250 Box Challenge
5:11 PM, Sunday August 23rd 2020
The 250 boxes I've completed in june
There are additional 53 boxes on the last 10 pages
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3:41 PM, Monday August 24th 2020
Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!
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. Back to your critique.
You did a good job of consistently constructing your boxes with straight, confident looking lines. I can see that you took your time and thought through all of your marks. You also did a pretty good job of adding extra line weight to your boxes and I can see that towards the end you did a better job of getting your sets of line to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points. Great job!
When you go to add weight to a line it is important that you treat the added weight the same way you would a brand new line. That means taking your time to plan and ghost through your mark so that when you go to execute it the mark blends seamlessly with your previous mark. This will allow you to build and create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines.
Finally while your convergences do improve overall I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. So, when you are looking at your sets of lines you want to be focusing only on the lines that share a vanishing point. This does not include lines that share a corner or a plane, only lines that converge towards the same vanishing point. Now when you think of those lines, including those that have not been drawn, you can think about the angles from which they leave the vanishing point. Usually the middle lines have a small angle between them, and this angle will become negligible by the time they reach the box. This can serve as a useful hint.
Congrats again and good luck with lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Continue to lesson 2!
4:00 PM, Monday August 24th 2020
More like the 303 box challange haha
Thanks for your critique and valuable hints!
I'll be more careful about the scans.
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