Hello I’ll be handling the critique for your 250 box challenge
Linework
-Starting with your linework, I can see that you are using the ghosting method to good effect, ast most of your lines are accurate while maintaining good accuracy. Sometimes it is hard to see your them because the extension lines overlap a good deal, but the major issue I want to call out is that you have a tendency to repeat them, if a line goes wrong do not try to correct it by drawing on top of it as it only makes it stand out more, by getting rid of this habit you will develop the patience necessary to do your assignments to the best of your ability.
-It is nice to see that you are using hatching, and you it is looking tidy rather than rushed, but I don’t really see that you used lineweight, it is not a necessary requirement but it is definitely important that you get used to it, as it is a very useful tool to use when we have a lot of objects overlapping together. The important thing to keep in mind is that you should be subtle with it and use it very sparingly, so only add one superimposed line and ghost it so that it ends up fully confident. This diagram shows how to apply lineweight correctly and you can also see it here applied in the context of a box.
Box Construction
-You have used the line extension method correctly, only on a few instances you extended them in the wrong direction and most of your sets of lines converge which is correct, what you should keep and eye out for is lines converging in pairs as shown here one thing that can help you with this is to start thinking about the relationship between each pairs of lines and the angles they form respective to their vanishing points, in this diagram you can see that the inner pair of lines are always quite similar and the outer pair can vary a lot depending on the location of the vanishing point, the further away you place it and the closer to parallel the outer pair will be. Due to perspective our lines will never diverge nor be fully parallel.
-Lastly I want you to keep experimenting with the orientations and rates of foreshortening, I think you have stuck mostly to dramatic rates, so don’t forget to keep practicing with more shallow rates and placing the vanishing points far away. If you have trouble coming up with new orientations you can take a look at this image and use it as reference, try to keep playing with the proportions too. Experimenting is a good habit as it helps us to form a better understanding of the concepts we are exploring in these lessons. I hope you will keep displaying and nurturing this habit in the future.
Okayy, you have a few things to keep working on but I have no doubt you will continue to improve with more mileage and , I'll go ahead and mark this challenge as complete
Next Steps:
Lesson 2
Thank you very much Beckerito! That was very helpful. I'll save those guides so I keep them in mind when I'm practicing.
Where the rest of my recommendations tend to be for specific products, this one is a little more general. It's about printer paper.
As discussed in Lesson 0, printer paper (A4 or 8.5"x11") is what we recommend. It's well suited to the kind of tools we're using, and the nature of the work we're doing (in terms of size). But a lot of students still feel driven to sketchbooks, either by a desire to feel more like an artist, or to be able to compile their work as they go through the course.
Neither is a good enough reason to use something that is going to more expensive, more complex in terms of finding the right kind for the tools we're using, more stress-inducing (in terms of not wanting to "ruin" a sketchbook - we make a lot of mistakes throughout the work in this course), and more likely to keep you from developing the habits we try to instill in our students (like rotating the page to find a comfortable angle of approach).
Whether you grab the ream of printer paper linked here, a different brand, or pick one up from a store near you - do yourself a favour and don't make things even more difficult for you. And if you want to compile your work, you can always keep it in a folder, and even have it bound into a book when you're done.
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