I actually did those when I started drawabox for the first time a few years ago.
I am currently redoing all lessons and am currently working on lesson 2, however I am not planning on redoing the 250 Box Challenge a second time :D
By the time I did those, i uploaded them to the discord solely, but I figured if I want to get the discord role and badge for completion, I would have to upload them on the drawabox website as well.
Hi Topless! Congratulations on finishing the 250 Box Challenge. I'm Wendy and I will be reviewing your submission.
Things you did well:
Your lines are pretty confident and smooth. There is the occasional wobble, but nothing major.
There is a definite improvement with the perspective of the later boxes compared to the earlier ones.
On all 3-point perpective boxes, you extended the lines in the right direction consistently.
You drew your boxes nice and big on the page.
Things you can work on:
With these 2-point perspective boxes, you also run into a problem with the extension lines. In 2-point perspective, by definition you only have 2 vanishing points. That means that you cannot extend the third set of lines, as they are completely parallel and never meet at a vanishing point in either direction.
On some of your boxes, you try to keep the lines a bit too parallel. At times, this also results in the lines diverging.
You have a fair amount of variation in box proportions. However, I think you can vary it more still; try making some boxes that are really flat, like a pizza box. Or really long and thin, like a box of tinfoil.
I think you can experiment with box angles more. Your boxes all have very similar angles, because you placed the vanishing points at roughly equal distances from the box. You didn't include any boxes where one or two of the faces are barely turned.
In order to draw a barely turned box, one vanishing point will be really close and one will be really far away. If that doesn't make sense to you, this awesome visualization may help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkp1xfWJ9n4
On some boxes, the vanishing points are so close, it results in extreme foreshortening that no longer looks realistic. It's good that you are experimenting with levels of foreshortening. However, going forward it's important for you to find the sweet spot where the box looks like it has dramatic foreshortening, without being pushed so far that it looks misshapen.
Your hatching is a bit too loose. Make sure that all your hatch lines properly meet up with the boundaries of the plane, and fill it out entirely. Draw steady lines, like you would for the sides of the box, and ghost them if necessary. Don't flick your hatch lines.
You could try and add line weight to the silhouette of the box.
Conclusion:
While you did make a few mistakes, your boxes are improving nicely. I will mark this lesson as complete. Just be sure to continue doing boxes as part of your warm-ups, and keep the above feedback in mind.
Next Steps:
The next step will be Lesson 2. Good luck and keep up the good work!
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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