Here's my 250 boxes, I've submitted it here before:
https://drawabox.com/community/submission/ZM0DRUJT
Hope you're safe and healthy. Thank you again.
Hello Nyarle, thanks for the kind wishes, we hope you are safe and healthy as well! Congratulations on finishing your boxes, so let's get to the critique!
I am struck by your analysis, "I really didn't know how much I didn't know." The 250 box challenge is as much a mental game as it is a drawing challenge, so seeing that you are self aware like this shows you were really engaged with the mental half. In terms of your actual boxes you've made a lot of progress throughout in both your understanding of three dimensional space and the accompanying intuition, but also in your line work. Your boxes feel pretty solid, but one thing you could work on to improve that solidity even more is a better consideration of line weight. As explained here your silhouette should have the heaviest weight and interior lines lightest. In some cases your interior lines get a little too heavy and break the illusion but overall pretty good job. As you progress, your convergences are improving as well, and while there is still some trouble with skewed "back lines" you are on the right track and where we expect students to be. At this point, we have this infographic we share after you've had time to struggle and work through these problems alone first. What this infographic explains is how all parallel lines are related and must all be considered in ensemble when drawing them. They're all bound together by a mutual vanishing point and the distance of said vp determines the angles between lines. The trouble students often have is drawing a line while considering all it's other parallel lines simultaneously. The average process goes something like: initial Y, one plane - make it nice and converge correctly, next plane - make convergences nice, but no regard to the first lines you drew. Once you can start to "step back" and consider all lines in tandem and their interior angles, that is when everything really falls into place.
Next Steps:
You've done a good job overall. You followed instructions, drew your boxes mindfully, and did 250 of them! Your next stop is lesson 2. In your warm ups remember not to neglect boxes, and try to practice drawing some larger ones from time to time - it will be helpful for later on. See you next time!
While i was drawing boxes, considering each lines of 'Y', i tend to draw them parallel and it seems the vanishing poin is at infinity which is why horizontal line seem to run parallel to horizon and vertical line tend to move perpendicular to horizon....but if we are to consider vanishing points then os it obvious as we draw and understand 3D space we tend to converge more?
What am i getting wrong? please answer this anybody!!
First off, it's inappropriate for you to ask a question on someone else's paid homework submission post. If you have questions, post them in the question section of the website. Everyone who has asked there thus far has received answers, so there's no reason for you to try and sneak your question like this.
Now, to answer your question, you should always draw your boxes for this challenge with a specific vanishing point in mind. The point of the exercise is to learn how to estimate convergences even towards far, far off vanishing points, so if you're just drawing all three sets of lines as though they're parallel on the page itself (in 2D space), with no convergence at all towards vanishing points (which may be very far off the page), then you're doing it incorrectly.
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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