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3:34 PM, Friday August 7th 2020
Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!
You did really well overall. At the beginning your boxes were a little hesitant and I can see you struggled at first with getting your sets of parallel lines to converge consistently towards their shared vanishing points. But as you progressed through the challenge you construction grew cleaner and more confident overall. By then end of the challenge you did a much better job of constructing your boxes with smooth, confident looking lines and your sets of parallel lines do a better job of converging correctly!
In the future I would encourage you to start adding some additional line weight to your boxes, like what is shown here.. When you go to add weight to a line it is important that you treat the added weight the same way you would a brand new line. That means taking your time to plan and ghost through your mark so that when you go to execute it the mark blends seamlessly with your previous mark. This will allow you to build and create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines.
Finally while your convergences do improve overall I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. 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. This can serve as a useful hint.
Great job again and good luck with lesson 2!
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Continue to lesson 2!
4:36 AM, Saturday August 8th 2020
Thank you!
I tried to vary the line weight by changing the pressure on the pen, but it was difficult to get much variation. Silly me -- I didn't realize that it was OK to draw another line on top! Perhaps I assumed this because I have a Wacom tablet with a pressure-sensitive stylus. Anyway, lesson learned!
Thanks again,
Kent
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