Hello fellow art traveler, I hope you are well.
Congratulations for completing the challenge! I spent June and July of last year working through it, it's a serious mountain to climb, so well done to you.
Just for your info, I've been working through Draw-A-Box for about 14 months now, I'm currently on the 250 Cylinder Challenge. I can only speak from my own experience, but I have definitely seen my drawing improve, though it is a very gradual process. Anyway, I'll go through your exercises and see if I can give constructive feedback.
Overall I think your convergences are pretty good. It's usually the back faces that are the most difficult, something that helped me was to compare the angles with the straight edge of my pen, not sure if that's cheating or not, but it worked for me.
You seem to have played around with foreshortening quite a bit, the more extreme foreshortening you're likely to see in larger objects or those that are very close to your eye, I suppose it depends on what you plan to draw, but I feel less foreshortened boxes are probably more useful, so if you'e practicing, I would lean towards less foreshortened boxes. Try looking at box-like objects around your home and observe where their lines converge in relation to your view point.
You drew different sizes and proportions of your boxes, I think that's good practice. There are few incidents where you returned lines towards the viewer rather than away to their VP, this happened to me a few times as well, Just check your convergences when you're plotting in your dots/points, that should help to avoid mistakes before you commit to a solid line.
Good work on your freehand hatching, it can be tedious, but it means you're getting the most out of your practice time.
Do try to watch your line weight though, try to get into the habit of superimposing those outer silhouetted lines a 2nd time, it can be a bit messy for a while, but eventually you'll build that confidence and be able to thicken any line you want.
Well done Cuvid, I can see your boxes already improving in your Lesson 2 submission. Keep practicing and good luck on your journey!
Next Steps:
To Lesson 02 and beyond!
Thank you very much for your review, mate! Appreciate it a lot.
Cheers Cuvid :)
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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