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11:58 PM, Sunday June 13th 2021
Hi there I'll be handling your box challenge critique.
Congratulations on completing the box challenge, it's by no means an easy task. Not only does it test/improve your abilities but it also requires a lot of willpower to get through. Be proud of your accomplishment and desire to improve that you've shown.
While your line work wasn't bad to begin with it is looking more consistent by the end of the challenge. There are fewer instances where you have wobbling lines occurring which results in your lines looking more confident overall. It's good to see you're applying line weight, it requires a lot of mileage to become comfortable using and you're on your way with some good results already. You're also taking time to draw your hatching lines rather than just rushing them out, good work.
Great work experimenting with orientations and proportions, experimentation is important as it helps us deepen our understanding of concepts so that don't end up in a scenario where we can only draw one thing/box. In the future you may want to limit yourself to 5-6 boxes per page and draw them larger, drawing large helps us become more comfortable using our shoulder as well as allowing us to see our mistakes more clearly.
When it comes to convergences it appears like you're often trying to keep your lines as parallel as you can, this is a bit of a mistake although you have improved and become more consistent. Take a look at this example, it shows the relation between each line and their respective vanishing point. The inner pair will be quite similar unless the box is quite long, while the outer pair can vary quite a bit depending on the location of the vanishing point. The closer the vanishing point the more extreme the rate of convergence will be, while the further it is the closer to parallel the lines will become. The key thing to remember is that while they will become closer to parallel, perspective should always be a factor so they won't be completely parallel. Our lines should never diverge from the vanishing point, and always converge as an entire set and not in pairs.
Overall your submission is looking solid, while you have some things you can improve I have no doubt you will with more mileage. I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to the next lesson.
Keep practicing previous exercise as warm ups and good luck in lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2.
The Art of Blizzard Entertainment
While I have a massive library of non-instructional art books I've collected over the years, there's only a handful that are actually important to me. This is one of them - so much so that I jammed my copy into my overstuffed backpack when flying back from my parents' house just so I could have it at my apartment. My back's been sore for a week.
The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.