Hello,
I named the file from 1 to 43 but for some reason the imgur.com website didn't arrange the photos by numbers (sorry about that).
There are 43 images that I uploaded.
I did 251boxes by mistake (opps) no idea why but I count 58 twice.
Thank you for your hard work :)
Kind regards,
Albert
Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.
Congratulations on completing the box challenge, it's definitely a lot more work than most people expect. Not only does it help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. Be proud of what you've accomplished and that desire you've shown. 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've done well:
Your lines are drawn smoothly and confidently.
This carries over to your hatching lines as well which are neatly spaced rather than rushed as an afterthought.
You're doing a good job of experimenting with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is a great habit to build as it allows you to develop a better understanding of new concepts, I hope you'll continue to nurture and display this habit in the future as well.
Overall your convergences are looking more consistent with fewer cases of boxes becoming distorted from diverging lines.
Things you can work on:
You don't appear to be using much line weight, while not a requirement of the challenge I'd suggest trying to experiment with it more. It's a useful tool and often requires a fair bit of mileage before the user feels comfortable with it.
You tend to stick to similar rates of foreshortening as you move through the challenge, be sure to experiment more so you don't create holes in your skill set.
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.
Overall while you did make some mistakes you have shown quite a bit of noticeable improvement and with more mileage you'll continue this trend and become more consistent. I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 2.
Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2.
Hello,
Thank you for the critiques, I will keep practicing previous exercises to improve my skills more.
A question about this note:
"You tend to stick to similar rates of foreshortening as you move through the challenge, be sure to experiment more so you don't create holes in your skill set."
I tried to rotate the boxes but as you can see it still looks similar, can you give me a suggestion on how to change the rates of foreshortening, so I will be able to experiment with more different rates of foreshortening?
Kind regards,
Albert
Rate of foreshortening is tied to how far away the vanishing point is from the box.
If you take a look at this example again, you can see where the vanishing point is. The closer the VP moves to the box the faster the lines will converge towards one another, the further it is the closer to parallel the lines become.
So to experiment with rates of foreshortening when you create your box slide your vanishing point either closer or further away from your box instead of keeping it at the same distance.
Hope that clears things up a bit.
Thank you for the quick reply.
I thought that if I rotate the boxes (or at least try to), it is alone will affect the rates of foreshortening, and that was my mistake.
I didn't realize that the fact, that when I am choosing about the same distance for my vanishing point makes it looks the same.
Thank you, now it is more clear to me.
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