Hello Draw a box team,
I finally did it! Drawing (and dreaming of) 250 boxes.
I hope they are fine and not too bad.
I still struggle with wonky lines and wrong vanishing points, but I did my best.
I am sorry that the order of the images are wrong on Imgur. It was somehow not possible to sort them. I prepared a second link on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtFundamentals/comments/o2zqj4/250_boxes_later/
Thanks in advance!
Hey there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.
Congratulations on completing the challenge, by no means is it an easy feat and it requires a lot of willpower to stick through the entire thing. Be proud of how far you've come, the accomplishments you've made, and the desire to learn that you've shown.
Overall this was a really solid submission, I do have one or two things to point out for you to work on but largely I'll be trying to keep this brief so you can move on to the next steps ASAP.
Your line work is looking a lot tidier and more confident by the end of the challenge, this is noticeable in your hatching lines as well, good work. I'm glad you're experimenting with line weight as well, it's a useful tool and one that requires a lot of mileage to become comfortable with.
Excellent work experimenting with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening throughout the challenge. This experimentation is key to developing our understanding of all of these concepts and without it we risk ending up only able to a single style of box, keep it up.
One thing I notice you have a habit of doing is making mark for where your vanishing point is on your page, this is something that shouldn't occur if you're following the steps in order. We want to work on our ability to see in 3D space without needing to explicitly draw the point itself.
Other than that it's mostly just things that will improve with more mileage, I will show you this example quickly though. It shows the relation between a set of lines and their respective vanishing point. You'll notice that the inner pair will remain fairly similar unless a box is quite long, while the outer pair varies a lot depending on the location of the vanishing point. The key things to remember are that due to perspective our lines shouldn't be completely parallel, they should always converge as an entire set and they should never diverge from a vanishing point.
With all that said I don't see any reason to keep you from moving on to the next lesson so I'll be marking your submission as complete.
Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck in lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2.
Hello Tofu,
Thanks for the input and critique :)
I'll keep it in mind and try to incorporate it into further exercise.
Have a nice day!
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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