250 Box Challenge

8:07 AM, Thursday April 23rd 2020

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This is the feedback I got from the discord Channel already:

(During the task I did something quite wrong but since Elodin told me I could change it during the task.

I didn't follow the rule that the lines always go away from the center for some of the cubes.

Elodin [232]07/01/2020

@Lea nope, once you do a line, don't draw over it, never repeat lines

If you extend a line a bit too long, of course it's worse than not extending it. But if you have a wobbly line that doesn't extend, it's worse than a confident line that extends a bit

ideally, you should correct them after you finish a page, and before drawing next boxes

so if you do a page a day, the best thing would be to start correcting yesterday's lines and then draw today's boxes. that being said you got some problems extending lines. Remember to always extend the lines away from the viewer, if you don't know or aren't sure about it, if you extend the lines away from the center of your initial Y, you'll always be right

I posted some of the photos of my mistakes in the same folder as all the cubes of the challenge

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2:47 PM, Sunday April 26th 2020

That's some good advice, elodin is a good egg =^)

Congrats on finishing the box challenge, this is no small feat! Let's get to your critique....unfortunately you only uploaded one page of your challenge! That's ok, just make sure to upload the rest of your boxes and then let me know and I'll go over your work then.

Next Steps:

Upload remainder of your boxes

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
4:58 PM, Monday April 27th 2020

Oh I am sorry, it seems like I just copied the link for one of the pictures. Does it work with this link:

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10:42 PM, Monday April 27th 2020

Yes that works, so let's get started!

Your box work has improved quite a bit throughout this challenge. Your sense of space and perspective, as well as overall line quality. You did a great job varying the size and orientation of your forms as well as the rates of convergences. You correctly applied your check lines to each page, and the benefits from this paid off in spades. You made some serious jump in quality relatively quickly in the process.

You are still having some issues with back lines getting skewed, but that is ok because uncomfortable has made this infographic regarding parallel lines in perspective. The first thing to understand is that parallel lines are all tied together and related to one another by the vanishing point. As its location changes, or a line shifts (which is an implicit change of the VP) then everything in the ensemble changes as well. This change is manifested in the angles between the lines. You can make this information actionable by learning to "step back" and view all of the parallel lines simultaneously. Often times students focus on one plane at a time making sure all the lines are right, then move on to the next plane with no regard to the lines previously put down. This is why we end up with multiple points of convergence instead of the correct one. When you can start to take into account all of the lines simultaneously things start to just slide into place. Now obviously this is way easier said than done, but if you begin to practice with this in mind it becomes more intuitive.

Now there isn't a whole lot to say here. You did your boxes, applied your check lines, and took your time. I do want to point out that at times you hatching got rushed and both ends of hatch lines don't make contact with the planes at times. This causes an undermining in the overall solidity of the form, so keep that in mind.

So congratulations, your box challenge is complete! This doesn't mean you're finished with boxes though. Keep practicing them in warm ups so you don't get rusty with them, and try to draw some larger ones too - on the scale of 1-2 per sheet of printer paper. Overall though, good work!

Next Steps:

You are now ready to go on to lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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