250 Box Challenge
11:41 PM, Wednesday February 26th 2020
All 250 broken down into 2 galleries.
https://imgur.com/gallery/qSCtNYM 1 - 117
https://imgur.com/gallery/J4iPeoq 118 - 250
Thank you in advance for critiques and suggestions!
All 250 broken down into 2 galleries.
https://imgur.com/gallery/qSCtNYM 1 - 117
https://imgur.com/gallery/J4iPeoq 118 - 250
Thank you in advance for critiques and suggestions!
Hey there, congratulations on finishing your 250 boxes! You have made a lot of great progress with these boxes. Comparing your first pages to your last ones your line quality has improved, your handle of converging lines, and overall sense of three dimensional space is definitely better. I want to point out the hatching lines as they illustrate a few good things. First of all, the line quality has improved immensely and there aren't any wobbles and hyper-control of the pen tip like in the first pages this is a great thing. Secondly, the lines all have an overall arc to them showing that you could still be using your shoulder a little more, especially since in this case the arced lines give a sense of a bulging face instead of reinforcing the planar nature of the box face.
Moving on to your actual boxes, like I said before your converging lines have gotten a lot better. As is expected at this stage, there are still some issues with the back lines getting skewed off from the overall convergence of your lines, but that's ok and is why uncomfortable has made this infographic to further elaborate on how we should approach these lines to keep them more...in-line with their neighbors, no pun intended. Give this a read and if you have any questions let me know, but I will go over the general gist of it. Essentially, all parallel lines in perspective are a family and they are related to each other via the vanishing point they share. The location of the vp determines the angles between them, as illustrated in the infographic. When you draw things made of parallel lines (a box has 3 sets of 4 parallel lines) you must draw each line with all of the other parallel lines in mind. They are all going to a shared vp and they all have angles between them determined by how far away this vp is. Normally beginners start by drawing a single plane making sure all the convergences are good and then as they go to the next plane they draw it in a vacuum with no consideration given to the first lines they drew which often results in two points of convergence instead of one. So with this information continue to practice boxes in your warm ups while considering all of the other parallel lines and in time you'll really hone in those "back lines" to converge consistently.
Overall though you have followed directions in applying your correction lines at each page and applied what they taught you to your following pages and have shown considerable growth. I will be marking this challenge as complete so you are now free to move on to lesson 2, congratulations!
Next Steps:
You are now free of your 250 box shackles! Feel free to move on to lesson 2. Try not to neglect box practice in you warm ups since after the form intersections of L2 it'll be awhile before you really need to draw boxes again, but being rusty on them is bad news bears! Keep up the good work.
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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