250 Box Challenge
4:39 PM, Sunday October 22nd 2023
I learned a lot from this challenge!
Hello 14thmoon, congrats on beating the 250 box challenge!
First of all, I just want to compliment you on the improvement that’s seen in your boxes. Both your line confidence and perspective have improved tremendously during this challenge. Your boxes are very solid and believeable.
Here are some things to remember when doing this exercise as a warm-up:
Lineweight: Lineweight should only be added around the silhouette of the box, not to every line. You managed to make your lineweight much more subtle when comparing box 250 to box 1, but it could be even more subtle; adding only one line should be enough. https://drawabox.com/lesson/250boxes/1/lineweight
Wobbling lines: Some of your lines, mostly the hatching lines and line weight seem to wobble. Make sure that you’re ghosting your lines and draw them quickly. Don't be afraid to overshoot these lines, confidence is more important than accuracy in this course, since you'll learn to be more accurate over time.
Adding variation: Try to add more variation in your boxes, go extreme with them, experiment! Try drawing very long boxes, very flat boxes, very dramatic foreshortening and any other shape that you can think of. All of those boxes will be useful in your drawing journey. Here’s a good image for box orientation: https://imgur.com/Kqg6uMX
Additional exercise: Boxes on a string. If you haven’t seen this page already, it’s worth checking out. This exercise is optional, but it might be fun to incorporate in your warm-ups after you tackled the first section of lesson 2 (thinking in 3D): https://drawabox.com/lesson/250boxes/2/string I’ve been told that it’s better to hold off subdividing boxes until you’ve reached lesson 6.
All in all, your submission shows that you understand this exercise very well. You’re ready to move on to lesson 2, good luck!
Next Steps:
Lesson 2
Funkymills, thank you so much for the feedback! I really appreciate the compliments and the important reminders. I’ll keep them in the front of my mind during my warm-ups, and I’ll be sure to try out the boxes on a string exercise after section 1 of lesson 2!
I'm glad that my critique was helpful to you, have a nice day!
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