I started on july 2021. I kept drawing boxes, then had a period of huge burnout, then a few months later started drawing boxes again, then another 8 months of total burnout. I have been struggling with burnout and consistency as someone with ADHD but I finally managed to improve myself and finish all the boxes! Though I would get it if I had to do a few more.
Hi, congrats on completing the 250 box challenge! This is safe to say a quite daunting task for everyone who follows the course, so take a deep breath and enjoy the certainty that it is finally over and you did it! I will say a few things here, mostly about what I think you did right and where there's room for improvement.
Starting with the convergence of the boxes, each set of sides consistently converges away from the viewer, and quite often with a decent level of precision. The only exceptions that I noticed are a couple of boxes towards the end, specifically boxes 204, 208 and 210, that are actually trapezoidal and not rectangular viewed in perspective. The fact that otherwise all of your boxes correctly converge away from the viewer suggests to me that this is due to letting your guard down towards the end of the challenge rather than lack of understanding of the rules of 3 point perspective. In any case, always remember that in 3 point perspective the sides of the visible faces always converge away from the viewer, i.e. "behind" the box and not in front.
Sometimes the hidden edge of the box is more slanted than the other sides going in the corresponding direction, resulting in a more sparse area in which the intersections of the extensions are found, or in convergence with one side but not the other two. This is a very common and easy mistake caused by the fact that, since we are working essentially through eyeballing, the back corner will be the place where all of the small mistakes we make pile up if we start drawing from the front. There are ways to improve this: some people find it easier to start drawing from the back corner and build up the rest from there. A less elegant method, but that I find personally more useful, is to ghost in one of the directions that form the back corner intersection, place a small reference mark where you think the intersection could be to fix the established direction and then ghost in the other direction to place the mark where the lines actually intersect.
About your line work, I can say it looks smooth and confident, indicating that by now you have a solid grasp of the ghosting method. This applies both to normal lines and hatching lines. Line weight is correctly applied only to the silhouette of the shape. Sometimes it looks like you ceded to the temptation of trying to correct your line through application of line weight, resulting in lines that end up looking a bit cluttered and uneven, but most of the time it looks like you actually applied it correctly, with only a second superimposed line.
All in all, I think you did a good job with the challenge. Keeping in mind what I said, I think you can move on to lesson 2. Good luck and stay motivated!
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Thank you so much, I thought I would need to repeat it again, I am so glad I did well and that you took the time to review my submission. Again tysm!!!
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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