250 Box Challenge
6:15 PM, Monday April 20th 2020
As agreed with Imposter, submitting 100 boxes instead of 250 due to previous experience.
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3:09 PM, Wednesday April 22nd 2020
Howdy, TA qzhans here!
Congratulations on running another 100 times into the box gauntlet!
You’ve painstakingly drawn through all your boxes and extended every single last line out to check your errors, and your boxes have been better for it. Overall, you improve through the set, both in linework and convergences.
Your linework in general is clean and confident. There were some places at the start where I saw some re-drawn lines or patched up ones, but that seemed to clear up towards the end. You still have some arcing in your linework, but I'm pleased to see that you worked around it rather than trying to cover it up somehow with more lines, etc.
I do think you could’ve experimented with lineweight more on the silhouettes of your boxes to help them pop out. You have kind of a weird read issue due to your pen kind of dying, so sometimes the inside lines are actually thicker than the outside ones. This could have been dealt with by just going over another time on those outside lines.
Also, although you've done a pretty good job with convergences, some of your middle back lines are still stubbornly not jumping in line with the rest of them. That’s okay, and is something that gets ironed out over time, but I’ll offer some advice. When you go to draw a line, think only about the lines that are supposed to be parallel to it (share a vanishing point). Lines closer to an existing line will converge slower, while the opposite is true for lines further away.
In general, I’m not seeing any egregious errors that should stop you from moving onto Lesson 2. Good luck on the rest of Drawabox!
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Sakura Pigma Microns
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.