Congratulations on finishing the 250 Box Challenge.
First I want to say your lines are very good and confident. The correction lines are extended correctly. In some of them, hatching lines are rushed, so next time take your time with your hatching lines. If you draw your hatching lines more carefully, the box will appear more clean and solid.
I see a lot of parallel lines and divergence. Don't forget, in 3 point perspective, every set of lines should converge to a specific vanishing point. They can't be parallel or diverge. Every three sets of 4 lines will converge towards a single vanishing point. In the boxes where you apply more foreshortening, the lines converge more, but when you apply little foreshortening the lines become parallel, or they diverge. You can check this explanation to understand the convergence better. Also, this order of drawing boxes may help you with the inner corners.
I would recommend you check the lesson material and the lesson video one more time to understand the convergence and then make 12 more boxes. This time it might be better to change the variety of boxes and draw fewer boxes on one page. It might be four boxes per page. This way you can see how the extended lines converge or diverge better.
Next Steps:
Check the lesson materials one more time and after that draw 12 more boxes.
Hi Kamiyasora,
Thanks a bunch for your critique and your suggestions, it's much appreciated!
I'll for sure keep an eye on making my lines too parallel. In an attempt to keep the foreshortening shallow - as suggested in the lesson - I went a bit too far overboard on a some of them, which as you mentioned in some cases also resulted in divergent lines.
Unfortunately the divergent lines are very much due to plotting incorrectly, as I'm well aware that it's something which is not supposed to be happening. It is actually quite worrysome to me that it seems from these 250 boxes that I do not know how convergence in 3 point perspective works - so I'll for sure draw more boxes before moving on.
Thanks once again for your input!
If it is a plotting problem, practicing Ghosted Lines exercise might help you. You can use dots to plan out the lines of the box before drawing the actuaal line, and if you think that one dot isn't working for you, you can just draw another one that will create a better line. I had the same problem in my first pages too, but using dots and the ghosting method really helped me planning my boxes better.
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
This website uses cookies. You can read more about what we do with them, read our privacy policy.
