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250 Box Challenge

7:39 AM, Monday July 4th 2022

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Some thoughts when I was doing this exercise:

  • I think the most trouble I am having when trying to make it accurate was the final point. Which for me is the dot inside the box. This is the hardest because you need to take into account the x,y,z axis. At first I only managed to get one axis, but eventually I got two axis. Getting three axis was hardest on some angle, especially those boxes with extreme foreshorterning.

  • Some of the hatching may look wobbly, this is because I use it to practice ghosting from a different angle. Still practicing to ghost from top to bottom or right to left.

  • At first I was pretty conservative with the angles when I was trying to set up the angle. Eventually I found some tricks that I found worked for me. Usually, the farther the line the shorter and try to be a bit more extreme when placing the dots to draw the three dimensional plate of the box.

I took a large break between the exercise, so you might notice a different of quality.

Looking forward to hear your critique!

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7:15 PM, Tuesday July 5th 2022
edited at 7:19 PM, Jul 5th 2022

Hello!

Great work on completing the 250 box challenge.

Hopefully I can give you somewhat helpful critique.

I can see that you had a little trouble in your line extentions going the wrong way in your early boxes but by the end you managed to get them all going in the right direction, so good job with that.

you should try adding a some lineweight to the silhouette of your boxes. a single superimposed line is enough, dont worry about it being accurate just keep it confident using the ghosting method

I can see that most of your lines are drawn pretty confidently but I can see some instances where they wobble (boxes 242 and 248 for example). remember to always use the ghosting method and if the line is at an awkward angle you can always rotate the page to make it more comfortable. remember that you should also use the ghosting method for each and every line including the hatching lines too.

Your lines converge really well, and you dont seem to have an issue with the inner corner that is usually common with a lot of people. the only advice I can give is to try out some different orientations and box sizes. a lot of your boxes look very similar so try introduce some variety. for e.g. a lot of them have dramatic foreshortening, try some with with some shallow foreshortening

Overall I think you did a great job and can move on to the next exercise

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Onto Lesson 2!

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edited at 7:19 PM, Jul 5th 2022
12:15 AM, Wednesday July 6th 2022

Thanks for the critique! I'll try to put more lineweight on the outer lines next time! For the wobble, yes, sometime I just wanted to finish my target that I went a bit faster than usual. I'll try to do more dramatic foreshortening next time to make more variety, I think the reason I didn't do it was that some of the boxed ended up looking more like a triangle with because it was distorted. I shouldn't have given up then :(

I thought the inner corner was the thing I should improve the most, but thank you again for your feedback!

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