Congratulations for completing the 250 Box Challenge!
From what I can see your line work is well done and your boxes are coming along well. When I compare your early boxes to your final sets I can see that your mark making quality improved as you progressed through the challenge. You made some good progress with your extra line weight as well. You also do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points!
While you have made some good progress with adding line weight to your boxes, there is still some room for improvement though. 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 original mark. This will allow you to create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines that reinforces the illusion of solidity in your boxes/forms. Extra line weight should never be used to correct or hide mistakes. You can also read more about this here.
Finally while your converges 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.
Congrats again and good luck with lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Continue to lesson 2!
Thanks for the thorough assessment. I think the biggest thing I learned through this challenge was when and how to do the exercise to take best advantage of my skills, i.e. how time of day, mood, warmups, posture, and even coffee intake affect my accuracy and ability.
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