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5:21 PM, Saturday May 30th 2020
Before we begin I just want to mention that in the future, when you go to scan your homework submissions, it would be better to scan your homework using the "photo" setting instead of the "drawing" setting. The drawing setting tends to up the contrast on an image and can cause you to lose some of the subtlety in your line work. I'm not entirely sure that this is the case here but just in case I thought I'd mention it.
Congratulations on completing the 250 box challenge! You did well and I can see a lot of good improvement overall in your work! Comparing your work at the start with your boxes at the end I can see that you do a better job of getting your sets of lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points and your overall construction has improved a lot as well. You also do a better job of adding more subtle line weight to your boxes by the end.
This diagram should help you improve on your convergences more, specifically when looking at the middle lines in your sets of parallel lines. When thinking about your sets of lines you want to focus only on the lines that share a vanishing point, not the lines that share a corner or a plane. When you look at the lines that share a vanishing point, including those that haven't been drawn, you can think about the angles at which they leave the vanishing point. Usually be the time the middle lines reaches your boxes the angle between them is negligible. This serves as a useful hint and should be helpful when constructing future boxes.
Overall you did a very good job and it looks like you learned a lot. Hopefully what I've shown you here will help you improve even more as you continue on to lesson 2!
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Continue to lesson 2!
1:11 PM, Monday June 1st 2020
Thanks for the critique! I had a lot of trouble with the lines on the back of the boxes. Like, the third and last line on the back would always be really tilted away from the vp because I missed the right spot where the first two should connect. Could you give me some advice about it?
6:25 PM, Monday June 1st 2020
I actually made a video a while ago, showing how I approach drawing boxes. I recommend you give it a watch. Hopefully the more "in person" example will help!
11:59 AM, Tuesday June 2nd 2020
Whoa great video! Thanks a lot!
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