Hi LiamDio, I've checked your submission.
Congratulations on completing the challenge, I'm glad to hear that you learned a lot from it and that you are excited for what is gonna come. I can see that you got better at convergence as you progressed through the lesson and also your boxes look more and more confident! Though, there is still room for improvement.
First of all, I'm seeing that you are having issues with the back corner, welcome to the club. Check this construction method next time you are warming up with some boxes, it really helps to not let the back corner last since it's pretty important.
One a similar note, I wanted to show you a way in which you can check how the convergence of a certain line should be, by relating it not only to one other lines, but taking all the set into account. Check this diagram and see if it clicks, if it doesn't, don't worry just keep visiting for time to time and you will get it. Basically, when you are seeing how a line converges, you should not only compare it with the first converging line, but also check how that line that you are about to put down is related to the others in the set of parallels- In this way, you are guessing more accurate since you are taking into account the whole set, instead of just two.
Two things in which it's not like you did a bad thing but could've done more are the convergences and size of your boxes. Looking at your challenge, I'm seeing that at one point you started doing just really foreshortened boxes and really didn't vary from that much, I'm not saying that because of that you didn't learn, clearly you did, but it was an opportunity to experiment a little more! (though you can still experiment when you warm up with boxes :D). Also, because of the high foreshortening, a lot of your boxes ended up pretty small, in future lessons, try drawing bigger (especially on the lesson 3 and up constructions) since in this way you have more space to use your shoulder full motion, and also it's easier for your brain to engage on spatial problems!
One last thing, I'm noticing that you haven't really applied line weight on the silhouette of your boxes. Line weight it's not an aesthetic choice from this course, it's a tool that we use to clarify how our forms sit and relate with each other in 3d space, in this case, by outlining with a subtle line the silhouette, we make it easier for the viewer to understand how that box is facing them. Revisit this part of the text from the challenge where line weight is explained.
Now, you did a very solid work on this challenge, so I'm gonna go ahead and mark it as completed! Keep it up.
Next Steps:
Feel free to move on to lesson 2!
Here we're getting into the subjective - Gerald Brom is one of my favourite artists (and a pretty fantastic novelist!). That said, if I recommended art books just for the beautiful images contained therein, my list of recommendations would be miles long.
The reason this book is close to my heart is because of its introduction, where Brom goes explains in detail just how he went from being an army brat to one of the most highly respected dark fantasy artists in the world today. I believe that one's work is flavoured by their life's experiences, and discovering the roots from which other artists hail can help give one perspective on their own beginnings, and perhaps their eventual destination as well.
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