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250 Box Challenge

12:57 PM, Monday April 19th 2021

250 boxes challenge - Google Drive

250 boxes challenge - Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LXJvoTFSRe2OJpVSiNErcSuWPjlLBEz5?usp=sharing

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Even though the margin of error on my boxes is still way too high at the end of the challenge I feel like I gained a lot out of doing the challenge in terms of understanding 3d space and foreshortening. I feel like I gained a lot in line confidence as well, but I still have a lot to learn especially in controlling where my lines end. I'm often overshooting the goal of the line (the dot) or not reaching it, which is especially visible in the crosshatching.

If there are any double lines, on the outside of the boxes that is not me trying to correct any missed line, but me reinforcing the outer lines of the box to give it a bit more lineweight than the inside lines.

Looking forward to hearing the feedback :)

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8:33 PM, Monday April 19th 2021

Congratulations for completing the 250 Box Challenge!

I can see you made some good improvement with the quality of your mark making. Your lines steadily become straighter and more confident looking as you progressed through the challenge. You drew your boxes at a pretty good size and with a variety of orientations and foreshortening. You also start to 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 as well. 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!

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8:48 PM, Thursday June 10th 2021

Awesome, thanks for the tip and the feedback!

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