250 Box Challenge
7:24 AM, Tuesday August 3rd 2021
for some reason it didn't load all 250 boxes so here's my 2nd attempt
hello nanochan!.thanks for submitting your assignments to the community.I'm chiran ,today I'm here to go over your submission and try my best to provide solid, helpful analysis of your work by breaking down into 3 parts.
I wanted to say that things look pretty amazing and I can say that you had put a lot of effort, focus and time to finish the challenge and you are doing great too!
before we begin,these are the name given specifically because of their order and to represent the specific section of the boxes
This feedback will consists of three parts. to know more about these 3 parts, lets jump in!
PART 1: THE PRAISES ( The job you did well):
As always First, I would like to say that you did a great job for checking your mistakes by extending the 3 sets of lines away from the viewer.Because of identifying your mistakes, your intermediates and pros boxes are looking great!.
Lines : How are your lines? Your lines are smooth, confident and are planned before executed, meaning you did take time to plan where your lines starts and ends by plotting down the points.may I ask why those lines are shaking in the newbies section? Oh! Is this because of the pen? Okay nice pen.
while line weight and hatching are optional in this challenge, I'm glad to see that you are beginning to build the sense of form ( in this case box) using these tools.I can say that you prioritized confidence over perfection even while drawing those lines.so good job!
I'm glad that you did take time to construct various types of boxes with different orientation, proportion and foreshortening throughout this challenge without any similar orientation or same type of boxes.
You got some pretty decent amount of convergence on the intermediates and pros so good job on that too!.
PART 2: WHERE IT WENT SLIGHTLY OFF? ( Where you should keep an eye on) ( No worries part!)
I just want to remind you here ;relating to the rule of perspective; All the parallel line in the 3d world will appear to converge to a specific VP. so what we can say that our parallel lines should always converge as a set not in pairs and they will never diverge from the VP as this will broke the rule of perspective.
THE INNER CORNER PARADOX: this info is always mentioned to every one why? Because I want to mention here, so that your mind will remind you next time, to avoid those mistakes.
In this challenge, we are estimating where our lines going to converge to a point. as we are humans, it is almost impossible to perfectly estimate where our lines will going to converge thereby resulting in an error. this error will continue to accumulate as we construct the box freely rotated in space. finally this accumulated error will be thrown to the back corner. So its pretty normal to have the inner back corner come out pretty off.
I want to take a look at this info here;https://i.imgur.com/8PqQLE0.png
In this image we can know that how each line will behave relating to the position from its neighbouring edges and the VP.So we can arrive at the conclusion that, If the distance between the internal edges and external edges gets reduce more and more they will eventually become parallel to one and another. Alternatively If the distance between the internal corner and the external grow more and more the internal line will also converge.The diagram can be pretty hard to understand at first, so if you don't understand it, don't get frustrated, keep reading it from time to time while practicing regularly, and it will click eventually.you can also try and start from the back corner if the box is narrower.https://imgur.com/a/DHlA3Jh
MY POINT OF VIEW:
we all know, this challenge was very intimidating because of constructing 250 boxes arbitrarily rotated in 3D space and yet you did a great job by keeping persistent till the end with lots of effort, focus, energy and time so hats off for that.
also never forget to incorporate these mentioned points in your regular warm ups. construct 1-2 boxes daily as a warm up .
Yes, We've come to the end of this feedback. overall, this was a solid submission Your submission reveals that you did take time to read through the lesson materials, followed the instructions and executed to your best of your ability. so that's good job!. I will mark this challenge as complete.
hurray! You have completed this challenge. congratulations!. I hope this feedback helps . Have a wonderful journey!
thank you, nanochan!
Next Steps:
feel free to move onto lesson 2
Also include some dramatic foreshortening boxes in your warm up routine by thinking that the Vps are very close to the box.I'm pretty confident that your spatial reasoning will be much more improved later on.
Having any questions related to the exercise?-feel free to reach us out at draw a box discord server. we will be happy to help
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