250 Box Challenge
9:37 PM, Tuesday March 10th 2020
Finally made it!
Hey Loopy! Really nice work getting through the whole challenge. 250 boxes ain't nothing to sneeze at, so this is always an admirable feat.
At the beginning, your linework is strong and you maintain this consistency throughout the rest of the challenge, which is great to see. Your superimposed lines become stronger as well in the sense that you're applying lineweight more steadily, although I believe you could benefit from applying the ghosting technique a little more liberally at this part. You're getting a bit of a wobble as you try to match your second line to your first, which is understandable, but you want to maintain consistency as you go.
You convergences have a lot of stray lines to start, but you start to correct this pretty quickly as you go through the challenge. Each sets starts to converge very consistently, until the end when you have virtually no stray or diverging lines. Really nice work there! I think this challenge did you a lot of good.
Check out these notes. We like link them at the end of every challenge as a matter of course; they're less guidance and more a tool that may help you improve further, or confirm conclusions you came to during the course of the challenge. They go the angle of each line as they approach the box and how keeping an eye on this relationship could improve your convergences. Also, considering 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 could do the same.
Next Steps:
Overall, your work is neat, thoughtful, and showing a lot of clear improvement. As you go forward, I suggest practicing a bit more with different levels of foreshortening. It will continuously help you solidify your grasp of 3D space and allow you to add different perspectives to your toolbox. I'm happy to mark this as complete and send you on to Lesson 2. good luck!
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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