250 Box Challenge

8:04 PM, Saturday May 14th 2022

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hello, sorry this took so long. i tried to drop in a pdf with all the pictures arranged in order but was unable to. Imgur claims that i can rearrange the pics butthat woudnt work either. Anyway, if its too much work for you ill just figure out another way to get the pics to you.

Thanks so much for all the help

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11:42 PM, Tuesday May 17th 2022

Hey there, so imgur does work but you only linked to one image and not the album with all of them.

Don't worry about the order as long as the boxes/pages are numbered we can see what we need.

Reply to this with a corrected link and I'll go over your work as soon as I can.

Next Steps:

Send a corrected link to the rest of your boxes please.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
2:58 AM, Wednesday May 18th 2022

https://imgur.com/a/ZNJ7xZd

thanks, hopefully this works.

5:27 AM, Wednesday May 18th 2022

It does, thanks.

Congratulations on completing the box challenge, it's definitely a lot more work than most people expect. Not only does it help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. Be proud of what you've accomplished and that desire you've shown. That being said I'll try to keep this critique fairly brief so you can get working on the next steps as soon as possible.

Things you did well:

  • Your construction lines are looking smooth and confidently drawn.

  • You're doing a great job of experimenting with orientations, proportions and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is an important habit to build when learning any new skill, it helps form a more well rounded understanding. I hope you'll continue to display and nurture this habit in the future.

Things you can work on:

  • You tend to draw fairly small, I'd like you to draw larger in the future. Drawing large will help you become more comfortable working from the shoulder and allow you to see any misakes you've made more clearly.

  • When hatching you want to have both ends of the lines touching an edge of the form they're being drawn on rather than being left floating. Usually when left floating like this it's caused by people hesitating while worrying about accuracy. Remember to take your time to space each line with the ghosting method, and then draw them confidently just like any other line, accuracy will improve with more mileage.

  • Line weight isn't a requirement of the challenge but I do recommend practicing it in your future attempts. It's an incredibly useful tool but one that people often require a fair bit of mileage before they feel comfortable applying it. The sooner you start to build up that mileage the sooner you'll see better results.

  • There are times when your lines converge in pairs or you attempt to keep your lines a bit too parallel which results in them diverging. This is an example of lines converging in pairs, and this shows the relation between each line in a set and their respective vanishing point. The inner pair of lines will be quite similar unless the box gets quite long and the outer pair can vary a lot depending on the location of the vanishing point. Move it further away and the lines become closer to parallel while moving it closer increases the rate of foreshortening.

The key things we want to remember from this exercise are that our lines should always converge as a set not in pairs, never diverge from the vanishing point and due to perspective they won't be completely parallel.

Overall while you did make a few mistakes your boxes are improving so far and with more mileage you'll continue to become more consistent. That being said I'll be marking your submission as complete and move you on to lesson 2.

Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups, and good luck.

Next Steps:

Move on to lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
4:18 PM, Wednesday May 18th 2022

Wow, thanks so much. I will keep what you said at heart and get busy with the next lesson.

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