250 Box Challenge

5:05 PM, Tuesday July 16th 2024

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250 boxes have been completed.The link above shows the first 53. The rest of the boxes have been organized into separate links. Please see the respective descriptions.

's 1 - 53 Also in link above

https://imgur.com/a/qPSnS8O

's 54 - 100.

https://imgur.com/a/GdHlYR0

's 101 - 138

https://imgur.com/a/L0KBidr

's 139 - 200. Started 139 after receiving feedback. For the last 100 boxes or so, the notes consist of the following: day is # on far left, 24 hour time, box #, and various notes respectively.

https://imgur.com/a/v8Dhz21

's 201 - 250.

https://imgur.com/a/CDfkAaz

Please let me know if you have any questions, suggestions, or redos. This challenge was a lot of work and a lot of fun. From the results of many experiments, I made tons of mistakes and enjoyed the learning along the way.

For some reason the official critique is not working. No worries. Looking forward to the community's feedback. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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7:31 AM, Friday July 19th 2024

Helloooo! Congratulations on completing the 250 box challenge! Give yourself a pat on the back. It’s a lot of work after all! That aside, I’ll be taking a look at your submission.

Things you did well:

  • You're doing a fantastic job of experimenting with the orientation, proportions, and rates of foreshortening with your boxes. Admittedly, they could get visually distracting at times, making it difficult to see certain vanishing points. Experimentation is always a good habit to have when building a new skill, however, especially when it comes to building a new skill, so I do have to commend it.

  • You chose to employ hatching lines, and lineweight. These were optional, but highly recommended as they're valuable pracitce. Nice!

Things you can work on:

  • Your linework definitely shows signs of confidence. The form lines are certainly confident most of the time, albeit wobbling here and there. A not-so-negligible amount of the hatching lines, however, do show wobbling quite often. Remember, hatching lines should be evenly spaced, and ghosted in the same way form lines are.

  • Your use of lineweight demonstrates confidence, and I commend it! I just have a small nitpick though. When applying lineweight here, you generally want to outline just the silhouette of the box, rather than every line. Additionally, a single superimposed line is usually enough. Subtlety helps here.

  • You run into the issues of lines converging in pairs . You do also have lines that run a bit too parallel, and thus end up diverging by accident. Here's a useful diagram to visualize the convergence of lines and their relation to one another. As you can see, the inner lines of a box (green and orange in the diagram I linked), will usually be very similar unless the box is long. The outer pair (blue and purple) on the other hand would vary more wildly depending on the location of the vanishing point. The farther the vanishing point is, the closer to parallel the lines run. The closer the vanishing point is, the more foreshortened it becomes.

While I've made note of certain things in my critique, I'm quite confident that you understood the concepts laid out here. I'll be marking this submission as complete, and let you move on to lesson 2.

Keep practicing previous exercises for warmups. Keep my critiques in my mind if you end up drawing boxes. All in all, well done!

Next Steps:

Add boxes to warm-up pool. Ghost your hatching lines, use more subtle line weight, and continue refining box technique.

Move on to lesson 2.

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 4 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
1:07 AM, Saturday July 20th 2024

Thanks for taking the time to carefully critique the boxes.

The hatching was visually challenging and I will continue practicing.

I appreciate the feedback!

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