250 Box Challenge
4:52 PM, Tuesday July 27th 2021
Finaly
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11:46 AM, Monday February 28th 2022
Hello lordlime,
Congratulations on finishing the challenge! It took me an eternity to finish and I am currently awaiting feedback for my boxes as well.
I read this critique guide in case I have some blind spots and I hope my feedback proves helpful!
I like that you experimented a bit with the proportions of the boxes, but i think you could have experimented more with size and the degree of foreshortening as well.
Your lines have quite some wobblyness to them. Did you ghost them and did you draw from the shoulder? Especially with the superimposed line for lineweight I have the feeling you went more for accuracy then for confidence. I would like to remind you that it should be the other way around. That can mean that the lineweight does not quite work, since the two lines are not exactly on top of each other, but on average it looks more clean and neat this way.
I think the biggest issue I see that is specific to the boxes is the fact that your lines rarely converge. They are more often then not parallel at best and diverging at worst. I figure it is quite hard to improve on constructing your boxes if you have no apparent vanishing points as references for how good your aim was.
Because of that and because of the amount of time that has passed between the challenge and now, I would suggest the following:
Reread the instructions on mark making or rewatch the videos.
Use the ghosted planes exercise as a warm up to get into the "ghosting and drawing from the shoulder" mode before you do 5 more pages of boxes (so 25-30 boxes in total) with dramatic foreshortening (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/7/foreshortening). This should give you very clear vanishing points to aim for. After you did the 25-30 boxes with dramatic foreshortening, I would suggest to then lift this restriction again and to play around with different degrees of foreshortening, until you have 50 boxes in total.
In the end, all of your boxes should have three vanishing points. They might be far away and your lines would be close to parallel in that case, but in 3 point perspective there are no perfectly parallel lines on your 2D plane.
I hope my suggestion is useful.
Good luck!
Next Steps:
I would suggest you do 50 more boxes:
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25-30 of them should feature dramatic foreshortening to practice having clear and close vanishing points.
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With the rest of them In would like you to play around with different degrees of foreshortening
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