250 Box Challenge
10:41 AM, Sunday April 25th 2021
After around two months of sweat and work, I am very glad to have finally finished the 250 box challenge :D ! Alongside my submission, I would like to share my view on my progression as well as mistakes. I followed a drawing approach, where you first draw 2/3 of the box, then draw the two inner lines, and finally complete the third part of the box, first by dong the final inner line. It facilitated the progress immensely.
From my first boxes to my last ones, I can see that I have managed to improve the aim of the box lines-edges to their respective vanishing points. I think that I have improved, concerning the manner I use my shoulder to make the lines in general. During my progression, I realised even better why lines closer to each other should be more parallel. In the final pages, I even felt more confident in placing the first outer points. I identified some patterns of my mistakes, apart from technical ones, which helped me improve from some issues. Some of such patterns involve ( btw when I am saying lines, I mean the edges, which point to their VP, from which I extend with red, green or blue):
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Diverging inner lines.
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Three out of four lines meeting whereas the fourth outer line (mostly) would meet a VP which is closer or more far away.
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Inner lines meeting sooner than outer lines.
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Parallel two inner lines.
I do think that for such mistakes, first, the direction of the outer lines, and then the inner lines played a great role. Some of my mistakes do refer to some inner spots not being placed properly, ex. divergence , while issues such as 3 lines out of 4 meeting the spot do refer to the final outer mark being either too high or too short ( since I did the 2/3 method I mentioned).
Some of the mistakes that I have acknowledged involve the too intense highlight on the border of the boxes ( and I did that quite a lot unfortunately during the second half :( ), accidentally marking the VP as I was ghosting the lines ( sometimes I tend to have the pen really close to the paper ). Since I do lack confidence sometimes, and since my fineliner almost got destroyed, there are cases I redid lines from one spot to another. And finally, for a duration, I totally forgot to do some creative drawing apart from the challenge ( oops ... ), which burned me out once or twice, thus the sort of inconsistency on the accuracy of my extended lines after box 125 or so. On the other hand, I did daily warmups for around 15-30 minutes max before each page.
In the end, I will integrate some boxes in my warmups. I hope I am good to progress on the challenge, since I am highly motivated to get as far as I can! Thanks, and have a nice day!!! ^_^