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9:27 PM, Monday September 21st 2020
Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!
Overall you did pretty well on the challenge. I can see some solid improvement in your mark making when I compare your early boxes with your final pages. Your lines are straighter and more confident by the end and you do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points.
The first thing that stands out to me about your boxes is the added line weight. In the future I recommend you pull back a little and try only making 1 pass to add your weight in a way that is more subtle. You can read more about this here. There are also some areas where it appears that you may have been using the added line weight to hide some mistakes. If that is the case make sure that you are not doing that in the future. While working through Drawabox you do not want to hide or correct any mistakes you make.
I also notice that with some of your boxes, your added line weight looks a little wobbly and hesitant. When you go to add weight to a line it is important that you treat the added weight the same way you would a brand new line. That means taking your time to plan and ghost through your mark so that when you go to execute it the mark blends seamlessly with your previous mark. This will allow you to build and create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines. Some of what I am seeing may just be due to you going to heavy with the line weight. But it is still good to keep this in mind.
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!
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