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250 Box Challenge

11:36 AM, Saturday June 3rd 2023

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Hi there!

I made a mistake labelling the pages, as you can see the page 43 exists two times. However I made corrections on the imgur upload, as the pages are now labelled from 1 to 66.

The symbol I drew for the boxes 196 to 201 are the result of me trying to draw a box with as few single lines as possible. I felt that I drew one line at a time, without planning ahead on what I want the box to look like, and tried counteracting this with mapping the box out in my head, then ghosting it and drawing as much of it as I could without lifting the pen or doubling a line.

Most of the blue lines I did not extend to the vanishing point as either it would be off the page, or it was obvious they were not converging properly.

If I had drawn a box that conisted of a set of lines with a vanishing point approaching infinity, I extended the blue lines to both ends, as I simply wanted to see if the set of lines was parallel to each other, attempting to save space on the page.

All of these were done with Sakura Pigma Micron 08 in black and blue in

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6:13 PM, Monday June 5th 2023

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

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:

  • Your construction lines are looking smooth and confidently drawn.

  • It's good to see that you're taking the time to plan and evenly space your hatching lines. This helps keep your boxes tidy and makes them look more solid.

  • You're doing a great job of experimenting with orientations, proportions and rates of foreshortening. 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:

  • While it's great that you're trying to apply line weight, it's currently very messy and not following the principles of markmaking from lesson 1. Line weight should only be a single additional line and it should be planned with the ghosting method, and then drawn in a single smooth confident motion.

  • At times you're placing your vanishing point between the viewer and your boxes (boxes 154, 192, 205, 206, 224, 225, and 233 are examples of this). This leads to you extending your lines in the wrong direction and your boxes becoming distorted because your lines are actually diverging from where the vanishing point would actually be. Here's a guide I wrote that will hopefully help you place your vanishing points and line extensions more consistently. If you need some more examples you can find them here and a simplified guide below.

  • 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.

I won't be moving you on to the next lesson just yet, each lesson builds off concepts in the previous course material so if you move forward with un-addressed issues you end up just creating further issues on top of them.

I'll be asking you to draw 25 more boxes please. Focus on extending your lines consistently in the correct direction as well as tidying up your lines.

Once you've completed your boxes reply to this critique with a link to them, I'll address anything that needs to be worked on and once you've shown you're ready I'll move you on to the next lesson.

I know you can do this and look forward to seeing your work.

Next Steps:

25 more boxes please.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
1:42 PM, Wednesday June 7th 2023

Hi again!

Thank you for the critique.

I found it very helpful to envision the vanishing point as a circle to hit, as in the provided example, rather than a point that needs utter accuracy. I tried focusing on running the lines as a parallel set, not as two separate ones, but found that very hard and most of the time the "circle" I aimed for was more of an ellipse, such as box 261 and 271.

Imgur Link: https://imgur.com/a/rdx1raV

Thank you!

5:28 PM, Wednesday June 7th 2023

Your line quality could still be tidier at times but this is a step in the right direction.

Overall these are looking solid, you've extended all your lines correctly. Good work.

Ultimately the goal should be trying to hit as accurate as a point as you possibly can but if expanding that point to an ellipse to keep it in mind helps then that's a good way to progress. Hopefully as you build up experience you can begin to tighten that ellipse to be smaller.

I have no issue moving you on to the next lesson now so I'll be marking your submission complete.

Keep practicing boxes and previous exercises as warmups and best of luck in lesson 2.

Next Steps:

Move on to lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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