Did 10 boxes a day & completed all of them in 25 days with first 220 boxes with Fabel Castell (M) & then later 30 boxes with Sakura Micron (08).
Last page wasn't my best attempt as I made several mistakes there. Hoping I did the exercise as intended, please critique it.
Hello Purpel, I hope you are well,
Last page isn't what represents your work, it is all those 250 boxes that you did in the span of 25 days and how you improved from them.
What stands out the most to me is that your lineweight is quite messy and I know you could do better as your linework is quite good as you can make straight lines if you commit to them. So for lineweight remember to also ghost for that process. What we want to do is add another line on top of our initial one and what we should get is an effect of our line becoming more drak(as we fill more ink on it) and make it slightly wider(as ink spills slightly to the sides). Making our line wider isn't our goal, it is to make it stronger/darker. This diagram conveys what I am trying to say.
Sometimes your lines converge in pairs, https://imgur.com/KSHwTwo this is what you do sometimes, we don't want that because we want all our 4 lines to meet in the same point, a vanishing point, as shown here https://imgur.com/8PqQLE0. That says to me that you perhaps lost your initial vanishing point. This diagram should also help you understand the angles of lines converging to the vanishing point. The inner lines have a smaller degree unless our box is long and it also depends on the position of our vanishing point. I want you to remember that our lines should always converge in one point, vanishing point, but they never meet in pairs.
Also when you add hatching remember to keep it even and ghost it as it is line too. Don't make it messy, as when we add hatching to the face, it will become our point of interest for that box, so we want to make that point pretty to please the eye.
In summary, you did a good job. Your linework needs to see more work in the lineweight and repeating lines departments, those are by far your biggest weaknesses.
Your boxes came out great, there are places where your convergence could be better, but I believe you are on the right track to get even better than you are now.
So I will mark this challenge as complete.
If you have any questions feel free to ask me,
Have fun on your journey,
Next Steps:
Move to lesson 2
Thank you for the instructions for line weight & convergence, I'll follow them when doing boxes on warm ups.
I've a question, are we allowed to mark vanishing points in or outside paper using ghosting method(not with ruler) after doing the initial face, when two of them have been decided?
What do you mean by marking? Ghosting and placing a point?
We should always ghost to our vanishing point with a lifted pen. In this challenge you might perhaps do it when you have two faces defined(as you said) and forward from that point. When we make a scene/environment we can't just put our vanishing points in random places. There is a horizon, 1-3pp perspective, rotation of the object and other rules.
If I may, I would advise drawing a couple of boxes sharing the same vanishing points. During this challenge we only learn how to draw ONE box with nothing that relates to it in space and shares the same vanishing points.
Yes! I meant putting a dot on vanishing point(not a line touching it) only after it's been defined(not in random places or any guesses), & of-course ghosting toward the vanishing point with lifted pen without any extension(even when putting the dot for vp) before we're supposed to do it(which is after a page is done).
Okay! I'll trying drawing boxes sharing same vp.
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