250 Box Challenge

1:29 PM, Saturday August 15th 2020

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Wow this has been one intense ride! I think I did learn something, but I think I approached the exercise in a wrong way unfortunately.

One of the mistakes I think I made was focusing to much on the vanishing points in the hopes that that would just make each box correct. At the very end of the challenge I decided to let that go a bit more and just get a bit more of a 'feel' for each box. This helped me much more in getting an intuition and getting to understand (I don't fully grasp it yet) the relation between foreshortening and the vanishing points. So I think that that is a huge loss on my side and wish I would have spend more time on making boxes that way.

In general I found it very difficult, I don't think there are a lot of boxes that really aren't correct. I will move on for now, but I might retry the challenge after all the lessons.

Also as you can see I traced all the lines freehand, I presumed that that was suggested. This means that a lot of boxes don't have clean outer lines.

Thank you (all) for taking a look!

5:07 PM, Saturday August 15th 2020

Hi and congrats on completing this challenge! So after a quick glance I want to say that this is a really good submission for reasons that I'll get into below. https://i.imgur.com/8PqQLE0.png So starting with this graphic there were a few cases in your first 100 or so boxes where you were having problems with diverging lines and is very apparent in the blue lines for box #56. One of the most important things to remember is that boxes that are receding in space will ALWAYS converge towards a vanishing point and never diverge. That said I I do think you already have a very good understanding of this. You did a great job extending the lines on all of your boxes correctly which tells me you understand how the vanishing points work in relation to your boxes. You also have a very good mix of boxes with very extreme foreshortening and boxes with very little foreshortening and this is a great way to sharpen your skills when it comes to correctly estimating convergences. To be honest I don't have much advice to give you because you are already properly challenging yourself and working outside of your comfort zone. I don't think you fell into any particularly lazy habits and you kept trying new ways of constructing boxes and your submission is really fantastic and showed a lot of growth because of this. Now of course you aren't always getting your convergences right and that is the entire point of doing an exercise like this. It's not going to be right at first and you need to remain diligent in your practice. I think you have a pretty good grasp of how to construct a box at this point and your improvements are going to come much more gradually. It's pretty clear to me that you are still using the ghosting method and it's working quite well and your linework is smooth and confident for the most part. In terms of adding line weight I think you are going about it the correct way and are ghosting and drawing from the shoulder with confidence. Your accuracy isn't there yet but that will grow with practice.

Overall, this was a fantastic submission that showed a lot of growth and your convergences will just get better and better with more practice. I would actually advice against retrying the challenge. When you do the 250 cylinder challenge later on in these lessons you will have to draw 150 boxes for that, which you will place cylinders inside, and those will be a nice step up in difficulty for you. Keep up the hard work good luck with lesson 2!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
5:26 PM, Sunday August 16th 2020

Thank you so much for your feedback, I really appreciate it!!!

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