250 Box Challenge
3:49 AM, Tuesday August 10th 2021
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11:23 AM, Tuesday August 10th 2021
First thing i noticed is that you sometimes extended the lines into the wrong direction:
Box 19 shows that, the red lines should be going the other way, this way they would converge towards the same vanishing point. If you draw them diverging, you will not even know if you were right with your perspective.
You should remember to really extend those lines a little longer so you can actually see if they touch at the right point. You tend to only extend them a few centimeters which does not really show you, if you were actually accurate.
Box 16 and 27 show that you seem to have a tendency to give the most outer edge a weird shift. You probably now see that yourself, but a good trick to avoid this mistake is that if 2 edges are visually (so in 2D) very close to each other, that they are gonna be almost parallel. The further they are apart from each other the more convergence they will have.
Another mistake you made is that you cross-hatched the wrong faces. You should only crosshatch the faces/planes that actually face the viewer and not the ones that are on the back side. This just makes it more confusing to yourself. You can see that on Box 42, where you cross hatched the bottom plane of the box. You were probably confused because you seemed to have started by cross hatching the plane faceing the viewer but than you ended up not continuing the cross hatching long enough. You have that same issue on Box 118.
Your boxes got way better towards the end, but you still have some issues with edges diverging instead of converging like on Box 231. Try to really maintain convergence, because this way your perspective will at least make sense. Accuracy is secondary and will come over time. As long as you master the convergence and get rid of the divergence you should be good to go. Problem is that even Box 250 has this issue.
Next Steps:
I know this might be annoying but i advice you to draw 25 more boxes that have no divergence where there should be convergence. I see how you got way better trough those 250 boxes but this is just too big of an issue to just ignore. Trust me you will be grateful to have fully mastered the box later in your journey. Try to also make the perspective a little more extreme this way this convergence problem will probably be more understandable and easier to handle for you.
Alright and dont forget the 50/50 rule, give yourself some time to do what you want and dont get discouraged by this!! You already got a lot out of this :)
12:39 AM, Wednesday August 11th 2021
thank you for critiquing my work! I will try my best to take your points into consideration.However, should I post my extra boxes here, or should I keep it to myself for practice?
Sorry for the inconvenience....???
11:36 AM, Thursday August 12th 2021
Draw them and post the imgur link (or whatever other link) here down in the comments. So you reply to my first critique comments with your revisions basically.
I will then look at it and mark the lesson as complete :)
3:51 PM, Friday August 13th 2021
I know I still have a lot to work on....
Thank you for pointing out my mistakes-it helped me a lot more while drawing!
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