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5:03 PM, Saturday August 13th 2022
Hello there, I'll try to give you some review of your 250 Box Challenge.
What you did well:
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Most of your boxes look believable and it appears that you understand the basic concepts of perspective
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You hatched planes that are on the front
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Your lines appear to be fairly straight, good job!
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You did not redraw lines that went wrong
Things you can work on:
-Many of your boxes have parallel lines and sometime even diverging lines (https://imgur.com/mWLlnYl). Try to make them converge closer, so pick vanishing points that are on the page itself, that makes the boxes more foreshortened and therefore also easier to ghost your lines towards that point. I did not see a lot of extreme foreshortening, so it might be helpful to at least try to experiment and see what happens as you move the VPs closer to the boxes.
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In most of your boxes one of the lines from the initial Y is perfectly vertical, so try to get some more variance in the orientation of the Y to make more interesting boxes (the process remains the same)
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You should take more time doing tidy hatchings, your lines should always start at the edge of one plane and ideally not fall short of the plane. Your hatching lines are falling short on both ends, as if floating somewhere inside the plane. Start at one edge and pull through the plane so it touches the other edge. Don't be afraid to overshoot, as that is still better then undershooting
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It seems you picked the planes which you hatched randomly, that's totally fine, but some boxes are harder to read than others because of that. I always advice to hatch in the plane that covers the inner corner (that is also the biggest most of the time, although not always, depending in the shape of the box) so there is no confusion which plane is in front of the other
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You could advance your correction lines a bit further so it get's more clear if and where they actually converge. As mentioned before, some of your boxes have parallel ones or even diverging ones, at least it looks like that, it's hard to tell if there is convergence if it only converges slightly and the correction lines are short.
Overall I can see improvement in your boxes as you did this challenge and your boxes appear believable.
Next Steps:
Next up is lesson 2, have fun and don't give up (it's a though one) as it is sure worth it!
5:30 PM, Saturday August 13th 2022
Thank you very much for your comments and advice!
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