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5:57 PM, Monday July 11th 2022
Hello Bhakti123!!
I'll critique your submission :)
Congratulations on achieving 250 boxes! It's a lot of hard work so well done.
You've done a really good job of keeping your boxes tidy, your hatching is very good with good attention to keeping the lines evenly spaced.
It's very good that you've tried experimenting with different proportions of boxes (e.g. longer, wider, flatter, cube-like, etc. and differing degrees of foreshortening) I would suggest that you try to do this even more as even though your boxes are different proportions with regards to longer ones and flatter ones, etc. you could do with experimenting more with the amount of foreshortening, as most have very shallow foreshortening (VPs which are far from the box). You can do this by having one, two and three axes have dramatic foreshortening, as in for example 'x' axis having dramatic foreshortening and 'y' and 'z' having shallow foreshortening, or maybe 'x' and 'y' dramatic and 'z' shallow.
One mistake I can see fairly often, which can't exactly be helped when you're first learning and trying to just get to grips with the whole 3 VPs thing, is that your lines sometimes converge in pairs like this so try to pay attention to this when drawing your boxes as you now know this is something you're prone to. Here is something to help you, it illustrates the relation of each line on the axis to the VP, when lines converge in pairs it's because on of the lines is diverging from the VP.
Overall you have done fantastically well and you are ready to move on to lesson two!
Next Steps:
Move onto lesson 2.
7:26 AM, Tuesday July 12th 2022
Thanks a lot for reviewing my work :) As you said I will try some dramatic foreshortening boxes as well.Also the reason for lines converging in pairs helped me understand my mistake so I will keep that in mind from now.
4:19 PM, Wednesday July 13th 2022
No problem, I just realised the links don't work that I put in the text, the first link is https://imgur.com/KSHwTwo and the second one is https://imgur.com/8PqQLE0
(I hope I've put them the right way round haha)
Good luck :D
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