250 Box Challenge

3:59 PM, Monday December 11th 2023

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All the pics are scanned through my phone, i can retake if needed.

A few notes if you need to know:

  • 1 - 30 Boxes: No line weight.

  • 31 - 120: Start adding weight for the outline but i misread and do the internal lines as well. From 121 onward, only outline.

  • 60 - 250: doesn't rely on the tool for the initial Y

  • 133 - 138: must be trippin' or a glitch in a matrix cuz there are 2 papers when i scan the them.

That's all. Thank you to whoever checking and giving feedback to my submission. Wish you a nice day and much appreciated :3!

2 users agree
7:53 PM, Monday February 26th 2024
edited at 5:25 AM, Mar 4th 2024

Hello Meapr0, I’ll be reviewing your 250 Box Challenge today.

First off, congratulations on completing the first hurdle of Drawabox. It’s definitely a long marathon, but the quality of work between the start and end pages really demonstrates overall improvement. Now let’s begin with the critique.

Things you did well:

  • Lines confidence was definitely a major strength here. Construction lines are relatively straight, and you maintain confidence in your lines.

  • Clear experimentation with box size and orientation. This is a positive habit to carry forward and helps progress spatial reasoning ability.

  • Line weight was applied appropriately and added subtle depth to the box form. Although optional, it's great to hone this tool for usage in future lessons.

Things you can work on:

  • Boxes come into issues with 1-2 sets of lines being parallel, resulting in divergence towards the vanishing point. Here's an example displaying how the lines diverge the more we lengthen those parallel lines. Whether it's gradual or quick, all lines should converge. It may be difficult to judge gradual convergence on shallow boxes, but we want to be aware of angles when estimating to ensure lines aren't parallel.

  • Hatching is generally well done; however, the lines are bunched together pretty tightly. This isn't a huge problem, but it might be resulting in uneven spacing and/or wobble on the box planes. Spreading those lines out a bit could help achieve smooth lines and give yourself enough space to work with to establish uniform hatching.

  • A majority of these boxes fall under the shallow foreshortening category. In future warm-ups, try experimenting more with rapid convergence and see how they change with different-shaped boxes.

Overall, you've done a good job of steadily improving your box quality. I'll mark this down as complete and send you off to Lesson 2. Good luck!

Next Steps:

Lesson 2.

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
edited at 5:25 AM, Mar 4th 2024
1:06 PM, Tuesday February 27th 2024

Thank you ToT)! I will definitely take notes of these for my future warm-up boxes.

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