250 Box Challenge
7:14 PM, Tuesday June 8th 2021
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11:22 PM, Thursday June 10th 2021
Hi, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.
Congratulations on completing the box challenge, not only does it teach us how to think in terms of 3D space but also shows our desire to learn. Getting through it is definitely an accomplishment to be proud of.
While your boxes were by no means bad to begin with, you did achieve some noticeable improvement.
Your line work is looking confident which is great and has improved in terms of tidiness/accuracy over the course of the challenge. Your line weight application and hatching lines are hitting their intended marks much more consistently.
I'm glad to see you experimented with orientations, proportions and rates of foreshortening. This experimentation is key to developing a well rounded understanding of the concepts being taught rather than you just becoming comfortable/able to draw only one style of box. There was a period in the middle of the challenge you started to draw a bit small but I'm glad that by the end you were drawing larger again. Drawing large is great for helping us become more comfortable drawing from our shoulder as well as allowing us to see our mistakes more clearly.
By the end of the challenge your convergences have greatly improved, there is still the occasional mishap but the majority of the time you're keeping your lines converging as an entire set rather than in pairs. I'll quickly direct you to this example, it shows how each line in a set relates to one another and their respective vanishing point. Having a visual explanation tends to help people if they feel like they only understand what's occurring intuitively so while your boxes are looking solid, the example may help your understanding become more concrete. Just remember that ultimately our lines should never diverge from our vanishing point, we want our lines to converge as a set, and due to perspective they shouldn't be completely parallel.
Other than that there's not much to say, this was a really solid submission and I don't have many criticisms to point out or feel like you're misunderstanding. Be sure to keep experimenting with proportions, try wide/thin, long/wide boxes just to see how your lines will react in different circumstances.
I see no reason not to move you forward so I'll be marking your submission complete.
Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck in lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2.
11:53 PM, Thursday June 10th 2021
Thank you! So very helpful! Have a great day!
Danny
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