Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.
Not only does the challenge help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. Be proud of what you've accomplished and that desire you've shown. That being said I'll try to keep this critique fairly brief so you can get working on the next steps as soon as possible.
Things you did well:
Your line confidence improves by the end of the challenge which results in smooth straight lines rather than wobbly lines.
When hatching your lines are evenly spaced with care rather than rushed.
You're experimenting with proportions and orientations which is great. Experimenting is an important habit to build because it helps us develop a deeper understanding of concepts. I hope you continue to build and demonstrate this habit in the future as well.
Things you can work on:
You're not experimenting with rates of foreshortening much. You tend to keep your vanishing points far away from your boxes and try to keep your lines as parallel as you can, try to move the points closer to have more dramatic foreshortening so you don't just rely on one method.
As you mention you're imaginging your vanishing points in the wrong locations and extending your lines in the opposite direction at times. Here's a diagram I made that will hopefully help you recognize how and where to place your vanishing points in order to consistently extend your lines in the proper direction.
There are times when your lines converge in pairs or you attempt to keep your lines a bit too parallel which results in them diverging. This is an example of lines converging in pairs, and this shows the relation between each line in a set and their respective vanishing point. The inner pair of lines will be quite similar unless the box gets quite long and the outer pair can vary a lot depending on the location of the vanishing point. Move it further away and the lines become closer to parallel while moving it closer increases the rate of foreshortening.
The key things we want to remember from this exercise are that our lines should always converge as a set not in pairs, never diverge from the vanishing point and due to perspective they won't be completely parallel.
I won't be moving you on to the next lesson just yet, each lesson builds off concepts in the previous course material so if you move forward with un-addressed issues you end up just creating further issues on top of them. I'd like you to draw 15 more boxes, you're on the right track but I want to make sure you know how to extend your lines properly as well as have you experiment with foreshortening more.
Once you've completed your boxes reply to this critique with a link to them, I'll address anything that needs to be worked on and once you've shown you're ready I'll move you on to the next lesson.
I know you can do this and look forward to seeing your work.
Next Steps:
15 more boxes.
Hi Tofu
Thank you for the helpful critique. I've attached a link to the 15 boxes. I have still ended up with some diverging lines, and think I may need to just concentrate a little harder and try not to get frustrated and rush the tasks.
Hey there, it's good to see that you're extending your lines in the correct direction now.
That being said you're still not really experimenting with foreshortening much and keeping your vanishing points far from the box.
Considering how quickly these were given after your critique I do get the impression that you may have needed some more time to reflect on what your critique was asking of you.
I'm going to ask you to draw 10 more boxes, you tackled one problem so now it's just a matter of addressing the other.
Remember that as you move a vanishing point closer to the box it's related set of lines will begin to converge more quickly. I'll link this diagram that shows how lines relate to one another and their vanishing point again, if you have any questions feel free to ask.
Next Steps:
10 more boxes.
Thanks for your patience. I've attached 10 more boxes. I felt a bit more confident doing these ones despite some lines diverging still. Hopefully this is better.
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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