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8:03 AM, Wednesday June 30th 2021
Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.
Congratulations on completing the 250 box challenge! While usually I love to dig into the positives of a student's work, I have a big pile of work to get through, and we're suffering through a pretty brutal heat wave - so I'll just get right into it.
Things you did well:
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Your line work has cleaned up a lot, it's looking much more confident and tidy by the end of the challenge.
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Your hatching and line weight are applied confidently and is clearly well planned, great work.
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You experimented a lot with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening. Experimentation is the key to deepening our understanding so this is definitely a good habit to nurture.
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You drew large which helps you become more comfortable using your shoulder and seeing mistakes more clearly.
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While your boxes in the beginning weren't bad you're clearly more comfortable working with convergences now, there's fewer instances of your lines diverging which is a huge step forward.
Things you need to work on:
- There are moments where your lines are converging in pairs as shown here that is a mistake we can work on. If you take a look at this example it shows how each line in a set relates to one another and their 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.
Overall this was a solid submission so I'll be moving you on to the next lesson, keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck!
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2.
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