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250 Box Challenge

3:55 PM, Thursday February 13th 2020

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Hi Uncomfortable, hi Squigaloo, hi everyone else!

Here are my 250 boxes. 251 technically..

Besides the perspective stuff which I am sure you will give me solid feedback on, I have one specific question / concern: I´ve had, and still have, problems hitting the lines twice freehand sometimes, for line weight. Sometimes it worked, but sometimes as you see it resulted in ugly double lines that don´t quite match and look just AAARGH. Not sure I was doing this one right. Is that even how you do it at all, or do you do it all over draw pressure/speed instead of hitting the line twice, or..?

Thanks in advance for your feedback. Hope you like the bonus box turtles turtles :D

Cheers!

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2:26 AM, Saturday February 15th 2020

Hey there, Jay. Good job on completing the challenge! I love the box turtles, they gave me a smile.

Regarding your question about the line weight, yes you are correct that it is about drawing a new line on top of the old one. Remember to use the ghosting method and draw confidently from the shoulder. To practice this, incorporate the super imposed lines exercise into your warm ups and it'll get better.

In terms of overall development, you have made great strides in terms of the solidity of your forms and sense of 3d space. Your convergences are consistently improving as well. You already are aware of the application of line weight so I won't belabor that and I will go on to talking about converging lines. Overall you are on a pretty good track, there are some lines that get away from you here and there, but overall they are heading all in the general direction they should be. Occasionally your back lines get skewed and that is why uncomfortable has made the infographic. As you see, the "trick" to getting your back lines to converge with the others, or more generally, getting all parallel lines to converge, is to think of them as a family. They are all related to one another by the vanishing point and the angle between them is determined by the distance of the VP. Often times we focus too much on a single plane and the two pairs of lines then work on the next plane in isolation resulting in two points of convergence. When you begin to step back and draw each line with consideration given to all the other lines things start to fall into place. Over all you are on the right track though! You followed the directions carefully, applied your check lines and grew from what they showed you, and you did your 250. Challenge complete!

Next Steps:

Good job. Your next step is lesson 2. Keep boxes in your warm up rotation as it can be easy to neglect them during the course of all the organic lessons, but you don't want to get rusty! Keep up the good work.

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1:14 PM, Saturday February 15th 2020

Cool, cheers! :)

EAT THIS, 3D SPACE!! I AM THE LORD OF THE UNIVERSE!!!!! MUAHHAHA :D

...How many boxes should I be doing within my warm-ups? :)

2:17 PM, Saturday February 15th 2020

Whatever feels right ;) I usually recommend practicing larger boxes in warmups since in the later lessons you'll be drawing objects and cars within a box that is much larger than the ones you practiced during this challenge. I'd say boxes that are large enough where 2 or 3 fill up the page.

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