Hello I’ll be handling the critique for your 250 box challenge-
Linework
-You have done a great job with your lines, they are looking really confident while maintaining good accuracy which definitely helped your boxes look more solid and believable.
-I can see that you did not use lineweight, it is not a necessary requirement but it is important that you get used to it as you will be relying on it in future lessons. It is a useful tool to imbue or form with extra solidity, and it will avoid that your drawing just reads as a set of lines. Make sure to give it a try in the future.
-You only used hatching on a few boxes, this is another useful tool as it helps to clarify the orientation of our boxes in 3D space. The important thing to keep in mind is that you should keep it as tidy as possible, because those lines are sitting on a completely flat surface.
Box Construction
-You did a good job using the line extension method as they were always extended in the right direction, you did not struggle too much with diverging lines and your sets seem to converge, which is correct. Just keep an eye for lines converging in pairs as shown here , the more you practice the better you will get at this and eventually your lines will converge in sets rather than pairs. Also I wanted to quickly redirect you to this image which shows the relationship between each pair of lines and the angles they form respective to their vanishing points.
-I’d like you to play more with boxes with dramatic foreshortening, I think you stuck mostly to boxes with shallow rates of foreshortening with the vanishing points far away from the boxes.
-Also it is important that you try to experiment more with the orientation of the boxes, most of them look similar and I think you did not think much about the angles and proportions of the boxes. If you have trouble imagining or visualizing them, take a look at this image and use it as reference.
Those are the main things you need to keep working on, make sure to try all of the things I suggested here, keep in mind that experimenting is a good habit, as it helps us to better grasp the concepts we are learning and thus it gives us a more grounded knowledge.
Overall you did a good job here, I’ll go ahead and mark this as complete.
Next Steps:
Lesson 2
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! I'll keep all those in mind, especially the hatching & line weight, for the next exercises. I'll try to do more boxes in my free time or as a warm up so I can try out the box construction suggestions you gave me!
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