250 Box Challenge

5:04 PM, Friday March 5th 2021

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My 250 Box Challenge 2021

This was indeed challenging, but I'm kinda proud of making it to the end. I would really appreciate your feedback, and I hope you like them. At the very least you can laugh at my mistakes!

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2:14 PM, Saturday March 6th 2021

Hi Dead_Dino, I've checked your submission.

Congratulations on completing the challenge! I can that by the end of the lesson you start to hit your convergences more, and you boxes look better! Though, there are some things that I want to touch on.

First of all, nice job on adding line weight, people usually skip this step. However, there are some issues on how you are applying it; remember that it's supposed to be just one subtle line applied on top of your other line with the same method as the super imposed lines exercises. I'm seeing that your making mainly two big mistakes:

  • Wobbly lines: this got better as you progress through the lesson, though I still some some here and there. The main issue here is that you are focusing too much on confident over accuracy, when you should be prioritizing making smooth, confident lines. If you found yourself hesitating when doing lines, keep doing the ghosting method until you feel confident, that's why we do it, to make everything we can before the actual line, when the tip of the pen touches the paper, there is nothing more we can do, that's why you should prepare every one of your lines to be as confident as posible, accuracy will come eventually with time and practice.

  • Correcting your lines: this is especially visible on your last pages, don't do this, it just makes everything look messy and undermines the confidence of your boxes. This issue comes from the same source as the wobbly lines, whatever you can do to make a line good, it's before you do the actual line, in the ghosting method. Always apply the ghosting method before your lines.

This issues can also be applied to your normal lines, though I added them here because I mostly saw them when you were applying line weight.

Also, check out this comment Uncomfy made on hesitation.

One thing that I want to advice you on is to draw bigger: when you do this, it not only gives you more space to apply confident lines from your shoulder, but it also helps engage your brain's spatial reasoning skill.

I'm seeing that you are having issues with the back corner, here is another way to construct our boxes that will help you with that! Try to apply it whenever you are warming up with some boxes.

One last thing, for quite a lot of your boxes you purposely draw them with perfectly parallel lines that extend on to an "infinite" vanishing on space. That's not the idea of his exercise, you can see in the challenge page that our focus here is to deal with the convergence of our boxes to their respective vanishing points, this can be more far aways and create a more gradual and subtle convergence, but we are always make them converge.

Now, I'm gonna mark this challenge as completed! Keep it up.

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Lesson 2!

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5:31 PM, Saturday March 6th 2021

Thank you so much! This was really helpful and keeps me in check with what I must keep an out for moving forward.

6:45 PM, Saturday March 6th 2021

Your welcome! I'm glad you found my critique useful!

Keep it up.

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