Finally finished! :) (Hope all these end up in the right order... had fun and games with imgur lol)
I still have issues with some sets of lines going off to separate points, but I think it reduced later on. Definitely struggled with the internal lines.
Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!
You did a really good job overall. Your boxes are consistently well constructed with smooth, confident looking lines and the quality of your mark making continued to improve as you worked your way through the challenge. Your additional line weight also becomes much more subtle and blends in better with your previous marks. Lastly, when I compare your early boxes to your final few pages I can see your sets of parallel lines do a better job of converging towards their shared vanishing points.
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.
You did really well on this challenge and I think with the diagram and more practice you will continue to see improvement. Congrats again and good luck with lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Continue to lesson 2!
Thanks for the critique and thanks for the diagram, it's really helpful! :)
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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