250 Box Challenge
1:19 AM, Sunday June 19th 2022
This is my submission on 250 boxes challenge, it took me more than a month to finish all the pages.
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11:51 PM, Wednesday June 22nd 2022
Hey Ard1nel1!
First of all i'd to congratulate you on finishing the 250 Boxes Challenge!
I'll point out some things i noticed in your drawings:
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Some of the things you did correctly was to extend the lines on the right direction, your hatching looks great, the line weight was only added to the silhouette of the boxes and you varied a lot the orientation and proportions of the boxes.
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Your lines look really good, they are confident and straight, but they sometimes wobble a bit when you add line weight so
be careful to always ghost you lines and draw from your shoulder, even on short lines.
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Since the beginning of the challenge your lines didn't really diverged very much which is great, you kept them converging into the their vanishing points pretty consistently. However i noticed some issues with the inner corners, since it reflects all the accumulated errors of the box, so my advice is to be a bit more careful and make more planning by thinking about the relationship between all the lines. Additionally i'll leave you two links that can help you out too, the first one shows how to take advantage of the lines that are close to each other and make them parallel https://i.imgur.com/8PqQLE0.png, and the other one shows how to draw the inner corner before the last line of the box https://imgur.com/a/DHlA3Jh, this makes it easier to correct the box.
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Another thing i noticed is that a lot of your boxes have a more dramatic foreshortening and i think is great that you tried to push yourself, however because of this they came out somewhat distorted, so a good thing to avoid this is to keep the angle of the Y at least 90 degrees.
Generally your boxes look great, and your mistakes minimized throughout the exercise. I think you understood the concepts of this challenge pretty well, which is supposed to teach you a bit more about form in 3D space.
Again, congratulations on finishing the challenge and i think you're ready for Lesson 2!!
Next Steps:
On to lesson 2!
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