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4:22 PM, Saturday November 5th 2022

Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.

Not only does the challenge help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. That being said I'll try to keep this critique fairly brief so you can get working on the next steps as soon as possible.

Things you did well:

  • Your construction lines are looking smooth and confidently drawn.

Things you can work on:

  • They're not a requirement of the challenge but I recommend practicing applying hatching and line weight in your future work. They're useful tools to learn and the only way to improve is to practice.

  • The largest issue with your submission is that you ignored/missed some very important instructions that were stressed here. You were asked to vary your boxes not just draw the same box 250 times, you've gotten better at drawing this box sure but you didn't really challenge yourself to see how your lines would behave in different scenarios or see how your boxes would result from that behaviour.

The key things we want to remember from this exercise are that our lines should always converge as a set not in pairs, never diverge from the vanishing point and due to perspective they won't be completely parallel.

I won't be moving you on to the next lesson just yet, each lesson builds off concepts in the previous course material so if you move forward with un-addressed issues you end up just creating further issues on top of them.

I'll be asking you to draw 40 more boxes please. Experiment with different rates of foreshortening, proportions and orientations. Challenging yourself is an important part of learning. This is a good opportunity to get some hatching and line weight practice in as well.

Once you've completed your boxes reply to this critique with a link to them, I'll address anything that needs to be worked on and once you've shown you're ready I'll move you on to the next lesson.

I know you can do this and look forward to seeing your work.

Next Steps:

40 more boxes

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
1:48 PM, Monday November 7th 2022

Alright. faire enough. my mistake. will get on the 40boxes. thanks for feedback :)

2:26 PM, Monday February 27th 2023

Hello :)

here's the link to the additional 40boxes. I tried my best.

Best From Berlin,

Nadia

https://imgur.com/a/z0dQNwM

8:21 PM, Monday February 27th 2023

At times you're placing your vanishing point between the viewer and your boxes (the bottom box and the box directly above it on the 4th page are examples of this). This leads to you extending your lines in the wrong direction and your boxes becoming distorted because your lines are actually diverging from where the vanishing point would actually be. Here's a guide I wrote that will hopefully help you place your vanishing points and line extensions more consistently. If you need some more examples you can find them here and a simplified guide below.

Other than that there's till room to keep experimenting with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening but that is something you're able to tackle in your warm ups so I'll be marking your submission complete.

Keep practicing boxes and previous exercises in your warm ups and best of luck in lesson 2.

Next Steps:

Move on to lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
1:07 PM, Tuesday February 28th 2023

thanks! I will try.

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