250 Box Challenge
1:46 AM, Sunday December 4th 2022
Here is my 250 box challange
Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.
Not only does the challenge help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. That being said I'll try to keep this critique fairly brief so you can get working on the next steps as soon as possible.
Things you did well:
Your construction lines are looking smooth and confidently drawn.
You're doing a good job of experimenting with orientations, and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is an important habit to build when learning any new skill, it helps form a more well rounded understanding. I hope you'll continue to display and nurture this habit in the future.
Things you can work on:
They're not a requirement of the challenge but I recommend practicing applying hatching and line weight in your future work. They're useful tools to learn and the only way to improve is to practice.
I'd like you to expeirment with proportions more. Try mixing in some longer/thinner/wider boxes to see how your lines behave in different scenarios.
You appear to have missed an important instruction in the challenge which is that you want to be extending all 3 set of lines as demonstrated here. This leads to you not getting as much information as you could have and also likely limited the amount of improvement you could have had during the challenge.
There are times when your lines converge in pairs or you attempt to keep your lines a bit too parallel which results in them diverging. This is an example of lines converging in pairs, and this shows the relation between each line in a set and their respective vanishing point. The inner pair of lines will be quite similar unless the box gets quite long and the outer pair can vary a lot depending on the location of the vanishing point. Move it further away and the lines become closer to parallel while moving it closer increases the rate of foreshortening.
The key things we want to remember from this exercise are that our lines should always converge as a set not in pairs, never diverge from the vanishing point and due to perspective they won't be completely parallel.
I won't be moving you on to the next lesson just yet, each lesson builds off concepts in the previous course material so if you move forward with un-addressed issues you end up just creating further issues on top of them.
I'll be asking you to draw 30 more boxes please. Keep experimenting with rates of foreshortening, be sure to experiment with proportions and make sure you extend all 3 sets of lines in every box.
Once you've completed your boxes reply to this critique with a link to them, I'll address anything that needs to be worked on and once you've shown you're ready I'll move you on to the next lesson.
I know you can do this and look forward to seeing your work.
Next Steps:
30 more boxes.
So I've done the revision as you told me, keeping in mind my mistakes. But for some reason I can't draw the vanishing points accurately like Comfortable
I tried to correct it , I feel like I got them more accurate
These are mostly well done, there is the occasional mistake like extending some of your lines incorrectly in box 3, or not extending all 3 sets in boxes 1 and 2, but largely these are looking better.
If you're worried about not doing as well as Uncomfortable there's 2 important things to remember, he's using digital tools to make the video faster and the challenge a bit easier and that he's also likely a lot more experienced working with these concepts, don't underestimate how important mileage is.
The thing that concerns me the most in these boxes is that you're using whiteout to erase mistakes or abandoning boxes that you feel aren't good enough, one of the reasons we use ink is so that we have to work with our mistakes, they are valuable and we learn from them. Knowing you can erase your mistakes also tends to cause people to not take as much time planning as they need to, so please don't erase your mistakes going forward, you'll be asked to redo exercises if you do.
All that aside I believe you've shown enough improvement here that you understand the core ideas and will continue to improve with more mileage so I'll be marking your submission complete.
Keep practicing boxes and previous exercises as warm ups and best of luck in lesson 2.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2.
thank you, Tofu, I just want to ask you something about lesson 2 exercise. On the texture analysis exercise, I Have to write notes besides the texture that I've done, I want to know if I need to write these notes in english, or can I write in my native language?
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