250 Box Challenge

12:29 AM, Friday May 8th 2020

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1:37 PM, Tuesday May 12th 2020

Hey there cosmodious, good job on finishing 250 boxes. This is no small feat so you should feel proud. Let's get to the critique.

You have made a lot of progress in terms of your line quality and sense of perspective here. Unfortunately you drew your boxes too small. As instructed here you were to keep your boxes to 5-6 per page maximum. This is because drawing small boxes, and therefore having shorter lines and closer VPs, is easier. Additionally, in these lessons especially you won't need to utilize boxes at this small scale nearly as often as you would larger boxes.

This being said I am not going to critique these boxes at this time since you won't nearly get as much out of it. I am going to ask for 30 mmore boxes at the correct size. I will however show you the infographic uncomfortable has made about parallel lines in perspective so you can get more out of your next 30 boxes. The key take away here is that we must view our parallel lines as a single unit tied together by the vanishing point. As the vanishing point changes, the angles between them change. This means that as you lay down your first line, it sets the vanishing piont and determines how all of your other lines will behave. This means we have to learn to "step back" and consider all of the parallel lines simultaneously as opposed to one at a time. As an example, students will often draw a box plane by plane. As they draw the lines of the first plane they make sure all the lines are correct and converging right but then as they move to the next plane they don't consider the lines they have already put down. This often times results in two points of convergence instead of the one true vanishing point. It definitely is easier said than done, but once you're aware of these things and ask you practice them it becomes more intuitive and things start to fall into place.

So go ahead and re-read the entire box challenge to make sure you are following all of the instructions and then draw 30 more boxes. When you are finished we will go from there.

Next Steps:

30 more boxes, making sure to follow all of the instructions.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
5:29 PM, Thursday May 14th 2020

Hi Svendogee, thanks for the feedback. Apologies for not doing the boxes the right size, I guess I let excitement get the better of me. Anyway, here are those extra boxes. I feel like I had some really good ones in there then lost it on the last two pages and I'm not really sure what happened.

https://imgur.com/a/wv4nLy0

1:28 AM, Saturday May 16th 2020

That's ok! These are looking nice. As long as you keep practicing being mindful of your parallel lines as an ensemble while working on your boxes in warm ups you will continue to improve. Keup the good work and consider your challenge as complete.

Next Steps:

Lesson 2

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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