250 Box Challenge
9:36 AM, Tuesday November 16th 2021
Hello!
I finally managed to complete the 250 Box Challenge. It was definitely more of a slog for me to get through than Lesson 1. Particularly towards the end, my consistency with working on the challenge was pretty sporadic. Overall, I began the challenge on January 1, 2021, and I finished it on November 7, 2021, so it did take me quite a while.
I know everyone works at their own pace, but I would spend about 20 - 30 minutes on each box, and I did worry that maybe I was wasting too much time overthinking the angle for each line. In particular, I got into the habit of ghosting each of the three initial lines that we use to create the box and essentially "transplanting" that motion for any lines that were parallel. My concern is that I was too focused on completing my boxes this way that I didn't really absorb how to look and plot points that will help create lines that converge with or run parallel to the other lines. To put it in other words, I felt like I focused entirely on replicating the motion of drawing a line at a particular angle, rather than training my eyes to look and plot the correct lines.
As far as my progress throughout the challenge, I feel as though halfway through I didn't make much notable improvement. Towards the end, I still observed myself making the same mistakes with lines converging to soon or diverging, which shouldn't happen.
Regardless, I'm happy to have completed it! I'd be very grateful to hear any critiques you all might have.
- Francis