FirmNoise

Well I'm both surprised and glad I've gotten a review, apologies for not noticing sooner.

Would you say that the converging improved over time or that it had remained a relatively consistent fault throughout? I know early on I was too focused on making the VP far, which I then tried to pull back on, and kept having a debate throughout afterwards on whether they were being too shallow or too deep.

Nevertheless I'll try to keep that diagram and your explanation more in mind for the future, I'm definitely not perfect at it even after all of this.

The choice for digital is actually more for my sake to post here, I'd be willing to work with physical/traditional mediums but as I currently would not be comfortable enough to actually submit anything here; possibly later I'd get over this irrationality and redo the course as is recommended.

I'll admit to actually undoing some lines, however those wouldn't be visible, and I believe you may actually be seeing my (inaccurate) silhouette lines.

I'm not sure I really have the time set aside for doing practice boxes per day, but I'll consider it.

The 50% rule is something I have taken to heart, and I'd say is a contributor to the long time for completion of this challenge, alongside me just being slow. I have actually been setting minimum-time drawing sessions since before I started, however sometimes I'm simply sluggish (it was common for me to have only drawn around 2-3 boxes in a day, which would become even worse due to 50% rule free drawing and having started doing non-DaB studies after starting the challenge.

Thanks again, even if you don't get receive this.

The way you're going at it is entirely fine, the challenge is pretty early into the course so you're not expected to have mastered drawing your lines; doing the challenge plus the warmups will help you improve at it alongside the main objectives of the challenge.

While what Uncomfortable is true, if you genuinely feel you need to know this magical minimum time limit, set one for yourself and commit to it as much as you can feasibly can each day; I started off with 45 minutes and have increased it to about 90 nowdays and find it to be what I can keep myself focused with.

I don't believe there is a strict rule against doing hatching with a ruler, however it probably should be done freehand for practicality reasons; with a ruler you'll likely spend unnecessary extra time trying to keep them straight and aligned when the hatching's main purpose is just to help your eyes know which face is towards them.

For the 250 box challenge you are not supposed to pick vanishing ponts before hand and try to draw to them. Instead, you are meant to develop an intuition about the direction all the edges are converging.

I'm fairly new still to the challenge and have been mentally placing a vanishing point to try and keep the lines on track towards; I'll try to keep this in mind going forward.

I looked at about nine of the submissions and was still not sure about the answer to my question afterwards; but I then read the material a few times and I guess the term extending used to explain the self-check is the closest there is to an answer, so it seems I'll extend through the lines instead of their plots.

Yeah, that's what I thought as well, it's just a little confusing since the examples surrounding line extensions are all perfect-case scenarios. I'll work on extending the intended lines for the work and maybe place a little more time into training my final lines in the warmup exercises to hopefully alleviate the issue as I continue.

I'm a little confused in what you mean, so I'll clarify that I'm asking if when checking where the extension lines (the "using a ruler" part of the assignments) are supposed to center on: the plotted points or the drawn line that (ideally, but is not always, and can be considerably off) would connect those two points.