250 Box Challenge
4:29 PM, Friday February 28th 2020
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1:39 PM, Saturday February 29th 2020
Hey there Kemaier! Really nice work getting through the whole challenge! 250 boxes is a gauntlet, and you clearly got a significant amount of mileage from this work!
Ok, so I do have a small concern starting out - your boxes are completely crowded on each page and I'm worried that this may have hindered your learning a little bit. The reason you want to give them some space is so your brain can process the correction lines and see where you might improve - when they're crowded like that, it's a lot of information to process and you're likely to miss details.
That said, you do show improvement towards the end of the challenge. Your line work is pretty strong, and your hatchmarks are thoughtfully placed, which is great to see. As for your convergences, each set of correction lines shows a good deal of consistency, with few straying lines. However, it appears you focused mainly on two point perspective, with very little rotation in your boxes or exploration into different angles. Again, I believe this may have hindered your learning. Don't be afraid to try a new angle and fail! We're looking for improvement, not perfection, so experimentation is very much welcome.
Okay, so, we link these notes at the end of every challenge as a matter of course. They're some extra notes that may help you improve further, or confirm conclusions you came to during the course of the challenge. What they go over is 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.
I would like for you to submit 10 more boxes, keeping these notes in mind. Give your boxes room to breathe - limiting yourself to 2 boxes per page, and try a few boxes in different perspectives.
Next Steps:
Submit 10 more boxes, with no more than 2 boxes per page, keeping these notes in mind and trying different perspectives. Good luck!
12:07 AM, Wednesday March 4th 2020
Thank you so much for the feedback! I was wondering if I put too many boxes on one page (will remember that for cylinders). 10 boxes attached. I had some trouble trying to getting them some of them in a different perspective (the central line in 2 point was helpful and I felt a little lost without it), but here are some attempts. Let me know if you have additional feedback and thanks again!
12:24 AM, Wednesday March 4th 2020
Really nice! These are showing improvement already. Remember to continue practicing these during warm up as you go forward in order to really solidify that understanding of 3D.
Next Steps:
Marking this as complete and sending you on to Lesson 2. Good luck!
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