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4:09 PM, Monday July 31st 2023
Hi, I’m ZNorb and I’m going to do the 250 box challenge ciritique:
**Things you can work on:
-Some of your boxes (ex: 2,5,57,84,127,229,232,250) converge in pairs as shown in this image: https://i.imgur.com/KSHwTwo.png
It might help if you think of the relation of the lines as a set of angles of the shape in respective to the vanishing points that the box has. Here’s an example of what I’m saying: https://imgur.com/8PqQLE0
-Another mistake I see is that there are lines that diverge rather than converge (e.g.: 7,85,123,125,157,249), and there are boxes that converge in parallel (e.g.: 77, 109). The lines of the boxes should be touched at the vanishing point, here’s an example of what I’m trying to say about the divergence: https://imgur.com/mWLlnYl
-Although the lineweight is not a requirement of the challenge, it's a recommendation that you also work on it, and in future lessons they also talk about the lineweight ( https://imgur.com/OHvr7Mb https:///d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/980a575e.jpg https://drawabox.com/lesson/250boxes/1/lineweight )
*-The key things we want to remember from this exercise is that the lines should converge in a set and not in pairs, neither diverge from the vanishing point nor make the box completely parallel
**Good things I’ve seen:
-I can see that the lines are made with confidence, lines doesn't have chicken scratching or arching
-You did not forget to make the hatching lines
-You did a good job doing a lot of different perspectives making boxes in many different ways. Experimenting is a very important habit that helps a lot when you want to learn a new skill, keep experimenting!
-Your boxes are getting a lot better and in your last half of boxes the divergences/parallel lines happen much less often
I will mark this lesson as complete, keep doing the boxes and the exercises from the previous lesson as a warmup
Good luck with lesson 2
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Lesson 2
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