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250 Box Challenge

11:41 PM, Thursday September 24th 2020

Lesson 1 - Album on Imgur

Direct Link: https://i.imgur.com/UCRszVE.jpg

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Hello! I was told in my last official critique that I could submit 150 boxes instead of 250 as I completed the 250 box challenge in the past. I hope thats ok!

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10:40 PM, Friday September 25th 2020

Just to let you know that you linked the wrong lesson, so I am going to mark you as "needs revisions" and you can just comment here with the correct link and I will give you your critique.

Next Steps:

Please link me to the correct album so that I can critique your 250 Box Challenge.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
2:54 PM, Monday September 28th 2020

Oh whoops! Thanks for letting me know :) . Here's the proper link: https://imgur.com/gallery/JZKiRK9

9:36 PM, Monday September 28th 2020

Thank you for getting me the right link!

Overall you did great! Your lines are straight and confident looking. You also do a pretty good job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing point.

For the future, I recommend that you start trying to add some extra line weight to your boxes, as shown here. This will help further reinforce the illusion of solidity in your boxes/forms.

You said you had done the challenge before, so maybe you have seen this before. But before I send you off I want to show you this diagram just in case as it can help a lot with thinking through your convergences. 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.

Congratulations on completing the box challenge (again) and good luck with lesson 2!

Next Steps:

Continue to lesson 2!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
2:44 PM, Tuesday September 29th 2020

Thank you very much for your feedback! ^-^

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