perspective of just how long some of these exercises can take.

While I do apologize that this critique may have been blunt and may seem harsh know that it's because I know you're capable of better than this. If you want to learn and improve you have to put in your best effort to consciously do so, otherwise you won't get as much out of the material as you could have and it just wastes everyone's time involved.

Once you've completed your boxes reply to this critique with a link and I'll go over them.

I know you're capable of better than this and look forward to seeing your work.