250 Box Challenge

11:38 PM, Monday June 20th 2022

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I'm expecting some criticism on a couple things, but I decided not to write them down so as not to sway your judgment.

Also, I can't imagine what it's like for you to go through thousands of boxes every week. Thank you for all of your efforts.

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1:01 AM, Thursday June 23rd 2022

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

Also no problem, thank you for the support.

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 did well:

  • You're doing a good job of drawing the lines constructing your boxes smoothly and confidently.

  • It's nice to see that you're taking the time to plan each of your hatching lines and space them evenly. This helps keep your boxes looking tidy rather than looking like they were rushed on to the page.

  • You're doing a great job of experimenting with orientations, proportions and rates of foreshortening (though around halfway through you do experiment a bit less, I encourage you to keep mixing things up). Experimenting is an important habit to build when learning any new skill, it helps form a more well rounded understanding. I hope you'll continue to display and nurture this habit in the future.

Things you can work on:

  • Line weight isn't a requirement of the challenge but I do recommend practicing it in your future attempts. It's an incredibly useful tool but one that people often require a fair bit of mileage before they feel comfortable applying it. The sooner you start to build up that mileage the sooner you'll see better results.

  • 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 a few mistakes your boxes are improving so far and with more mileage you'll continue to become more consistent. That being said I'll be marking your submission as complete and move you on to lesson 2.

Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups, and good luck.

Next Steps:

Move on to lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
10:02 AM, Thursday June 23rd 2022

Thank you TOFU for your kind feedback.

Regarding the line weight: I considered stopping midway since I felt like I wasn't doing it correctly. Therefore, I took a gap to wait for your input (with the hopes of receiving some expert advice) rather than reinforcing any potential errors.

I'm going to look at a lesson that goes into great length about this and then redo the remaining boxes (I refrained from doing that throughout this challenge in order to preserve my existing proficiency).

In any case, thank you once more and have a nice week off!

Regards,

Hnvy

4:04 PM, Thursday June 23rd 2022

Don't worry about going back to them, just try to apply it on your warm up boxes moving forward.

Taking a look back it did seem like you were trying to apply it at times but not always in the way we recommend. We recommend applying a second line over top of the first, and to add weight to the entire outer silhoutte rather than just the front facing form or the top.

Best of luck.

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