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250 box challenge, how to draw boxes?

10:41 AM, Wednesday November 8th 2023

I have begun the 250 box challenge around a month ago, and I think I am spending too much time on each box... It takes me around 25 minutes to draw one box, is that too much time? I tried doing it quicker yet it only caused my boxes to be extremly bad (some of them you can barely call boxes), am I overthinking it? additionally, I find myself ghosting all the way to where I think the vanishing point is then trying to ghost back to my points in order to know how to draw each line, am I supposed to do it or am I supposed to do this process in my head and kind of imagine where the vanishing point is?

So I guess my question is if any of you has any tips for this challenge, and how do you draw your boxes?

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11:08 PM, Wednesday November 8th 2023

It would take me about an hour to get through a page of 5, but that varies. What do your boxes look like? (Also, you can get a page of them critiqued in the "basic challenges" channel of discord, so you can see if you're on the right track before plowing through 250.)

Here's another way to look at drawing boxes: https://imgur.com/a/CP1JmaB

Step 2 (which takes up 2 slides) and step 3 are the most critical to understand.

2:17 PM, Saturday November 11th 2023

Thanks for telling me about the critique in the discord, I might do it later. about my boxes: the ones I spend a lot of time on are decent, not perfect but they are usually at least close to have the same vanishing point, the ones I tried to do faster are... well some of them are fine, others can barely be called boxes (I usually messed up completely at least one line).

I understand (at least I think I do) step 2 and 3 yet every time I try to "predict" where the vanishing point is I find myself having trouble and use much (much) time on trying to ghost to where I think the VP is and ghost back to the point I am trying to find the line of.

I think I will try to continue doing it the way that takes a lot of time meanwhile, but thanks!

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2:27 AM, Saturday November 11th 2023

I highly recommend you take your time and don't rush even if it feels like the box is taking too long you'll only cheat yourself on a learning experiences, experiment on differnt was to approch drawing it and see what works best for you, I had so many techniques I tried during the process by the end I was pretty comfortable with it, you'll gain speed with time.

2:18 PM, Saturday November 11th 2023

Alright, I will try. Thanks!

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6:08 PM, Monday November 13th 2023

I think you should take as much time as you need on each part of the exercise. Regardless of how long it takes you to do each part, remember that the point of the exercise is to build up your confidence in drawing boxes confidently. In terms of tips for the exercise the way i would do it is using the "Y" method of constructing boxes taught in the lesson and not stressing the result too much. What i would do is take notes on the side of my 250 box challenge to myself to understand my approach on drawing the boxes, then i would look back at them for the first 150 to understand what i needed to improve on or how i approached drawing the boxes. As long as your drawing confidently and in a way thats comfortable to you , you'll be fine in the end.

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