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9:58 PM, Wednesday September 29th 2021
As a whole, I think the growth and improvement you've shown here across this challenge is quite significant. Comparing where you started, with boxes like these whose edges diverged, or whose line extensions were drawn going in the wrong direction, to your last page, the difference is substantial, and to be honest, much better than I expected given how much you were struggling on the discord. What I see here, comparing the start and end of the challenge is the difference between flailing and not knowing what exactly you were meant to be doing, to actively understanding what you're aiming to achieve, and gradually making your way there.
As far as the box constructions themselves go, I feel you're headed entirely on the right track. Sure, you have divergences, or convergences that are inconsistent - like on this page for instance where 238's blue lines converge sharply in pairs, rather than all together. But that's entirely normal for this challenge, and mistakes that obvious aren't really that common towards the end of your set, and they can be improved upon by always thinking about how all four lines in a given set are meant to meet at their vanishing points, as explained in this diagram. Either way, in that regard, your boxes are coming along very well.
There is one thing I am a little perplexed about however - if I look closely at any of your later boxes - like 250 for instance, I can immediately see a weird little issue. Your line extensions don't appear to actually overlap the box's edges. Instead, a lot of them seem to be weirdly offset from those lines. Given that you can use a ruler for doing the line extensions, you should be able to overlap those lines fairly easily (just by lining up your ruler correctly).
The problem itself isn't such a huge deal - it'll be a bigger concern as your convergences start to get really consistent, but you're a ways off from that yet, so these discrepancies aren't causing issues just yet. It's just... really odd. Do you have any thoughts on why this might be happening?
I had initially thought that this was an issue where you were going back over your lines multiple times, or correcting mistakes. This is an issue I see in some other places (like here on 249) (where you've got some odd stray marks), so it is still something I want you to keep an eye on, but I kind of suspect you may be ending up with a lot of additional marks simply because of how you're employing the ghosting method. If that's the case, then it's fine - just be sure not to go back over marks to try to correct them.
So, as a whole, I'm very pleased with your work - but very perplexed by that issue with your line extensions. I am going to mark this challenge as complete, but I would like to hear just why those line extensions are off.
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Feel free to move onto lesson 2.
2:30 AM, Thursday September 30th 2021
Yeah, sometimes I would make addtional marks, because my hand would touch the paper when I did the ghosting method, but I would still try my best to implment it, and draw confidently. Honestly towards the end of the challenge, I don't know why but I had real issues with motorskills, it would feel like I would try to allign my ruler's edge to the lines in my boxes, and it just wouldn't come out right I just felt really Uncomfortable near the end, and what I thought I did wrong started effecting how I did the challenge. I don't know why myself, but sometimes I have trouble alligning rulers with line extension. Also, sharp convergence in pairs is correct, I just tried my best to guess and think about the right things. One thing that was daunting about this challenge is I think their could have been more directon of what to look out for, and when your convergences is on the right track. A lot of boxes I don't know excatly if it was good, or if it was bad, but the sharp diverging lines I could often tell. I think eroor checking method could be expanded on, and as I do theese in the future I would like to know what means a sucesful box. I think I also had areas in this challenge where I tried my best to think about them converging together, but I just got mental blocked, and made the same mistakes like 2 lines converging together a lot, and I wonder if this is lack of pratice, or just that my brain isn't the best at percieving space. I wonder if hard work can ammend this. Overall, I really struggled with this challenge, and it's great to know I improved, and I came out of it okay. I'm still quite suprised that my work as seen as okay, but I apperciate the critque and your time. I guess I just need to keep working on improving my convergence as I do theese for my warm ups. I'm glad I showed growth though, and will keep aiming to improve myself. Thank you so much! The recommendation below is an advertisement. Most of the links here are part of Amazon's affiliate program (unless otherwise stated), which helps support this website. It's also more than that - it's a hand-picked recommendation of something I've used myself. If you're interested, here is a full list.
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