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6:02 AM, Friday April 10th 2020
Hey Tiny, great job making it through the 250 box challenge!
It's great to see you consistently applied line weight, hatching, and check lines throughout the challenge. This ensured you got some excellent amount of mileage out of the challenge. I did notice that you did apply line weight occasionally to the internal lines of your boxes.
You've drawn a good mix of shallow and more extreme foreshortening. Generally your more shallowly foreshortened boxes are better in terms of convergences. Whilst you've limited your boxes to four per page, you shouldn't be afraid to draw them larger and overlap the check lines as you should still be able to pick up the issues in your convergences. You've made a good amount of improvement in your convergences, there's still some issues present in your final boxes - such as the rear vertical lines diverging and parallel lines converging in pairs. This is generally the result of small mistakes on the lines that come before them compounding onto that final line. The angles of your lines will all converge in a predictable pattern towards the vanishing point. As you'll see in the diagram, the green and orange lines (internal) are so close in angle so as to be almost parallel, whilst the others converge more sharply towards the vanishing point. Keep thinking about this as you practice your boxes in your warm-ups.
Next Steps:
Feel free to move onto lesson 2
Sakura Pigma Microns
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.