After all a very useful exercise. I could enhance my understanding of 3D space and my linework got better (which doesn't always show through though). I couldn't completely turn down the habit of redrawing lines, this is something i will have to work on. But my accuracy improved.
-Ozzy
Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!
You did really well on the challenge overall. Your lines are consistently straight and confident looking. While you had some hesitation showing early on in the challenge, towards the end you do a good job of eliminating that from your mark making. I can see that you experimented with adding line weight to your boxes. While it was a little hesitant and wobbly towards the beginning, you really nail it later on. You also do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points.
While your convergences do improve overall I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. So, when you are looking at your sets of lines you want to be focusing only on the lines that share a vanishing point. This does not include lines that share a corner or a plane, only lines that converge towards the same vanishing point. Now when you think of those lines, including those that have not been drawn, you can think about the angles from which they leave the vanishing point. Usually the middle lines have a small angle between them, and this angle will become negligible by the time they reach the box. This can serve as a useful hint.
Congrats again and good luck with lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Continue to lesson 2!
While I have a massive library of non-instructional art books I've collected over the years, there's only a handful that are actually important to me. This is one of them - so much so that I jammed my copy into my overstuffed backpack when flying back from my parents' house just so I could have it at my apartment. My back's been sore for a week.
The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.
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