250 Box Challenge

10:29 PM, Wednesday August 11th 2021

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This was my 250 boxes challenge. It took me almost 2 months to complete and it was really REALLY exhausting xD. I think I've improved in understanding tridimensional space a little bit more :d.

Any kind of feedback is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance

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2:59 AM, Wednesday August 25th 2021

Of course fatal Quiet you have shown a great amount of improvements at the end of this challenge. thats fantastic. Alrighty lets roll the intro:

hey there! I'm chiran and I decided to check your submission and offer my insights on your work.

In this case I'll try my best to provide helpful analysis on your work by breaking down into three parts.

these are the name given specifically because of their order and to represent the specific section of the boxes

Newbies - ( 1-100 boxes) 2. Intermediates - (101-200 boxes) and 3. pros - ( 201- 250 boxes)

Alrighty! lets starts exploring the three parts.

PART 1: THE PRAISES ( The job you did well in the challenge):

  • checking the mistakes: you did a great job by checking the boxes convergences by extending the lines aways from the viewer.by identifying where it went wrong, you did able to construct the boxes which has some good amount of convergences. ( like we can see on intermediates and pros) so hats off for that!

  • while line weight and hatching are optional in this challenge. I'm glad that you did take time to use those tools to reinforce the form you are constructing ( in this case box). we advice you to continue using those tools even in warm ups to build mileages with them.

  • I can say that you are building a sense of confidence and patience in drawing your boxes by plotting down the starting and end points of the lines first before executing them or before committing them, so thats nice.

  • I like your way of experimenting with your boxes.you did take time to construct various types of boxes with different orientation, proportion and foreshortening throughout this challenge so thats great!

  • How are your lines? : your lines are awesome, they are smooth, confident and are ghosted before they are drawn so thats good job.You got some pretty decent amount of convergence on the intermediates and pros so good job on that too!

PART 2: WHERE IT WENT SLIGHTLY OFF? ( Where you should keep an eye on) ( No worries part!)

I think you are Quickly headed in the right direction and you have understood the concept of perspective very well so the box challenge has done its job.but there are some hiccups in your work that needs to be identified and removed.

so yeah I will do my job to mention and identify some of the minor issues in your works and you can do your job by including 1-2 boxes in your warm ups to reduce them in the future.

  • of course you had improved throughout the challenge but there are times where some of the set of lines converges at a faster rates than the others resulting in converging in pairs. yep this issue you can definitely work on, in your warm ups. by trying to know the relationships between each lines related to its distance.

  • Sometimes It seems that you didn't take time to plan your hatching lines and rushed a bit therefore ending like a scribbling a bit. ( like we can see on end of newbies and intermediates).and also sometimes the lines get a little bit wobblier even on the hatching lines and super imposed lines. so our advise is to always treat every lines you draw with respect even hatching and super imposed lines. How do we treat with respect?- first we should plan where our lines will start and end by plotting the points and ghost them several times ( hovering in motion) and draw them with confidence and from the shoulder.

  • It's completely and totally normal to have the back corner line slightly off compared to the rest.they have significantly improved at end of your work so nice job!.

PART 3: THE JOB WE CAN DO TO IMPROVE OUR BOXES IN OUR WARM UPS:

You're making good progress towards understanding the concepts introduced in this challenge, below I'll be listing some things that will hopefully help you in your future attempts at these boxes.

  • Always make an effort to take your time while adding line weight and hatching to boxes in order to reinforce the solidity we are conveying. make sure to plan them before executing them.bocaue every marks we make should serve its purposes.

  • THE INNER CORNER PARADOX: In this challenge, we are estimating where our lines going to converge to a point. as we are humans, it is almost impossible to perfectly estimate where our lines will going to converge thereby resulting in an error. this error will continue to accumulate as we construct the box freely rotated in space. finally this accumulated error will be thrown to the back corner. So its pretty normal to have the inner back corner come out pretty off.

I want to take a look at this info here;https://i.imgur.com/8PqQLE0.png

In this image we can know that how each line will behave relating to the position from its neighbouring edges and the VP.So we can arrive at the conclusion that, If the distance between the internal edges and external edges gets reduce more and more they will eventually become parallel to one and another ( but keep in mind they will converge slightly at a negligable amount no matter what). Alternatively If the distance between the internal corner and the external grow more and more the internal line will also converge.

you can also try and start from the back corner if the box is narrower.https://imgur.com/a/DHlA3Jh.

if your aware of these notes, then you need to build mileage by including 1-2 boxes in your daily warm up routine. after that your boxes will get better and better and will eventually make you happy at the end. :D. I encourage you to experiment with your boxes in your warm up by constructing various degrees of angles and proportions ( big and small boxes ) ( remember the angle should be greater than 90 degrees ) various rotation and perspective ( shallow foreshortening and rapid foreshortening)

and have fun with It.

MY POINT OF VIEW:

we all know, this challenge was very intimidating because of constructing 250 boxes arbitrarily rotated in 3d and yet you did a great job by keeping persistent till the end with lots of effort, focus, energy and time so hats off for that.

" A BOX A DAY KEEP OUR ISSUES AWAY"

Yes, We've come to the end of this feedback. overall, this was a solid submission Your submission reveals that you did take time to read through the lesson materials, followed the instructions and executed to your best of your ability. so that's good job!..thank you for submitting your assignment to the community I will mark this challenge as complete.

Yippee! we have completed this challenge. congratulations!. I hope this feedback helps . Have a wonderful artistic journey. keep goin

Thank you Fatal quiet.

Next Steps:

what next?

  1. feel free to move onto lesson 2.

  2. If you want to tackle the advanced box exercises like subdivided boxes and boxes in strings . feel free to do so. I encourage this as well.

  3. provide some time for your warm ups at the beginning of your drawing session. don't forget about the lesson 1 Exercises.

Thank you!

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11:45 AM, Wednesday August 25th 2021

Yo chiran thank you so much for this awesome critique! I'll be paying attention to the notes and suggestions you gave me in order for me to improve even more. Thanks again! :D

2:56 AM, Thursday August 26th 2021

I'm happy that I was able to help! you fatal Quiet. I'm confident that you will improve even more. good luck on your future lessons.

Thank you so much for your time and effort in responding to my feedback. have a great day :D

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