Congratulations on getting through your 250 boxes! Your lines look clean, and I see a lot of improvement start to finish. You could use a bit more variety in size/shape/divergence/orientation, but you accomplished the primary goal of learning to estimate converging lines.
It appears that something abruptly "clicked" for you in a good way, around box 97. Before that page, many of your boxes had diverging lines. Afterwards, very few had that issue. What changed for you there?
In any case, good work, and carry on!
Next Steps:
On to lesson 2! Try to get feedback on discord (in the lesson 2 channel) as you go through the lesson, to catch any errors early.
I think I remember the day I was about to do 97 I looked at videos of other people doing the 250 box challenge. I realized why my boxes didn't feel like the examples the instructions showed on the assignment page after watching multiple videos on the assignment the same day.
That's awesome--way to dig into it and figure it out!
Next Steps:
Carry on
I'd been drawing as a hobby for a solid 10 years at least before I finally had the concept of composition explained to me by a friend.
Unlike the spatial reasoning we delve into here, where it's all about understanding the relationships between things in three dimensions, composition is all about understanding what you're drawing as it exists in two dimensions. It's about the silhouettes that are used to represent objects, without concern for what those objects are. It's all just shapes, how those shapes balance against one another, and how their arrangement encourages the viewer's eye to follow a specific path. When it comes to illustration, composition is extremely important, and coming to understand it fundamentally changed how I approached my own work.
Marcos Mateu-Mestre's Framed Ink is among the best books out there on explaining composition, and how to think through the way in which you lay out your work.
Illustration is, at its core, storytelling, and understanding composition will arm you with the tools you'll need to tell stories that occur across a span of time, within the confines of a single frame.
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