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5:04 PM, Thursday May 7th 2020
Hey, and congrats on finishing this challenge~ I’ll be looking through it, and hopefully giving you some tips that’ll help you take your boxes to the next level.
The first thing I notice is that your lines are still a little wobbly. You’ll remember from lesson 1 that it’s more important for our lines to be confident, than it is for them to be accurate. This is, of course, something that applies to future lessons, too. Be careful, also, that you’re not correcting an incorrect line. This also means that you shouldn’t extend a line that stops short. Simply spend some more time on the next one. Moving on to the actual point of this challenge, the boxes, one thing I notice is that your lines don’t always converge towards their respective vanishing points- sometimes they’ll diverge (i.e. head away from it, rather than towards it.) This is, of course, incorrect. It’s easy to get this wrong when dealing with shallow foreshortening, so a good way to practice it is to try some dramatically foreshortened boxes. Finally, the inner angles of your boxes are a little similar, so there’s not a lot of variety to the boxes themselves.
Next Steps:
Before I let you move on to lesson 2, I’d like to see 25 more boxes. I recommend that you have the foreshortening of the first 10 be really dramatic (meaning, the VPs should be fairly close to the box), and then decrease it a little bit every time, until it becomes shallow. Be particularly mindful of your line-work, and, if you can, experiment with a bunch of angles.
5:22 AM, Thursday June 25th 2020
2:05 PM, Monday June 29th 2020
If you’d be so kind as to take some higher quality pictures of these, I’ll be glad to take a look at them. As it stands, this is really difficult to judge.
3:34 AM, Tuesday July 7th 2020
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These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).