At last, I've finished my 250 boxes! I was going strong over the summer, but may progressed was significantly slowed by the start of school and health issues around Box #218. I appreciate any feedback I can get and definitely feel I made the most progress in the first 150 boxes.
Hello! Your pizza shall be delivered soon, but I'm here to critique your boxes today. Before doing so, great job on completing the 250 Box Challenge! Tis' the most infamous part of Drawabox, and by getting through it you've proved to have the resolve required to finish the course and the determination of an artist.
Your Lines look awesome. They're confident, smooth, straight and only minor and occasional wobbling, hesitation or arching can be perceived. It's clear you're using your shoulder and prioritizing confidence over accuracy, and there was visible improvement on all of those matters by the time you finished the challenge. Your only real issue is that you sometimes repeat your lines, which should NEVER be done throughout all of Drawabox, but that's nitpicky.
For the most part, you applied Line Weight and Hatching correctly in all of your boxes, and since those are optional, you get extra points. Your line weight is rather innaccurate, and for that I suspect you might not be making use of the Ghosting Method thoroughly enough for that matter, but other than that it'll improve with practice.
Your Box Construction is excellent, and there isn't much to point out. You've done a wide variety of boxes with a wide variety of foreshortening, with mostly correct extension lines and visible improvement in figuring out the convergence of lines. That's the meat of the challenge, so good job!
Overall, you did an outstanding job. I'm happy to mark this submission as complete. You're demonstrated to be ready for Lesson 2. If you want to try them out, you can also check out the advanced box exercises. Best of luck!
Next Steps:
Lesson 2.
I appreciate the critique and am excited to move on to Lesson 2. I will make sure to check myself before I redraw a line and ghost more thoroughly when applying line weight in the future.
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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