250 Box Challenge
1:45 PM, Saturday October 31st 2020
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8:36 PM, Sunday November 1st 2020
Congratulations for completing the 250 Box Challenge!
You've done a good job on the challenge overall. From what I can see your line work is well done and your boxes are coming along well. When I compare your early pages of boxes to your final sets I can see that you have made a lot of good progress with your mark making. Your lines steadily grow straighter and more confident looking as you moved through the challenge.
Your line weight is done well too. I can see that you have been taking your time and you do a better job of getting your extra line weight to blend more seamlessly with your original marks. You also do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points!
While your converges do improve overall I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. So, when you are looking at your sets of lines you want to be focusing only on the lines that share a vanishing point. This does not include lines that share a corner or a plane, only lines that converge towards the same vanishing point. Now when you think of those lines, including those that have not been drawn, you can think about the angles from which they leave the vanishing point. Usually the middle lines have a small angle between them, and this angle will become negligible by the time they reach the box. This can serve as a useful hint.
Congrats again and good luck with lesson 2!
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Continue to lesson 2!
9:40 PM, Sunday November 1st 2020
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