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250 Box Challenge

7:57 PM, Saturday June 26th 2021

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* I went through my first pen in the middle of this exercise. 

* I usually did a whole page (5 boxes) per day, so it took me some time to complete this. 

* I feel like sometimes my line work is off because I use a soft mat and use uneven pressure. 

* Two additional things to note are that I did not use ghosting or proper form for the striped lines because the lines were so short and that I made the outer lines of the boxes thicker by drawing over the lines twice instead of applying more pressure. This made bad lines more apparent unfortunately.
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8:37 AM, Wednesday June 30th 2021
edited at 9:30 AM, Jun 30th 2021

Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.

Congratulations on completing the 250 box challenge! While usually I love to dig into the positives of a student's work, I have a big pile of work to get through, and we're suffering through a pretty brutal heat wave - so I'll just get right into it.

Before getting started though I will quickly congratulate you on going through your first pen, and mention that there's nothing wrong with taking your time, it often pays off in the long run. Soft mats can definitely effect pressure.

Things you did well:

  • Your line work and line weight are looking tidier and more confident by the end of the challenge. There are moments where your accuracy could be better but with more mileage this will improve, addressing your mat issue may help as well.

  • You experimented a lot with foreshortening, proportions and orientations. Experimentation is a key habit to build in order to develop a deeper understanding of new concepts so I'm glad you're building it early.

  • Your convergences have improved and there are few cases of distortion caused by diverging lines.

Things you can work on:

  • You still overshoot your stopping point when drawing lines at times, you've definitely improved but I'll offer a helpful trick if you aren't already making use of it. When drawing your lines instead of stopping with your pen on the page, try lifting your pen while moving, this will require you to build up muscle memory and you may over/undershoot your lines to start with but once that muscle memory is built you'll maintain line confidence while learning when to lift in order to stop at your intended point.

  • You not ghosting or using proper form for your hatching lines is definitely noticeable, there's a fair bit of wobbling occurring at times. Remember that no matter how large or small the line we want to be using the ghosted technique and proper form.

  • Your lines tend to converge in pairs an example of what I mean is shown here, this is a mistake we can work on as it tends to create some distortion in our boxes. If you take a look at this example it shows how each line in a set relates to one another and their 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 this was a solid submission, you may have things to work on but I have no doubt you'll improve with mileage so I'll be moving you on to the next lesson, keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck!

Next Steps:

Move on to lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
edited at 9:30 AM, Jun 30th 2021
7:32 PM, Wednesday June 30th 2021

Thank you Tofu, I think your critique is on point. Still, I have a thing to note here:

But I think I may not have full control of the fact that the lines are converging in pairs. Due to the construction technique taught in the lesson, we always draw the outer edges first. With practice, I think most of the outer lines turned out to be decent from me. But the kicker is that the inner corner defines three lines, which are competing with each other. Sometimes, I made two lines look good and sacrificed the other, while sometimes I made everything a bit worse by averaging the 3 intersections. But taking the other outer edge that crosses near the inner edge is a good hint, thanks!

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