250 Box Challenge
4:33 PM, Wednesday September 16th 2020
Happy to hear your critique and tips ;)
Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!
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 (they get really big at the end, wow) 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!
The line weight you added to your boxes is pretty well done. I can see that as you progressed through the lesson you did a better job of making your added line weight blend more seamlessly with the previous marks. There is still some room for improvement there though. While your added line weight improves I still see some areas where you are hesitating a bit. 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. You can read more about that here.
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 on lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Continue to lesson 2!
Alright, thanks a lot Scylla ;)
Rapid Viz is a book after mine own heart, and exists very much in the same spirit of the concepts that inspired Drawabox. It's all about getting your ideas down on the page, doing so quickly and clearly, so as to communicate them to others. These skills are not only critical in design, but also in the myriad of technical and STEM fields that can really benefit from having someone who can facilitate getting one person's idea across to another.
Where Drawabox focuses on developing underlying spatial thinking skills to help facilitate that kind of communication, Rapid Viz's quick and dirty approach can help students loosen up and really move past the irrelevant matters of being "perfect" or "correct", and focus instead on getting your ideas from your brain, onto the page, and into someone else's brain as efficiently as possible.
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