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.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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