250 Box Challenge
6:53 AM, Sunday June 7th 2020
Forgot to add the all boxes on my last upload ????
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10:46 AM, Sunday June 7th 2020
Hi,
Great job getting though all the boxes! I like how you applied line width to some of the boxes, for example 198 and 199 look very nice.
It feels to me that most of your boxes are drawn in parallel perspective and miss conversion towards the distant viewpoints. Maybe it would be good if you took a look again at the concept for foreshortening (https://drawabox.com/lesson/250boxes/1/foreshortening) and try to play with that concept so that you get more diverse boxes. Another thing that I noticed is that your front side is often very parallel to the viewer. One can see that the edges are nearly perpendicular (90° angle), (for the front side - i.e. the shaded side). You could try more diverse views onto the boxes, for example by using the 'y's generated by https://tasty-tangy-meeting.glitch.me/# as a starting point.
I hope this gives you some pointers where you could train further!
Keep drawing!
Eilrah
Next Steps:
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Two pages of boxes with extreme foreshortening. The line extensions you draw to check should meet on the page.
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Two pages of boxes, where the front is side does not have right angles (90°).
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