250 Box Challenge

9:49 AM, Thursday December 24th 2020

250 Boxes - Google Drive

250 Boxes - Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oGKgkpcdx18tWMhPEDNHzlbocQrkfOxU?usp=sharing

Full disclosure: I joined Patreon after completing L1, 250 Boxes, and L2.

This submission contains my original 250 Boxes homework that I finished in August 2020 and submitted to the community website (I received some feedback there) -- plus an additional 50 boxes, labelled "250 Boxes REDUX" drawn more recently in December 2020. The "250 Boxes REDUX" pages are at the bottom of the Gdrive list. All the pages are dated.

Thank you for reviewing my submission, and Happy Christmas to Uncomfortable and all the TAs!

7:55 PM, Thursday December 24th 2020

Congratulations for completing the 250 Box Challenge!

You did a good job on the challenge overall.

I can see you made some good improvement with the quality of your mark making. Your lines steadily become straighter and more confident looking as you progressed through the challenge. You have made good progress with adding extra line weight to your boxes, I can see that your extra line weight is doing a better job of blending more seamlessly with your original marks as you progress. You drew your boxes at a pretty good size and with a variety of orientations and foreshortening. You also start to do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points!

While your lines are much more clean and confident looking, I do see that you still hesitate in some areas. Likely from prioritizing your accuracy over creating a smooth, confident looking line. Just remember that the confidence of the stroke is far and away your top priority. Once your pen touches the page, any opportunity to avoid mistakes has passed, so all you can really do is push through. Hesitation serves no purpose. Mistakes happen, but a smooth, confident mark is still useful even if it's a little off. Accuracy is something that you will improve on as you continue working through Drawabox and practice ghosting.

Now, while it is important that you use the ghosting method of each mark you make while doing Drawabox one thing you can try to help with ending your marks closer to where you want them is lifting the pen off of the page rather than stopping the motion of your arm. I would also recommend that you read this comment by Uncomfortable, where he talks more about hesitation.

Finally while your converges do improve overall I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. So, when you are looking at your sets of lines you want to be focusing only on the lines that share a vanishing point. This does not include lines that share a corner or a plane, only lines that converge towards the same vanishing point. Now when you think of those lines, including those that have not been drawn, you can think about the angles from which they leave the vanishing point. Usually the middle lines have a small angle between them, and this angle will become negligible by the time they reach the box. This can serve as a useful hint.

Congrats again and good luck with lesson 2!

Next Steps:

Continue to lesson 2!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
4:02 AM, Friday December 25th 2020

Thank you Scylla for the feedback.

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