250 Box Challenge
5:32 AM, Tuesday February 11th 2020
Hello, here is my submission for the 250 box challenge.
Hey, really nice work getting through the whole challenge! This is quite the gauntlet and not many make it this far, so tons of kudos to you!
So you start off with very strong line work, both in the initial box and the application of line weight. Your convergences are also quite strong too, so you're coming in with some pretty solid boxes. That said, I do see a decent amount of improvement, especially in the consistency of your correction lines. Towards the end, there are far fewer stray lines and each set is pretty consistently converging towards the right point.
However, I believe you may have packed your boxes onto the page too tightly, which might've hindered your learning as you tried to make sense of the correction lines. This may be why you still have a few stray convergences even towards the end of the challenge. This isn't at all a bad thing, as the process of learning how to free hand those convergences isn't an overnight one but all those packed boxes might've made it more difficult to make sense of where your errors were. During warm-ups I definitely recommend that you limit it to 3-4 boxes per page, with enough space that you can see the correction lines without them overlapping.
Overall, though, this is very solid work and you show a good amount of improvement in both your line work and your convergence lines. We link these notes at the end of every challenge as a matter of course. They go over the angle of the correction lines as they approach the box and how keeping an eye on this relationship may help you tame those stray lines. It could also help to consider the angle of each line in relation to the lines with which it shares a vanishing point, rather than the lines with which it shares a plane or a corner.
Next Steps:
I'm happy to mark this as complete and send you on to Lesson 2. Good luck!
Thank you!
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