250 Box Challenge
9:00 AM, Sunday July 30th 2023
Hopefully everything's there.
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5:10 PM, Tuesday September 5th 2023
Congratulations! You're done and these look fabulous! The lines are clean and confident, you have a variety of box types and convergences, the hatching is pretty, the colored lines check everything correctly.
Your line quality improved visibly between the start and end of this challenge, and it looks like you have a good sense of space here.
Next Steps:
On to lesson 2! (And when you do warm ups, be sure to include on ellipses/curves, both small and huge, cause you'll need them for lessons 3-5.)
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Sketching: The Basics
A lot of folks have heard about Scott Robertson's "How to Draw" - it's basically a classic at this point, and deservedly so. It's also a book that a lot of people struggle with, for the simple reason that they expect it to be a manual or a lesson plan explaining, well... how to draw. It's a reasonable assumption, but I've found that book to be more of a reference book - like an encyclopedia for perspective problems, more useful to people who already have a good basis in perspective.
Sketching: The Basics is a far better choice for beginners. It's more digestible, and while it introduces a lot of similar concepts, it does so in a manner more suited to those earlier in their studies.
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