Hello! finally after many nights of seeing vanishing points in my dreams, I got to finish my entries for the 250 Boxes Challenge. I made this over the course of one year, so you will notice many inconsistencies. Sorry about that! I tried my best to finish this challenge though, and I really saw improvements about 100 boxes in. This was fun even though I really struggled at the start.
Thank you for any critique you can give me :)
Hi JI, Hoping you're well.
You probably saw this coming but don't erase/hide your marks. Every mistakes helps you improve even better if you take a note of it.
Your edge extensions are in almost always in right direction & the hatching is done on a front facing face. Mistake happens but they're in the minority.
I had to confirm this with others but I can't find any lineweight done in your boxes, this is one of the important part of the challenge, see https://drawabox.com/lesson/250boxes/1/lineweight section of the challenge.
Sometimes your edges converge in pairs, this can happen if the inner corner come out somewhat off the expected position(see below) or you might have lost the vanishing point. Visualize the angles for convergence of different edges at vanishing point, see this https://imgur.com/8PqQLE0 for better understanding.
If your inner corner is coming out pretty off, then you can try to draw them after doing first two faces of the box, so that you don't miss their convergence, see https://imgur.com/a/DHlA3Jh.
In page with Box 116 & the last page, you lines are diverging instead of converging toward the vanishing point. If you keep the initial corner within the parallel bounds of the adjacent edges of the initial Y, those lines will always be converge. See this https://i.imgur.com/cx2jmv9.png to see what I mean.
Overall you've done good job of drawing the box in 3 point perspective over the course of a year, just a little more push is needed before you move to next part.
Edit:
Add this to the revisions:
Next Steps:
2 boxes with dramatic foreshortening
4 boxes with shallow foreshortening
Lines should be converging towards the vanishing point all of the times.
Reply with link to the revisions.
Thank you so much for taking the time to critique this :D I apologize for the missing lineweight, I must have forgotten the rule to apply them. I'll make sure to do over the rest of my pages and apply the needed lineweight (soon!). For the diverging lines, I'm still in the process of adjusting my arm control to make my ghosted lines follow my ghosted dot more accurately. But I agree with everything you said and will apply these builds in my future practice!
Here are my works for the requested revision: http://imgur.com/gallery/MLCzfnW
I still faced errors in this revision but I made sure to thoroughly follow the rules in the links you provided.
Good work on the revisions & yeah there are mistakes but you can keep them(& instructions above) in mind when doing warm ups, boxes can improve a lot over time.
For future lessons & challenges be sure to read the instructions multiple times(may be before every sessions like told in the draw a box workflow) so stuff like missing line weight cannot happen again.
Next Steps:
Congrats! You've completed Box Challenge, now go ahead and start Lesson 2.
Understood :D Thank you so much for your time again!
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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