Hi,
Submitting the 250 box challenge. This one was intense to do and takes a lot of focus. I think my best boxes are somewhere in the middle of the challenge. From 200th box and onwards I started doing them faster and I feel like they became a bit more deformed there. Appreciating any feedback!
Congrats on finishing the box challenge, good job overall!
Here are a few things I've noticed:
-When adding lineweight to the silhouette, you tend to slowly trace over the previous line; don't do this. When adding lineweight do it with a confident superimposed line, focusing on confidence over accuracy as always.
-Convergences have improved over the set, but I can see you still have trouble with the inner corner, which is perfectly normal. Here's an order on drawing boxes that helped me get it better.
Another thing that helps as well is to start thinking about the complete set of lines when adding a new one, instead of just thinking about lines in pairs. Here's a diagram that goes over it.
Overall like I said, pretty good job, I recommend looking into the advanced exercises once you get the inner corner well consistently.
Good luck with lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Congratulations on finishing lesson the box challenge! Your next step is lesson 2
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 and box challenge submissions.
-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts. I can atest to that after having done hundreds of critiques. There are a lot of concepts that I did not understand, and thanks to critiquing I started understanding them. Which made me learn a lot more through the course.
-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high and if you do some critiques, those would be less submissions I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster. Uncomfortable also implemented a system that makes your submissions appear higher in the queue if you do critiques, so that would improve your chances even more.
It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.
Good luck on lesson 2, and keep up the good work!
NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.
and here's another on critiquing box challenge submissions.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to, so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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