250 Box Challenge
11:08 AM, Friday July 3rd 2020
This took me so long, but it was worth it. I definitely see progress and would appreciate any feedback.
Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!
You did really well overall and I can see a lot of overall improvement as you moved through the challenge. The construction of your boxes improved a lot as well by the end. I can also see that by the end you also do a much better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points.
While your boxes are very clean looking and well constructed, I would recommend that you try adding some weight to your boxes as shown here. This should help push your boxes even further than you already have.
Finally 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.
You did a great job overall on this challenge. Good luck with lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Continue to lesson 2!
Michael Hampton is one of my favourite figure drawing teachers, specifically because of how he approaches things from a basis of structure, which as you have probably noted from Drawabox, is a big priority for me. Gesture however is the opposite of structure however - they both exist at opposite ends of a spectrum, where structure promotes solidity and structure (and can on its own result in stiffness and rigidity), gesture focuses on motion and fluidity, which can result in things that are ephemeral, not quite feeling solid and stable.
With structure and spatial reasoning in his very bones, he still provides an excellent exploration of gesture, but in a visual language in something that we here appreciate greatly, and that's not something you can find everywhere.
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