12:04 PM, Tuesday June 29th 2021
So this is my feedback.
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Your line quality is not confident over most of the boxes. Remember that is confidence over accuracy.
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You mostly tried to draw boxes that are almost parallel.
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Your hatching looks very messy and has the same problem as the boxes. To get good at line quality you need to practice being intentional.
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As you mentioned you did those fundamental "mistakes" and you seems to have to done because you want to finish the challenge as fast as you can.
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Your work is steady in quality but the very first page is the best of all. That means that you can do way better if you put the effort on it.
My general opinion:
I think that you are rushing your work. Working slowly and with the time that the excercise require might be boring but it will make you improve. If you decide when you can do any other lesson you are gonna miss a lot of important points. As I already said you can do way better if put the effort necesary to do it.
You said that: "I made some fundamental mistakes I think, like not hatching enough, not ghosting the hatching lines and not superimposing the outlines for example." and I want to mention that those are not mistakes, that is that you are not trying to follow the instructions correctly. If you skip hatching, that is not mistake, that was a decision. Also the other mistakes you point out are not mistakes they are decisions, your are deciding to not follow the instruction. That only hurt your learning and your grow.
In my experiences this challenge takes about a month with a lot of hard work. Be patient that is the only way you really can benefit from these lessons. One of the hidden reason for the 250 challenge to exist is to create in the student a sense of discipline and patient. Measuring the vanishing several times, trying your best at getting those points right, working in your line quality... etc. All of that build mileage and increase your ability to work on the tedius part of learning art.
Finally, participate in the Discord showing your partial work. In that way you are not going to repeat the same mistakes over and over.
Next Steps:
Do 50 more boxes. Having in mind the following:
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Do them patiently, this should take you some days, or several hours (like 10) of your day.*
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Hatch each of them with care.
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Superimpose the lines that are visible to the viewer. That is add lineweight to those line.
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Draw at most 6 boxes per page.
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Draw bigger boxes.
Also practice your line quality a lot in your warm ups. Remember confidence over accuracy.
*If you ask in the Discord you will find out that 5 boxes take around an hour to be done.