250 Box Challenge
12:36 PM, Wednesday September 16th 2020
Hi,
Took a while to finish all 250 boxes! Look forward to the feedback.
Thanks
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.
You did really well on the challenge overall. When I compare your early boxes with your last few sets I can see that your lines are straighter and more confident looking overall. Your boxes are drawn at a good size and you did your line extensions correctly as well. You also do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points!
In the future I recommend that you try adding extra weight to your lines, as shown here. 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.
I noticed that your hatching is not quite as clean and confident looking as the rest of your mark making. Keep in mind that when you are working on Drawabox you want to be employing the ghosting method to plan and execute every mark you make. This includes the hatching that we sometimes use on our boxes.
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!
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.
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