250 Box Challenge
12:14 AM, Wednesday April 1st 2020
I hope to hear your critique. Thanks for viewing and stay healthy!
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4:31 AM, Tuesday May 5th 2020
Nice job finishing the challenge!
Several of your later boxes have lines extended improperly, 213 and 214 for example, the lines for these boxes would be diverging if you had extended them in the proper direction. The number of later boxes with this mistake is something to pay close attention to, If you plan out your box and where the faces orient you should be able to avoid this problem. Remember, that the closer a plane is to you the less of it you will see as explained here.
I also think you would benefit from drawing less boxes per page, the recommended amount is 4-5, drawing them bigger helps you plan better even if it's harder to get accurate lines, you will get better at it.
Your hatching looks a bit rushed, make sure to make every stroke count, every line is a chance to practice confidence and accuracy.
Next Steps:
I would like to see you work on 20 more boxes, with only 5 boxes per page, carefully plan out your box with the dot method and try to imagine what your box will look like before you finish constructing it.
10:24 AM, Sunday May 10th 2020
Thank you for replying my post and i've just seen your other reply on my 2nd post (i thought no one got chance to read the first one).
So i drew more boxes as you said with more patience this time.
8:43 PM, Sunday May 10th 2020
Thank you for continuing to work on this! Your new pages look a lot cleaner and your boxes are more solid feeling as a result, as well as your hatching looking much cleaner and deliberate, keep up the good work.
You still have a few persisting issues, namely, your extension lines being drawn in the wrong direction take a look at this for some more info. Both 14 and 17 have this issue, are you thinking about how the lines move away from you as you plan your box?
Next Steps:
If you would draw 10 more boxes in the manner of the last 20, being nice and deliberate. This time pay close attention to the direction you extend your lines and do y our best to extend them away from the camera pov, even if they diverge when you do.
10:04 AM, Monday May 11th 2020
While i was drawing boxes like 14 or 17, i was thinking i was somehow below it and give me that kind of angle that the box would be. Maybe that was one of those issues i have. I'll work on it. Thanks a lot.
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