250 Box Challenge
8:33 PM, Tuesday September 8th 2020
It's been a month...
Hi Hairy tbh I wasn't even going to review/respond to this post but after looking at your profile and seeing you've been waiting a while I feel obliged to. Okay at first I did skim through your drawing but when I saw they were out of order and hard to see the number it sort of made me not want to review it, so in the future I think you should do the most to make your work as easy to review or else people will just think its a little extra work that they'd rather not deal with and review another post.
After looking through each page I can see there are some boxes that you just gave up on because they looked bad/there was no point in finishing them cause they look messed up. I would encourage you to try and avoid doing this a part of Draw A Box is to come to accept mistake and acknowledge them, what went wrong, why it went wrong, and how to avoid it in the attempt/drawing to come. I can see that your boxes definately improved overtime I think you could have fit more boxes on some of the pages that only have 3 but that not a big issue. Towards the end of the pages your boxes definitely are a lot more accurate but I can see that the inner lines still cause you some problems, sometimes the hit very close other times they diverge instead of converge. Something that I discovered while doing the challenge myself to fix this is to see/ghost where I want each inner line to go before finishing the box and then drawing my outer lines to those specifications. If thats confusing I'd be more than happy to show you what I mean. Other than that I think you definitely learned through this challenge so I think its okay for you to move on to lesson 2, keeping in mind to keep your work clean looking (that doesn't mean it has to look good because they definitely aren't expected to look like a masterpiece) clean as in making them easy to look at and review. Congratulations!
side not while I was looking through your profile I didn't see lesson one have you completed it or did you remove it? Just out of curiosity
Next Steps:
Move on to Lesson 2, remember to warmup before each drawing session for 10-25 minutes of exercises from lesson 1 and also now occasionally doing some boxes like from this challenge.
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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