250 Box Challenge
1:30 PM, Tuesday April 6th 2021
Hi,
I'm sorry for the images being in disorder, but Imgur mixes the pictures up... I tried 6 times, serveral times one by one... without succeeding in having all images at once in the right order... At least, I managed to have them all under just one link...
I tried to do my best with this exercice, but I must admit there are several things I didn't like about it :
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some extra weight lines ruined some boxes' edges which where fairly straight
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with shallow forshortening boxes, an error as small as half the width of the pen tip converts sometimes a converging line to a diverging one... especially with lines from the hidden corner of the box
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hidden corner is depending on the construction of the outter corners of the box : you discover your mistake at the end of the drawing... when it is impossible to place the hidden corner with 3 converging lines towards the VPs. One has to be sacrificed to save the 2 others. The error margin of the construction of the outter parts of the box are very small.
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To limit the apparent errors, one solution would be to draw lines with a little bit of excess of convergence to be sure there will be no visible divergence. Considering most of the VPs are outside the page, the fact that the convergences occurs in several different points close together will be less visible than diverging lines... Or simply drawing only boxes with rather parallel lines... I didn't want to "cheat" like that, but the result, if you try not to go the easy way, is really frustrating.
In overall, it is a rather unpleasant exercice.
Anyway, I went to the end !
Box 100 was the first one which I was happy with, and around boxes 160 - 170 something happened in my mind : I think quality of boxes increased a little bit, and they were less difficult and a little bit faster to draw. I started to "see" the shape of the boxes in my mind before drawing them completely, positionning the missing points with instinct with less error and a better precision.
Thanks for having a look at my work,
Have a nice day.