250 Box Challenge
8:48 PM, Saturday August 21st 2021
250 boxes done, across 50 A4 pages. And it only took me 2 months. woow.
I'd love to say I made significant headway towards aligning my vanishing points, but I consistently struggled to get the inner lines to align, all the way up to the 250th box. I even tried shifting my approach and pre-plotted the inner intersections, but I think I started doing that too late at around the 180th box; I felt I actually dipped in quality to begin with and only just started to improve with the new method at the last 10 or so boxes.
I did use the Y axis generator for the 1st 100 boxes and I have to admit that my box variety decreased afterwards. I don't think I did as many extreme ones as the generator forced me to do, but I presume that's a common issue so I'm not gonna beat myself up over that.
I also ran into issues with some of the outer lines not being angled enough, but I got a little better at those over time. I think another 100 and I would have ironed that out for the most part... PLEASE don't make do any more boxes though.
On days where I did the rough or plotted perspective as a warmup I noticed my lines were less confident and I was more prone to retrying a line when compared to days where I just did ghosted planes as my warmup. I did attempt to do half and half but that didn't really counteract the issue. In fact I think those were the days where I did the absolute worst. In the end I focused more on the plotted planes as that was the one that seemed to have a more beneficial effect on my drawing over all. In fact I think my line confidence has overall improved and some of my hatching actually looks like proper hatching now, which DEFINITELY wasn't a thing before, because I did the ghosted planes as a warm up so often.
Overall, still sturggled a bit by the end and never managed to get a perfect box, but I did see improvement so that's good enough for me right now.