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8:37 PM, Tuesday September 15th 2020
Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!
You did really well on this challenge. Your mark making is consistent and confident looking while steadily improving throughout the challenge. You also do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points!
Towards the beginning of the challenge your lines were a bit hesitant and had a bit of wobble. Towards the end of the challenge you do a much better job with this. Your lines are straighter and more confident looking overall. I still see some areas of hesitation but they appear to be more with the added line weight than the original marks. When you go to add weight to a line it is important that you treat the added weight the same way you would a brand new line. That means taking your time to plan and ghost through your mark so that when you go to execute it the mark blends seamlessly with your previous mark. This will allow you to build and create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines.
I also see that when it comes to your hatching you don't appear to be employing the ghosting method here and your hatching looking rushed in many areas. When you are working through Drawabox it is important that you take your time and employ the ghosting method for every mark you make. This includes the hatching we sometimes use on our boxes.
Finally while your convergences do improve overall I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. So, when you are looking at your sets of lines you want to be focusing only on the lines that share a vanishing point. This does not include lines that share a corner or a plane, only lines that converge towards the same vanishing point. Now when you think of those lines, including those that have not been drawn, you can think about the angles from which they leave the vanishing point. Usually the middle lines have a small angle between them, and this angle will become negligible by the time they reach the box. This can serve as a useful hint.
Congrats again and good luck with lesson 2!
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Continue to lesson 2!
9:12 PM, Tuesday September 15th 2020
Thank you. I'll keep your advice in mind as I continue
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