250 Box Challenge
3:35 PM, Saturday April 18th 2020
here is the second album 191-250 (only 50 pages per album on Imgur.
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3:04 PM, Monday April 20th 2020
Yo, TA qzhans here!
Before we begin, I just want to congratulate you on giving those 250 boxes a good ol’ pen and ink smackdown. It is a hefty undertaking and you’ve joined the prestiged club of its completers.
You’ve diligently drawn through all your boxes and extended every line out to check your errors, and your boxes have been better for it. Indeed, you’ve made a marked improvement throughout the set, getting closer and closer to a good understanding of convergence.
One issue I'd like to bring up is how the length of your error lines gradually began to shorten out throughout the set, to the point where it was hard to tell if there was divergence or not. Make sure to extend it out 2-3 times the original line length, and don’t be afraid to crash it into other boxes. These exercises are for you, not to be presentable.
That has had a side effect of your middle back lines are still stubbornly not jumping in line with the rest of them sometimes. That’s okay, and is something that gets ironed out over time, but I’ll offer some advice. When you go to draw a line, think only about the lines that are supposed to be parallel to it (share a vanishing point). Lines closer to an existing line will converge slower, while the opposite is true for lines further away.
Final nitpick is that you could’ve experimented with line weight more. It seems it fell off throughout the set.
Overall, your understanding of convergences is coming along quite well. I’m certain it will serve you well in the rest of Drawabox!
Next Steps:
Lesson 2
11:21 AM, Tuesday April 21st 2020
okay thanks alot!
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