Hello!
Great job on the challenge. You've made some great improvements in the confidence of your lines and the frequency of diverging lines in your boxes since those starting pages.
Great job on:
Decreasing the wobbliness of lines
Increasing the neatness of your hatching
(With one exception on page 10) Always extending the lines away from the viewer.
Comments:
I see over the course of the challenge you got a much better idea of how the extended lines should converge to each other rather than diverging. However, as late as page 46, you're occasionally getting lines that diverge widely. Make sure you're keeping in mind the way those lines come closer together as they move away from the viewer. https://imgur.com/8PqQLE0
If the convergence lines in one direction are parallel, then the box is in two-point perspective, not three point. And if two sets of convergence lines are parallel, it's in one-point perspective. Your boxes slip into two-point perspective somewhat frequently, which might be because...
Most of your boxes have very shallow foreshortening. That is, your convergence points are way off in the distance, off the page. Here's the link to the part of the challenge recommending both types of foreshortening: https://drawabox.com/lesson/250boxes/1/foreshortening. The last box with more dramatic foreshortening I saw in your set was back in the middle of page 21. I'd suggest practicing some more boxes like that, with the vanishing points much closer to the box. This will help you be clear on the difference between two-point perspective (Plotted Perspective exercise from lesson 1) and three-point perspective (box challenge), get you some practice with dramatic foreshortening, and help you be aware of the wide range of boxes that can be drawn ;)
And if you feel like it, you can start having a go at putting line weight (one extra line, ghosted and confident as usual) on the outer edges of the box.
I am going to request a couple more pages with extreme foreshortening (and if you want, having a go at adding line weight) because this is an area you haven't practiced much and it might help with the occasional divergence problem.
Next Steps:
10 more boxes (with at least one close vanishing point, to practice extreme foreshortening)
Hello!
Thank you for taking the time to go over my work I truly appreciate it. Your comments really helped to solidify concepts from the lessons prior. Here is an additional 10 boxes with the link below. Most of the boxes I have tried to apply a extreme foreshortening,and I also tried adding line weight onto the boxes.
Thanks again!
Great job, I can see you get how to make boxes with extreme foreshortening, which was all I wanted to check. They look good and the lineweight looks good.
Looking forwards to seeing how you do as you continue!
Next Steps:
Ready for Lesson 2
Thank you and I appreciate the review!
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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