250 Box Challenge
6:15 PM, Sunday June 27th 2021
I feel like this really helped me with line confidence!
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10:36 AM, Wednesday July 28th 2021
Hello there SethLynch, I have critiqued your lesson 2 and am now critquing your 250 boxes as promised. If you don't get a critique even after waiting for long, head over to the critiques exchange on the drawabox discord server, you'll be able to get a critique in exhange for 5 others that you do.
Now for your critique.
As you said, there's a considerable improvement in line quality as you progressed from the start to the end of the challenge. I see that you've done a decent job applying line weight and hatching in the challenge, so good job on having the patience to take your time to do these properly.
The biggest concern I have is that fact that after the first 50 boxes, none of them have any foreshortening applied to them. Boxes with that shallow of a foreshortening are rather rare and most boxes go have some foreshortening applied to them. You have medium foreshortening in most of the boxes among the first 50 which is nice to see since they are the hardest, but you absolutely need more familiarity with dramatic foreshortening.
Next Steps:
Another 25 boxes with dramatic foreshortening
1:06 PM, Tuesday August 3rd 2021
Hello again :) Thank you for checking out my boxes! Okay I will add some more foreshortening practice to my routine and get some more mileage on them!
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