250 Box Challenge
3:26 AM, Saturday May 14th 2022
i messed up the line weight in the end something i must correct
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2:20 AM, Monday September 19th 2022
I'm going to be reviewing your 250 Box challenge just as I have reviewed your Lesson 1.
Right off the bat I've noticed your boxes are very cluttered. I see that you have even managed to cram 13 boxes into a single page! I think that it would've helped to do less boxes per page. The exercise recommends 6 per page, but I personally prefer 4. This should make it easier on you to see what you are drawing.
Not all of your extending lines for your boxes extend away from the viewer. This is evident in boxes 10, 11, 13, 28, 30, 39, and 50 to name some. Overall it was difficult for me to decipher due to the before-mentioned messiness and the lack of an outside border (which is optional, but helps). It seems that you made that correction yourself towards the end, but it looks way overdone giving an overall cartoony appearance. I would recommend reviewing this section on that.
It's hard to tell, but it looks like a lot of your lines are coming out parallel to each other. Since we are working in 3-Point Perspective for each of these boxes (hence the 3 sets of lines), each of those sets should be gradually getting closer to each other as they extend. Here is an example.
I've noticed some extra wobbliness in your boxes that were not present in your Lesson 1. It seems to me that you were rushing the boxes a bit. Slow done and make confident strokes.
Overall, I feel that your boxes could use a bit more improvements. I will unfortunately have to ask for some revisions before I can mark this as complete. Please make these revisions before moving on in the course. Something that I forgot to mention in your Lesson 1 review is that you need 2 agrees from people in the community before you can have your lesson marked as complete. The critique channel in the Drawabox Discord channel can also help with this.
Next Steps:
10 more boxes so that I can check your progress, followed by 50 more boxes after I have checked the previous 10.
10:04 PM, Tuesday November 1st 2022
Ok 10 more boxes
2:31 AM, Wednesday November 2nd 2022
These are looking really good! Go right ahead to the other 50. Feel free to change the orientation a bit for each one, I noticed that the boxes had a very similar orientation on this round.
Next Steps:
50 More Boxes
7:12 PM, Saturday November 12th 2022
50 more boxes: http://imgur.com/a/k7i3xdh
Pd: sorry for the delay
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