250 Box Challenge
2:48 AM, Saturday May 30th 2020
Watching other people use boxes while drawing during time away from boxes kept me going.
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2:41 PM, Tuesday June 2nd 2020
Hello, I have noticed the amount of uncommented responses in this lesson. I myself have just submitted the 250 box challenge and I thought I would respond to as many of these as possible to the best of my ability.
One thing I noticed with your boxes is how dramatic the poses are. Although form time to time you can draw those kinds of boxes the exercise was more about shallower boxes. To acheive a shallower box just "place" the vanishing point further away (preferably off the page). Some dramatic boxes you made were: 164, 144, 139 ect.
When you do shallower boxes they are more consistant, easier to make and generally look nicer.
All the other problems I have with your boxes stem form the previous mistake. And they are that edges aren't actually going into the right direction. If you improve on making your boxes shallower than this will also be improved.
Your lines are stable and you could see big improvment form page one to the very last page!!
Next Steps:
I would like you to do 10 boxes which are shallow. As simple as that.
I will mark the lesson as complete after you submit this.
2:36 AM, Thursday June 4th 2020
10 shallow boxes right up. Thanks for the feedback
9:39 AM, Thursday June 4th 2020
They definitelly got better in terms of making boxes shallow! Great job.
Hopefully you now understand how to make certain boxes both shallow and dramatic.
Next Steps:
You can move onto lesson 2.
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