Good day, took me a while to complete the challenge. Doing it before definitely helped, and my time doing advanced lessons like "thinking in 3D" and "making it feel 3D to you" helped me my mental image of the box. Looking forward to your critique. Cheers.
Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.
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:
You're drawing smooth and confident looking lines.
When you applying hatching it's well thought out, evenly spaced and kept tidy rather than just rushing your lines on to the form.
It's not a requirement of the challenge so it's nice to see you're implementing line weight. It's a useful tool but one that most people feel they need a bit of mileage with before it starts to become something they feel they can use comfortably.
Great work experimenting with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is an important part of the learning process and helps us develop a more well rounded understanding of the concept's we're trying to learn. Without doing so we risk only being able to draw one particular way. I hope you continue to nurture this habit in the future as well.
Overall your convergences have become more consistent as you've progressed throughout the challenge which shows that your sense of 3D space is coming along quite nicely, good work.
Things you can work on:
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 moving you on to lesson 2.
Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups, and good luck.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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