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:

• Your construction lines are mostly looking smooth and confidently drawn by the end of the challenge.

• It's good to see that you're taking the time to plan and evenly space your hatching lines just remember to draw them confidently as well.

• You're doing a great job of experimenting with orientations. 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:

• Line weight isn't a requirement of the challenge but I do recommend practicing it in your future attempts. It's an incredibly useful tool but one that people often require a fair bit of mileage before they feel comfortable applying it. The sooner you start to build up that mileage the sooner you'll see better results.

• You're drawing way too small, I'd like you to draw larger in the future. Drawing large will help you become more comfortable working from the shoulder and allow you to see any mistakes you've made more clearly. We recommended 5-6 large boxes per page.

• I'd like you to experiment with proportions and rates of foreshortening more. At the moment most of your boxes are fairly similar in terms of shape, try mixing in some longer/thinner/wider boxes to see how your lines behave in different scenarios. As for foreshortening it appears like you don't have vanishing points clearly in mind when drawing your boxes, your lines are diverging wildly and they rarely converge consistently. You mostly try to keep your lines as parallel as you can with one set of lines possibly converging, try bringing your vanishing points in closer so that your lines have to converge more dramatically.

• 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, 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 100 more boxes please. Focus on keeping more concrete vanishing points in mind so that you get your convergences under control. Draw larger and experiment with proportions and rates of foreshortening as well.

If you have any questions before you get started feel free to ask them.

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.