250 Box Challenge
5:52 AM, Monday September 14th 2020
Finally done!
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9:29 PM, Monday September 14th 2020
Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!
You did really well on this challenge. Your mark making is consistent and confident looking while steadily improving throughout the challenge. You also do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points!
One thing that stands out to me about your boxes is the added line weight. You did fairly well adding the line weight but it is a bit heavy. If you look here you can see that the goal is to make your added weight subtle. I recommend that you try making fewer passes in order to make that weight more subtle.
I also notice that your marks have a bit of hesitation to them still, even at the end of the challenge. Just remember that the confidence of the stroke is far and away your top priority. Accuracy is something that you will improve on as you continue working through Drawabox and practice ghosting. While it is important that you use the ghosting method of each mark you make while doing Drawabox one thing you can try to help with ending your marks closer to where you want them is lifting the pen off of the page rather than stopping the motion of your arm.
Finally while your convergences do improve overall I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. So, when you are looking at your sets of lines you want to be focusing only on the lines that share a vanishing point. This does not include lines that share a corner or a plane, only lines that converge towards the same vanishing point. Now when you think of those lines, including those that have not been drawn, you can think about the angles from which they leave the vanishing point. Usually the middle lines have a small angle between them, and this angle will become negligible by the time they reach the box. This can serve as a useful hint.
Congrats again and good luck with lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Continue to lesson 2!
4:00 AM, Tuesday September 15th 2020
Thank you very much for the feedback!
I'll try to keep what you said in mind when doing the next Draw A Box assignments. Especially getting my lines more confident.
Thank you again.
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