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250 Box Challenge

4:15 PM, Tuesday November 24th 2020

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Hello!

So here is the challenge.

Things I tried to improve from previous critique:

- notable wobble on short lines

- slowing down at the end of the lines (tried not to and lift the pen towards the end), quite often caught myself still slowing down especially when applying lineweight.

When I was drawing the edges, I prioritized (tried) for them to follow the VP rather than to connect to other already established corners.

Even towards the end of the challenge the convergences aren't as good as I would have hoped. Perhaps I still did rush too much although it didn't seem taht way when drawing.

The double or multiple lines are 90% caused by me trying to add lineweight rather than to fix the line (I swear).

Hopefully this paragraph is useful in any way (and all the images are OK).

Anyway I thank you for your time.

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1:35 AM, Thursday November 26th 2020

Congratulations for completing the 250 Box Challenge!

Before we begin I just want to let you know that in general TAs will ignore student self assessment or critique so as not to contaminate our own critique of your work. If you have any questions not answered in your critique, feel free to ask them here.

Back to your critique.

You've done a good job on the challenge overall. Your mark making is consistently straight and confident looking. I can see you made some progress with adding extra line weight to your boxes. You also do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points!

While your converges do improve overall I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. So, when you are looking at your sets of lines you want to be focusing only on the lines that share a vanishing point. This does not include lines that share a corner or a plane, only lines that converge towards the same vanishing point. Now when you think of those lines, including those that have not been drawn, you can think about the angles from which they leave the vanishing point. Usually the middle lines have a small angle between them, and this angle will become negligible by the time they reach the box. This can serve as a useful hint.

Congrats again and good luck with lesson 2!

Next Steps:

Continue to lesson 2!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
10:05 PM, Thursday November 26th 2020

Advice noted, and thank you for the clarification on my original post message.

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