Hello!
Good job on completing the 250 box challenge.
I can see that the confidence in your lines has improved over the course of the exercise however I can still see some wobbling especially on the the superimposed lines. remember to use the hosting method on every mark, its fine if its not accurate, confidence is more important. You should also do this for the cross hatching on the boxes too.
In terms of the convergences of your boxes, they are actually done quite well, you also have some good variety of foreshortening on your boxes. although alot of your boxes have the same shape, try experiment with different size combination of all the different sizes.
with your extention lines dont be afraid to go even further with them and cross over into other boxes.
The last thing I would like to mention is the inner corner which alot of people struggle with. this is because its affected by the accumulation of all the mistakes of all your other lines. one way to improve this is to think about the relationship of all the lines together instead of just pairs of lines. One way of doing this is changing the order you draw the lines to draw the inner corner first before the last face. here is a guide that shows the order im talking about. and here is guide explaining how this works.
Keep up the good work and when you get more confortable with your boxes during warmups try some of the advanced exercises
Next Steps:
Next up, Lesson 2!
although not required, before starting lesson 2 I think you should do some critiques of some of your fellow student on this site. It really goes a long way in helping you improve your own skills. You can use Elodins guides to help you write them.
Thank you so much for taking the time to critique! I was having an especially hard time with the inner corners and had no idea how to align them properly with the rest of the box so those tutorials were very helpful!
Where the rest of my recommendations tend to be for specific products, this one is a little more general. It's about printer paper.
As discussed in Lesson 0, printer paper (A4 or 8.5"x11") is what we recommend. It's well suited to the kind of tools we're using, and the nature of the work we're doing (in terms of size). But a lot of students still feel driven to sketchbooks, either by a desire to feel more like an artist, or to be able to compile their work as they go through the course.
Neither is a good enough reason to use something that is going to more expensive, more complex in terms of finding the right kind for the tools we're using, more stress-inducing (in terms of not wanting to "ruin" a sketchbook - we make a lot of mistakes throughout the work in this course), and more likely to keep you from developing the habits we try to instill in our students (like rotating the page to find a comfortable angle of approach).
Whether you grab the ream of printer paper linked here, a different brand, or pick one up from a store near you - do yourself a favour and don't make things even more difficult for you. And if you want to compile your work, you can always keep it in a folder, and even have it bound into a book when you're done.
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