Nice job getting through this all! Theres a couple things I want to point out to you for further improvement:
For positives, your lines are all very confident and straight. I rarely see any instances in your work of line corrections, which are a bad habit, so it's good you've strayed away from that.
Criticism wise, there are a couple important things to point out. The biggest thing I see is that all your boxes do not have converging lines; instead, they are all parallel. The objective of the 250 box challenge isn't to draw perfect linear cubes, but to utilize perspective and varying size to strengthen your knowledge of 3d space. In these boxes, all your lines for one axis should all converge onto one point, either on or off the page. Here's one of my boxes as an example: https://imgur.com/a/TRpFtla. This one isn't perfect, but if you look at the purple lines, you can see that I was shooting at one particular point with my convergences, even if I did land in a wider range than intended. Looking at the red and blue lines, you can see that these all generally converge on their own seperate points. Another thing I noticed is that all your box shapes tend to look the same. You want your boxes in varying perspectives, sizes, shapes, and rotations. When forming your initial Y, you should really shoot to vary the angle of the lines as long as their all above 90 degrees. Proko does a good job explaining this in his video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uEtdDvK6Xo. If you watch through, he sort of explains what each part of the Y represents. He also offers a lot of other useful information for drawing boxes. Heres some more images of my own boxes that should give you a better idea of varied shapes/rotations: https://imgur.com/a/vEaH5ST. For your cross hatching, I noticed you tend to draw lines parallel to the face your drawing them on. You should really aim to draw them diagonally along that particular face instead like I do or Uncomfrotable exemplifies in his video examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlJ6rwj3PKg (another great resource for general box knowledge). Additionally, draw them across the whole face. That is, you should place your pen down on one end of the box and draw a line diagonally all the way to the other side. It's okay if you land short or overshoot, but make sure you at least start your pen on one side of the face.
In terms of just general tips that I would tell anyone that helped me personally, I have a few that could maybe help your art endeavors in the future. I would watch Uncomfortable's second video on drawing a box every now and then to check improvement/refresh your memory on tips you might have missed (linked above). You could also watch Scylla's box drawing tutorial or Uncomfortable's review of their 250 box challenge. I'll link all of these below, if you haven't already seen them. As for stuff I learned, it can be useful to rotate your box as you draw it to better see the places where your lines converge. I'll also link some images that often get passed around in the discord relating to box drawing.
I think it would be generally beneficial to you to draw 50 more boxes after you watch and understand all these resources. This will go on to help you heaps in the future. Take your time with these 50 and make sure to take pride in your progress. Additionally I would consider joining the Drawabox discord in order to actively compare your work to others/ask for feedback every now and then while you work. Feel free to dm me on discord @arculo#5920 or shoot me an email at sugarpig325@gmail.com is you have any questions along the way. I'd be happy to help you in any way I can.
Drawabox discord: https://discord.gg/HwYHNF26mD
Converging angles help: https://imgur.com/a/FwdVnJg
Box drawing steps: https://imgur.com/a/39Z9up8
Scylla's tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mteUPdCHn4s
Scylla's box review:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxXPY6XnCmI
Next Steps:
Draw 50 more boxes, focusing on convergences, hatching, and varying box shapes.
Thank you very much for the info. I reviewed all your references, looked at several examples of others homework examples, and gave it another go. I believe these all make use of much more drastic foreshortening then my prior boxes. Thank you again for the helpful information! Below is the link to the new 50 boxes.
Amazing improvement! These look so much better! Good use of both shallow and drastic foreshortening, and your boxes are more varied now as well. There are still a few boxes where your lines are a little too parallel, but other than that I think you improved drastically.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2
thank you for your comments and your time!! Greatly appreciated!
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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