250 Box Challenge
9:16 PM, Saturday August 13th 2022
After a month of drawing many boxes, I have finally completed the challenge!!!
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4:16 PM, Monday August 22nd 2022
Well done on completing 250 boxes and getting it done in only a month.
Looking through your submission, it seems like there were a few issues that persisted through most of your boxes. The biggest one I notice is that almost all of your boxes have pretty dramatic perspective, with the vanishing points being close to the boxes. In some cases, one or more vanishing points was closer to the box than the others, resulting in corners with angles less than 90 degrees and boxes that looked distorted. If you're practicing some more with boxes, try drawing them with faraway vanishing points, even stretching off the page, and try keeping all the vanishing points at similar distances from the box.
The other issue I notice is that you were getting mixed up with your convergences and where the corners should be placed. Sometimes the groups of lines were converging in the wrong direction, or the back corner threw you off. This is something that it looks like you were improving at on the last several pages, but if you haven't already, I'd suggest taking a look at ScyllaStew's video on her approach to the box challenge. She chooses the position of the corners by ghosting out edges and then placing dots where she thinks they'd intersect. Then she makes sure the corners all intersect nicely in the center before she places the back corner.
One other final critique is that your lines have a bit of wobble to them and the hatching lines aren't always going at the same angle.
Next Steps:
Just so that you get a little more practice drawing less dramatic-looking boxes and converging your lines correctly, I'd like to see 15 more boxes. Don't worry if you can't get these perfect, just try your best.
6:42 PM, Tuesday August 23rd 2022
Hello LukeSnywalker, Thank you for critiquing on my 250 Boxes Challenges and I completely agree that I get a confused when I start the procedure on the making the back corners of the box, so I'm glad that you recommended me to watch Scyllastew's video, it was very helpful and gave me more thought on how to draw a box! Here is my revisions on my 15 boxes, on the last page I felt that box 11 was too close to the edge of the paper, so I put another paper behind the box to give it more room when using my red pen to show the convergence.
Here's my revision:
6:23 PM, Wednesday August 24th 2022
The boxes in your revisions of course still aren't perfect, but good work on keeping the vanishing points farther away from the boxes and I'm glad ScyllaStew's video is helping you. This does look like an improvement over your original submission, so I think you can go on to lesson 2. Keep drawing one or two boxes during your warmups though so you can get those convergences down.
Next Steps:
Lesson 2
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