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11:11 PM, Wednesday June 10th 2020
Hey there, I'll be handling your 250 box challenge critique.
First of all congratulations on completing the challenge, it tests a person's willpower and discipline as much as it helps people's understanding of 3D space, so getting through it all is quite the accomplishment.
It looks like you were taking notes through the challenge and thinking things through, it shows in your work you've achieved quite a bit of growth by the end.
While your boxes weren't awful to begin with they are much more consistent and solid looking overall by the end. Your convergences come together much more smoothly and consistently as a set with fewer cases of them converging in pairs or diverging.
Your line quality has also shown improvement, you're drawing them more confidently and keeping them tidier. This improvement shows a lot in your hatching as well where you may be drawing fewer hatching lines compared to the beginning but the few lines you draw are much more confident and parallel to each other.
I feel around box 170 is where things started to click and everything began working together for you which is great.
In the future you may want to experiment with using line weight on your drawings, when it's applied correctly it can help make an image stand out.
Overall I don't have many negative criticisms to go over, you did a great job. While there are a few mistakes here and there we aren't aiming for perfection, we'll always make mistakes but work like this makes us more consistent and those mistakes occur less often.
While you probably have built some understanding of this intuitively through the challenge I'll point you towards this example. It shows how a set of lines relate to their vanishing point, the inner pair will always be nearly identical with the outer pair may vary more depending on how close the vanishing point is. While many grow to understand this through the challenge, having it labeled and pointed out can help some ingrain the idea more strongly in their mind.
With all that being said I believe you've shown a fair amount of growth and I have no problem moving you on to lesson 2.
Great work so far, keep doing previous exercises and boxes in your warm ups and good luck in the later lessons.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2.
11:45 PM, Wednesday June 10th 2020
Thank you so much! This is really encouraging.
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