250 Box Challenge
4:35 PM, Friday February 3rd 2023
A few pages will be out of order.
So to start, I saw at the beginning of the challenge you was Extending lines in the wrong direction, but by moving forward in the exercise I noticed that you had corrected this. Also, you were extending only one vanishing point at the beginning but you have corrected it. However, I saw that often your lines are diverging or are parallel so watch out!
Here is a link for that: https://imgur.com/mWLlnYl
To continue I noticed that sometimes you were messing with the face that was facing to you, be careful with that. As well as your hatching lines often goes beyond the face, be meticulous with them. I will mention that often you are adding lineweight at a place where it's useless and they are also wobbly. You should also get a little bit more of variety in your box.
And to conclude a last note is Inner corner, a way to improve them is to start thinking about the relationships between lines instead of just thinking about the lines in pairs. When drawing the lines of the boxes, the student should keep in mind all the other lines in the set, comparing their angles and making a guess based on them. This diagram explain this more clearly:
https://i.imgur.com/8PqQLE0.png
The diagram can be pretty hard to understand at first, so if you don't understand it, don't get frustrated, keep reading it from time to time while practicing regularly, and it will click eventually.
Next Steps:
I want you to do 10 box and try to apply and correct what I mention good luck.
Here are my revisions https://imgur.com/a/CKCeM2A
Well, it's okay but some of your lines are parallel or diverging here is something that can help you : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mteUPdCHn4s&t=
Moreover you have many things that may help you on the discord server in basic-challenges pinned messages.
Next Steps:
I want you to do 5 more box.
I think that I will add some boxes to my warmup routine to help make me more patient when constructing them.
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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