250 Box Challenge
11:06 AM, Friday June 18th 2021
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11:39 PM, Sunday June 20th 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 and it requires a lot of patience. Be proud of what you've accomplished so far and the dedication to learning that you've shown.
While your boxes weren't bad to begin with you've definitely improved over the course of the challenge.
Your line work is looking more confident, while it may not be as noticeable in your boxes which started off fairly confident to begin with it is quite noticeable in your hatching lines.
In terms of convergences you're looking more consistent and there's much fewer cases of your boxes appearing distorted by the end of the challenge.
Overall your submission is quite solid and while your results may not be perfect you're clearly improving and will continue to do so. With that being said there is something I notice that can help you achieve better results faster in the future potentially.
The thing I notice you need to work on the most is experimentation, you keep your boxes fairly similar in terms of proportions and foreshortening through your submission. I encourage you to mix it up more in the future, draw some boxes longer or wider, move your vanishing points further or closer. Experimentation is key to deepening our understanding of concepts otherwise we risk ending up only able to draw one particular way instead of being well rounded.
I'd like to point you to this example quickly as well, it shows the relation between each line in a set and their respective vanishing point. While you may have grown to understand some of this intuitively people tend to find a visual example helps solidify the concept. You'll notice that the inner pair of lines will remain fairly similar unless your box is quite long, and the outer pair will vary a lot depending on the location of the vanishing point, the closer this point is the faster the rate of convergence. The important things to remember are that our lines should never diverge from the vanishing point, should always converge as a set and due to perspective shouldn't be completely parallel even if the vanishing point is moved further away.
I do think you've shown commendable growth through the challenge, and with more experimentation and mileage you'll continue to improve so I'll be marking your submission as complete.
Keep practicing boxes and previous exercises as warm ups and good luck in lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2.
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