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5:04 PM, Monday October 25th 2021
Hi there. I'll be handling your box challenge critique.
Not only does the challenge 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:
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Your lines are looking smooth and confidently drawn.
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When hatching you're keeping your lines evenly spaced for the most part which shows that you're taking time to plan your lines rather than just rush them on to the page.
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It's nice to see that you're applying line weight. Most people need a bit of mileage with it before they feel that they can apply it comfortably so getting an early start with it like this is a good way to see better results sooner.
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You're experimenting with orientations and proportions which is great. Experimenting is an important habit to build and helps us form a more well rounded understandin of the concepts we're trying to learn. I hope you continue to nurture this habit in the future as well.
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Overall your convergences are looking more consistent than when you started and you stopped extending your lines in the wrong direction which was distorting your boxes a fair bit, good work.
Things you can work on:
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You tend to keep your rate of foreshortening similar throughout the entire challenge, remember that experimenting is important so try moving your vanishing points nearer or further away from your box to see how your lines react and behave differently.
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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'd like you to draw 10 more boxes please. Try to focus on shifting the position of your vanishing points to change your rates of foreshortening. I think you're on the right track but this is something that we need to make sure you can do before moving forward.
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:
10 more boxes please.
5:56 PM, Monday October 25th 2021
Hello! I was active when I received this critique, so I thought I'd go ahead and finish off the revisions if I could. Here they are -> https://imgur.com/a/LDrEOzj
Before you view them I want to apologize for how terrible they are xD I am well aware of the angle theory of boxes, but it feels like the longer I spend constructing boxes, the more inaccurate I become. The most inaccurate boxes out of that lot were when I spent more than 5 minutes constructing them. I got a bit more accurate when I trusted my instincts.
Also, I found that even when my points were correct, many times it would be off because of the execution of the line. I'd have gone over and corrected those, but we've been taught to roll with the mistakes.
I did attempt my best to keep the angles consistent and vary the vanishing points and well as box types. I apologize for the horrendous quality once again, and if you require me to do even more boxes, please let me know!
Thanks.
2:26 AM, Wednesday October 27th 2021
Your convergences are on the right track but as you mention you are going way too quickly.
You had these done and replied to the critique in under an hour, it takes most people an hour to properly draw 5 boxes. Not only that but you should generally give yourself some time to reflect on critiques as well.
Rushing like this causes you to make sacrifices elsewhere like your line quality, which could definitely be better.
I'll be asking you to draw 10 more boxes please, while you're on the right track you're meant to be submitting your best work and I know you're capable of more than this.
Next Steps:
10 more boxes please.
4:32 PM, Thursday October 28th 2021
Hello! I've taken your advice into account and done ten more boxes, and I took your advice and spread them out over two days. While I'm still struggling with accuracy, I do hope I was able to show more variety in my boxes, as I realized while doing the box challenge the first time that I was defaulting to the same sets of Ys over and over again. So I went back over them to look at the boxes I did while still using the Y generator and took some inspiration from there about new Ys I could create.
I hope this is satisfactory -> https://imgur.com/a/LH03joU!
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