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1:53 PM, Tuesday February 14th 2023

Hello and congrats on finishing the 250 box challenge! I know how difficult the challenge can be so it's great that you had the perseverance to finish.

Onto the critique:

Hatching: It's not a requirement to hatch one face of your boxes, but it is recommended. Try to hatch more in the future.

Convergences: A lot of your boxes have very steep convergences as opposed to shallow ones. It's good that your practicing different box orientations but only around 1/3 of your convergences should be that steep. Ideally most vanishing points should lie far away from the page. For what it's worth, a lot of your boxes, especially near the end , have near perfect convergences.

Lineweight: Lineweight should only be applied to the outline of the box, not to the initial Y shape.

That's all for now, I recommend practicing some more before moving on, keeping what I said in mind.

Next Steps:

Do 4 more pages of boxes all with far off vanishing points/shallow convergences. Try to incorporate hatching if you can.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
1:22 PM, Friday February 17th 2023
edited at 1:56 PM, Feb 17th 2023

Thank you for looking over it and the helpful remarks. Will do that.

edited at 1:56 PM, Feb 17th 2023
1:50 PM, Sunday February 19th 2023

I've made the boxes. What do you think? https://imgur.com/a/jQAn2pi

2:38 PM, Tuesday February 21st 2023

Hello, sorry for the delay in reply. I've looked over your boxes and I think you might be confused by what I mean when I say "shallow convergences" vs dramatic. Here are two diagrams representing what I mean: 1 and 2. A lot of your boxes are still very dramatic. Not to repeat myself, but try to envision the vanishing point off the page, and away from the edges of the page.

3:06 PM, Friday February 24th 2023
edited at 3:08 PM, Feb 24th 2023

Next batch of boxes :). Focused more on the shallow convergence and less on the line weight and hashing.

https://imgur.com/a/STq9Y6S

Does their edges have to be parallel?

edited at 3:08 PM, Feb 24th 2023
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6:19 PM, Tuesday February 21st 2023

I understand now, will give it a go again. Thank you for taking a look again and for the feedback. Shallow convergence = out of page vanishing points(need to not be afraid that they will converge even if i can't see them) :).

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