How much variety should we have in our 250 Box Challenge? Should we vary perspectives (1, 2, or 3) and foreshortening? I've done a few pages so far, and they all basically look like the 3-point perspective box from the video, except sometimes upside or sideways.
We generally suggest that the absolute majority of your boxes be in 3 point perspective in a variety of different foreshortenings - that is, some more extreme and some more subtle. You're welcome to include some 1 and 2 point perspective as well, but the main focus is honing your 3 point perspective as naturally, it's harder to grapple with 3 sets of parallel lines.
The instructions say to start with the Y shape. This automatically means 3 point perspective.
What you can vary is the angles and sizes of the Y shape arms. The angles can vary all the way from 90 degree to up to 180 degrees. Though obviously the sum of the angles will always be 360. So if one angle is close to 180 degrees the other two must be close to 90 degrees (180 + 90 + 90 = 360). Play with different combinations of angle while sticking to the "greater than 90 degrees" rule. Every such possible combination is a different (valid) box.
Foreshortening shouldn't be too dramatic, but you can also play around with it a bit.
There's a lot possible boxes even with those rules. If you are always doing the same box then you need to explore the limits of the above rules further.
When I started the challenge (currently sitting at 60 boxes) a lot of my earlier boxes looked the same.
As I went along and got more comfortable with making mistakes I started playing more into the foreshortening and that has spiced up my boxes a bit.
My advice would be to challenge yourself with some of the boxes angles, we have to do 250 of them so a few really bad attempts isn't the end of the world. :)
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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