1:40 PM, Wednesday July 28th 2021
Hello!
First, 250 box challenge really is a hard one after lesson one, so congratulations for making it. I reviewed your work in under some titles that you have problem
- Divergences and parallel lines
Foreshortening most times less than needed. This is the why, even the after 200 boxes, some of them looks isometric or a really long box.
I want you to make sure you practice both of these, perhaps with a bit more of a lean towards the shallower foreshortening. These will be especially relevant in later lessons as we use boxes to construct more complex objects, due to most things we're drawing not being so immensely large. Still, it is valuable to get used to both situations, as they both pose different kinds of challenges.
Like that been said in the lesson you can make more dramatic foreshortening.
A box in 3 point perspective will ALWAYS have their lines converge. They can never diverge, or be parallel.
It is possible for them to converge very slightly, but they have to converge, even if it's really hard to notice it the convergence has to be there.
- Hatching lines
Maybe you can draw more close so they look more vivid
- Lineweight
Like you mentioned, you can make the lines stand out with one stroke without chicken scratching
Just like in lesson 1, lineweight should only be added to the contour of the boxes, and with a superimposed line, one is enough, as it's important to keep it sublte.
When doing this superimposed line, it should be done ghosting and drawing it confidently, having it lose accuracy is acceptable, but having wobble is not. As always, confidence > accuracy.
- Inner corner
You actually did good but to make the inner lines more accurate you can try to guess where the other 3 lines intersect for each lines or you can draw differently like in this one https://imgur.com/a/DHlA3Jh
And finally just to remember, i'm sharing this question
Once I'm done with a lesson, should I ever do these exercises again, or am I done forever?
Ha! No way. You're stuck with these things forever. For lessons 1 and 2, once you're done with a lesson, the exercises from it should be added to a pool. Every time you sit down for a drawing session, pick two or three exercises from that pool and do them for 10-15 minutes. This way you'll continue to develop those technical skills, improving your ability to draw smooth and flowing lines, to construct solid boxes, to reinforce the illusion of volume with contour lines, to wrap your head around how forms interact with each other in 3D space, and so on. These are the base level skills, but they're also the skills that will have the greatest impact on your overall ability to draw. Practicing drawing kangaroos will get you really good at kangaroos - practicing your use of the ghosting method to draw smooth, confident lines will improve everything.
Next Steps:
you can go ahead with the lesson 2 or 250 cylinder challenge, good luck
