Nice job finishing the challenge! You have nice improvement and consistency as you go thru your boxes, as far as I can see you don't have any out-standing issues, just keep drawing boxes as a warm up!
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2 :)
hi, amazing work! im not a critic, but i do have a couple of questions:
your lines are super clean and straight, i was wonder whether you used a ruler or not? (im speaking of the black lines and not the color coded perspective lines)
were you doing the 250 box challenge alongside a lesson? (like lesson 2)
This might be a big one; what difficulties did you face?
Thanks! I'm glad you think the lines are straight, I was really struggling with that! hah
To answer your questions:
No, not at all, rulers aren't allowed for the challenge for the creation of boxes! Everything is freehand, mostly ghosting, though I admit I would forget myself sometimes and that's when lines are really wobbly.
Nope! This is my third try to do Drawabox course in a last few years and the second time I reached the 250 box challenge. At the time I tried doing the lessons and it didn't work well for me at all! I recommend definitely finishing this challenge first! Your understanding of how elements work in 3D space will increase greatly and lesson 2 builds up on that a lot! So yeah, 250 box challenge on it's own. Then lesson 2 :)
Oof, yeah that definitely is a big one, cause quite a few things will fall under this. I had some doubts if I'm doing it correctly quite a few times along the way, most notably around boxes 100-150, I still struggle with finding that perfect spot for the third (hidden) point of the box, finding motivation to continue was a bit of a challenge at one point as well, but I kept at it and I'm really glad! I definitely feel that I improved and from 200 onward drawing the boxes wasn't even a chore anymore, cause I started to really enjoy it! One more thing was that I was getting impatient as well to finish the challenge and that's when I would get sloppy.
I wanted to do 4 pages of 6 boxes in a day for the whole challenge; managed that maybe for 3 days and then it became exhausting. My advice is not to rush it and just make sure you do 1-2 pages a day and you'll feel better about it and see improvements more imo.
That got long sorry hah! Thanks again :)
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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